Visit 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.