Hélio Melo, Untitled, 1989
Indian ink and leaf extract on material, 141.5 cm × 144.5 cm. Introduced by Almeida & Dale. $POA
A polymath and self-taught artist, Hélio Melo made work impressed by on a regular basis life within the Amazonian state of Acre the place he was born. His quiet, detailed scenes in subdued palettes depict the rituals of rubber tapping and its extraction by communities within the forests. They’re a file of place and time, in addition to an evocation of the Amazonian imaginary.
Hadi Falapishi, Skilled Painter in a Tree on the Sixteenth of September, 2024
Oil on canvas in walnut artist’s body, 66 × 54.6 × 5.1 cm. Introduced by Blum. $20k – $50k
Hadi Falapishi’s playful, intelligent, photorealistic portray is a self-portrait which fashions himself right into a René Magritte panorama.
Michael Alvarez, Have a look at This {Photograph} 3, 2022
Oil, spray paint, pencil, 3D-printed sculpture, collage on paper, canvas and wooden on panel, 76.2 × 101.6 cm. Introduced by Jeffrey Deitch. $15,000
Michael Alvarez’s charming work recreate pages from old school picture albums which might be as a lot about portraiture and reminiscences as they’re concerning the rituals of how we protect them. His artwork has a means of resonating with the deeply nostalgic, particularly for anybody who grew up in Los Angeles within the Nineteen Eighties and ’90s, depicting notable household and childhood occasions, the yearly customized of taking college photos within the pre-digital period. His painterly model hovers between illustration and impressionistic, using blurring strategies and doubled photographs in addition to collage and spray paint.
Megumi Yuasa, Espássaro, 1995
Glazed ceramics, iron, metal and aluminium 219 × 55 × 17 cm. Introduced by Gomide & Co. / Ortuzar. $100k – $250k
It’s revelatory to get to know the work of Japanese-Brazilian sculptor and ceramicist Megumi Yuasa, who has been working as an artist for the reason that mid-Nineteen Sixties. Due to the joint presentation of Gomide & Co. and Ortuzar, Los Angeles audiences have the chance to see the work shut up. Yuasa’s imagined landscapes – product of ceramic, metallic and oxides, and referencing timber, clouds and so-called espássaros – take Brazilian sculpture into new dimensions.
Lee ShinJa, Dialog between Circles IV, 1973
Cotton, linen thread, tapestry, 177 × 112 cm. Introduced by Tina Kim Gallery. $100k – $250k
It has been exhilarating getting a glimpse into the work of the pioneering first-generation Korean fibre artist Lee ShinJa who Tina Kim Gallery has been representing of late. Demonstrating the worldwide attain of fibre artwork, Lee’s work is a window into the little-known context of its developments in Korea, and extra typically in East Asia. Lee’s Dialog between Circles collection of the Seventies is tied to a really private and non secular journey for the artist bringing the transcendental into the act of constructing.
Alison Saar, Mutiny of the Sable Venus, 2024
Woodcut on classic seed sacks, 160 x 99.1 cm. Introduced by L.A. Louver. $12,000
Alison Saar’s model of the Sable Venus, remodeling the 18th century pro-slavery propaganda imagery right into a determine of defiance and resilience. Mutiny of the Sable Venus is a tribute to slave revolts and channels the spirit of Yemaya, a water deity from the African diaspora.
About Clara Kim
Clara Kim is chief curator and director of curatorial affairs on the Museum of Modern Artwork, LA, a place she has held since September 2022. Previous to MOCA, Kim was Daskalopoulos senior curator of worldwide artwork at Tate Fashionable in London. Current curatorial tasks embrace ‘Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Delivery of Freedom’ (MOCA 2024; Guggenheim Bilbao 2024–25; Museum of Modern Artwork, Chicago 2025), ‘Steve McQueen’ (Tate Fashionable 2020; Hangar Bicocca, Milan 2022); 2019 Hyundai Fee ‘Kara Walker: Fons Americanus’ (Tate Fashionable 2019–21). She sits on the Board of CIMAM and served because the chair of the 2024 Annual CIMAM Convention in Los Angeles titled ‘Sustainable Futures: How? When? For Whom?’.
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Major picture: Michael Alvarez, Have a look at This {Photograph} 3, 2022. Oil, spray paint, pencil, 3D-printed sculpture, collage on paper, canvas and wooden on panel, 76.2 × 101.6 cm. Courtesy: Deitch
