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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.
“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
“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
“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
“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
Arlene Shechet’s sculpture, intended for the gallery’s 20th anniversary exhibition, was unable to travel cross country.
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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.
“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
“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
“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
“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
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.
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
