Vielmetter Los Angeles is excited to announce Matthew Lax as Associate Director. Based in New York, Lax will focus on maintaining and expanding client relationships with the gallery’s East Coast audience, while also working closely with our New York based artists. He will continue the gallery’s commitment to world-class art fair presentations and expand the gallery’s visibility across new platforms.

Lax draws from over six years with the gallery and a decade-long experience living in Los Angeles. In this time, he has closely worked with many of the artists who are foundational to Vielmetter’s program. An accomplished filmmaker and writer himself, Lax previously held positions at Princeton University Art Museum, MASS MoCA, and several other galleries, alongside organizing independent curatorial projects.

Lax has long demonstrated a passion for the arts and interdisciplinary community engagement, and is excited to continue championing the rigorous work for which Vielmetter is known.

Vielmetter Los Angeles is thrilled to announce the recent acquisition of Mary Kelly’s Calculus by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN.

Mary Kelly’s conceptual works and pedagogical practice have played an influential role in shaping the discourses of feminism and postmodernism. Through her large-scale narrative installations, Kelly fuses together the personal and the political and investigates how identity and subjectivity are formed. Calculus is the most recent in a three-part series of works, together with Cicatrix and Lacunae, that comprise a larger project titled Addendum, which premiered in 2024 at the Whitney Biennial. The series meditates on the process of aging, drawing attention to unacknowledged and difficult to articulate gaps and losses that accrue with the passage of time. Cicatrix meticulously records the artist’s post-surgical mammography, Lacunae juxtaposes Kelly’s personal calendars with the ages of her deceased friends, and Calculus features over a decade of handwritten notations of Kelly’s blood pressure and pulse measurements. The occasional exclamation is written in red pen in the margins when the data shows alarming fluctuations, and an ominous round scorch mark in the center of the paper progresses throughout the series until it nearly obfuscates the written information, not unlike the progression of an eclipse.

In this work, Kelly has returned to autobiographical narrative and an examination of the intimate artefacts of daily life that made her seminal work, Post-Partum Document (1973-79), so provocative when it was first exhibited.

We want to sincerely thank Executive Director Mary Ceruti and Chief Curator Henriette Huldisch at the Walker Art Center for supporting this significant acquisition.