Art Basel OVR:2020
Vielmetter Los Angeles is thrilled to present a selection of new works by gallery artists Edgar Arceneaux, Andrea Bowers, Elizabeth Neel, and Arlene Shechet, all made in 2020. Each of these works has a story that entwines with the artist's larger practice, their core interests and values, and the global pandemic that has so dramatically disrupted the normal flow of objects from studio to exhibition, where they connect with viewers.
Neel's exuberant abstractions were presented in her solo exhibition in Los Angeles, which opened and then immediately moved online only on March 18.
Arlene Shechet's sculpture, intended for the gallery's 20th anniversary exhibition, was unable to travel cross country.
Andrea Bower's cardboard drawing of sycamore branches and an eco-feminist statement relates to the work produced for her solo show at the Museum Abteiberg, tracing the artists work with climate justice activists and her historical research into the movement as it intersects with struggles for indigenous rights, women's rights, and economic issues. The show was similarly interrupted by closures.
Edgar Arceneaux’s “Gaps Between the Steps II”, consists of random, single shoes filled with weeds and branches, burned and mounted on white canvas, evoking the endless march for civil rights, the profound crisis of family separation, as well as entropy in nature and urban degradation.
Elizabeth Neel “Life in Halves 1,” 2019 Acrylic on canvas 97 x 77" [HxW] (246.38 x 195.58 cm) Inventory #NEE234 Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles Photocredit Adam Reich, NY |
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Elizabeth Neel “Life in Halves 2,” 2019 Acrylic on canvas 97 x 77" [HxW] (246.38 x 195.58 cm) Inventory #NEE235 Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles Photocredit Adam Reich, NY |
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Arlene Shechet “Ganesha is a Mountain,” 2020 Glazed ceramic, powder coated steel 68 x 21 x 19" [HxWxD] (172.72 x 53.34 x 48.26 cm) Inventory #SHE161 Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles. © Arlene Shechet Photo credit: Eva Deitch |
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Andrea Bowers “The Tyranny Over Women Is Interlinked to the Oppression of Nature (Ecofeminist Sycamore Branch Series),” 2020 Archival Marker on Cardboard 34.25 x 41 x 3" [HxWxD] (87 x 104.14 x 7.62 cm) Inventory #BOW556 Courtesy of the Artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer |
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Edgar Arceneaux “There Sister,” 2020 Oil and acrylic on paper 24 x 18" [HxW] (60.96 x 45.72 cm) Inventory #ARC621 Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles |
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Edgar Arceneaux “Gaps Between the Steps II,” 2020 Shoe, acrylic paint, sticks, leaves and grass, resin on canvas 23 x 16 x 6" [HxWxD] (58.42 x 40.64 x 15.24 cm) Inventory #ARC622 Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles Photo credit: Jeff Mclane |
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