“The more darkness you can gather up, the more light you can see too.”

Over the past four decades, Korean artist Myoung Ae Lee developed a practice delving into themes of materiality, relationality, and space. Lee’s shaped canvases, currently on view at our LA gallery, challenge the flatness of the surface while preserving its essence. The resulting canvases by Lee interweave the artist’s individuality with the materiality of her medium, imbuing a sense of poetic correspondence. During a conversation at her home-studio in Daejeon, Korea, Lee and I discussed her shaped canvases, her return to academia, and the ongoing process of discovery and revelation at the core of her practice.

For SF Art Week, we've partnered with Evan Kinori to present a weekend exhibition comprising Kinori’s new furniture collection made from sustainably salvaged old-growth redwood; a capsule of naturally dyed garments; and a collection of paintings and sculptures curated by gallery director Rosa Park. William Stout Architectural Books will complement the experience with a selection of rare books, while Stuart Bogie will set the soundscape with a live performance.

Andrea Walsh is hosting a special sale, of pieces available exclusively from her studio, where 10% of sales will be donated to Maggie's cancer care charity.

When Fernando Casasempere moved from Chile to London, in 2007, the first exhibition he saw was Sensation, the famous (and infamous) showcase for the Young British Artists at the Royal Academy. “It made me feel prehistoric,” he says. And little wonder. He’d come from an artistic culture still rooted in modernism, and had an personal aesthetic orientation toward Mesoamerican culture. After studying sculpture in Barcelona and then returning to Santiago, he’d found immediate success, securing major museum exhibitions despite his youth. He felt at once confirmed and confined; it was almost too easy. Casasempere knew that to grow as an artist, he would need to seek out new challenges – and so it was that he came to London, and found himself face-to-face with a shark floating in formaldehyde.

JAMESPLUMB’s Stained Moons, Tender Pray VII, Indigo Bench and For Better For Worse III form part of 'Moments are Monuments', a new exhibition at BY ART MATTERS in Hangzhou, China. The exhibition showcases more than eighty works by twenty-nine artists, including pieces by Anthony Caro, Edmund de Waal, Rachel Whiteread and JAMESPLUMB. The exhibition aims to highlight the importance of small, individual moments within the relentless flow of life as well as how ordinary objects can be imbued with significance and transferred into ‘monuments’. Consisting of eight ‘chapters’ corresponding to a different theme; each room of the exhibition offers audiences a different starting point for reflection.

Artist Statement: Contemplating our external environment is integral to my practice, but the results are not mimetic. Rather, my work strives to create an artistic language that transcends a singular context, place or time, speaking instead to the shared, universal essence of everything that surrounds us.

Through the implementation of repeated lines and forms, these works draw a parallel between nature’s capacity to generate myriad variations of the same object — like raindrops or leaves on a tree — and our fabricated setting, characterised by duplicate grids, structures, and intersections. This exploration extends to material and spatial considerations, where fullness is interspersed with the void; where the interval is as essential as the structures that define it.

Ekun Richard has created a playlist to accompany his solo show, at the end of the hill we climb, at Francis Gallery.

We are delighted to invite you to our LA gallery for a conversation with Aram Saroyan and Michael Ned Holte, as part of our current exhibition, Writing with Colors.

As part of Aram Saroyan’s solo exhibition, Writing with Colors, we're hosting a drawing workshop with the artist & Woset at our LA gallery.