"The incognito images, ironically, compel you to come face to face with the subjects that stipple Sepuya’s life. His manner of disclosing who they are is intentionally as overt as it is subtle. “The thing that I’m intrigued about is intimacy. They are not anonymous if you know them,” the Los Angeles-based artist says, mentioning the familiarity of a tattoo, a gesture. “It is about positioning the viewer along that boundary of recognition or not knowing.”'

By Jonathan Kendall – 3 April 2020

"There is something wildly provocative and beautifully defiant about the work of LA-based artist Genevieve Gaignard. Whether it is posing in somewhat satirical photographic self-portraiture or composing mixed-media installations of contrasting realities, Genevieve's work explores race, class, and femininity with a humorous, pop appeal." ⁠

By Krystal Owens – March 2020

"In what now looks like a very prescient work, Kahn offers a vaguely post-apocalyptic vision of Los Angeles and the mountains that surround it. It is a world without dialog and inhabited solely by teens and tweens. As the film unfolds a narrative of sorts takes shape. Backpacks are hastily packed. Two teenage boys traverse an urban landscape (whether they’re running from something or to something is never explained). As they continue their journey, the landscape slowly transforms from concrete to open grassland and then to an epic wilderness. Civilization eventually recedes and the earth’s natural landscape takes center stage."

By Jeff Regensburger – 23 March 2020

Dear Friends,

We would like to invite you to use a new online service which we have created in response to the current times.

The link below will take you to private online viewing rooms for our current exhibitions by Elizabeth Neel and Paul Mpagi Sepuya. If you access these online spaces during gallery hours, you will be able to chat in real time with our staff!

We look forward to seeing you there.

Dear Friends,

In response to the rapidly changing public health crisis we have made the difficult but necessary decision to temporarily close the gallery to the general public as of tomorrow, March 14. Our exhibitions by Elizabeth Neel and Paul Mpagi Sepuya will be open by appointment only. To arrange for a viewing please call or email the gallery at [email protected].

All gallery operations will continue remotely and our exhibitions are viewable on the gallery webpage and via social media. Our staff will continue to be available during normal gallery hours to help you with questions - we can be best reached via email as listed on the gallery webpage. In the next few days we will prepare images and digital tours of our beautiful exhibitions by Elizabeth Neel and Paul Mpagi Sepuya. We look very much forward to staying in touch and to hear your response via email, phone or text and we hope to celebrate the artists with you at a later date.

We will continue to evaluate and update you as the situation changes. In the meantime, we thank you for your support during these challenging times and wish you and your loved ones good health and we look forward to welcoming you back to the gallery again soon.

Best wishes,

Susanne Vielmetter and the Team at Vielmetter Los Angeles

"The densely detailed, intensely chromatic landscape views in Reflections on the Anthropocene are political, semiotic, assertively symbolic and narrative works whose deliberate citations of art history serve as the structures on which to hang not only a discourse of aesthetic agency and modern styles but an incisive commentary on humanity’s oppressive, fetishized, destructive imperialism toward nature."

By Shana Nys Dambrot – March 2020

"Is this the cruelest optimism of all? That we can forever amble happily toward the ever-receding horizon of progress? For a lucky few, the horizon no longer glimmers in the distance, and they make do in the dark. For most of us, the sun still winks from the great beyond, drawing us ever closer to the brink."

By Christina Catherine Martinez – March 2020

Vielmetter Los Angeles congratulates Edgar Arceneaux on his solo exhibition at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montreal (April 9–June 14, 2020), presenting two works by the artist: the video installation Until, Until, Until… (2015-2017) and the sculptural environment The Library of Black Lies (2016). Curated by Lesley Johnstone.

Vielmetter Los Angeles congratulates Nicole Eisenman on Sturm und Drang, a solo exhibition at The Contemporary Austin–Jones Center and The Contemporary Austin–Laguna Gloria (February 27–August, 16 2020).

Encompassing a wide range of media including drawing, painting, and sculpture, this exhibition focuses on the artist’s anti-monumental and enigmatic three-dimensional work, and will be accompanied by a full-color catalogue.

"And in a time where black art is being celebrated, Gaignard emphasized that 'we’re more than just a moment. We’re actually completing the dialogue or the conversation because we’ve been excluded for so long. It’s hard for the majority to process that. We have to make very straightforward statements sometimes.'"

By Makeda Easter – 14 February 2020

"As the art world turns its eyes to the West Coast for the second edition of Frieze Los Angeles—held at Paramount Pictures Studios, February 13–16—make sure to save some time after the fair for these shows across the city.

Drawing on the history of “view paintings” made by artists before the dawn of photography, Whitney Bedford’s “Veduta” series aim to illustrate the effects that mankind has had on the natural landscape. It’s a savvy way of using art history to underscore the unavoidable reality of climate change."

By Sarah Cascone – 10 February 2020

Vielmetter Los Angeles congratulates Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley on their appointment as the Keith L. and Kathy Sachs Visiting Professors in the Department of Fine Arts for the 2019 – 2020 Academic Year at The University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. Mary and Pat will work with graduate students and will give a public lecture at Penn’s Institute of Contemporary Art in Spring 2020.

Sadie Benning, Nicole Eisenman, Rodney McMillian, Pope.L, and Paul Mpagi Sepuya are included in the exhibition The Foundation of the Museum: MOCA's Collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles (May 19, 2019 - Jan 27, 2020). The exhibition is organized by Bennett Simpson, Senior Curator, with Rebecca Lowery, Assistant Curator, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.