VIP Preview: Thursday, April 9, 2026
Public Days: Friday, April 10 – Sunday, April 12, 2026

Vielmetter Los Angeles is excited to announce our two-person presentation of works by Samuel Levi Jones and Patrick Wilson for the 2026 iteration of Expo Chicago.

Both artists approach abstraction from their own distinct perspectives, resulting in a cross-disciplinary dialogue that explores various modes and methodologies of constructing an image.

Samuel Levi Jones deconstructs and reconstitutes found legal, medical, and historical texts into layered compositions that grapple with questions of authority, representation, and recorded history. The resulting works consist of disassembled book covers sewn together and interspersed with pulped paper, producing surfaces that digest and transform their source material into grid-like fields of color and texture. Jones’s practice centers on physically undoing volumes of information, probing the existing power structures and struggles of exclusion and equality, and finally, reimagining their material components into painterly abstractions.

Patrick Wilson creates hard-edge paintings that reflect seductive improvisations on radiant color and meticulous structure. In lineage with John McLaughlin, Fred Hammersley, and Karl Benjamin, he incorporates a fascination with the history of California hard-edge painting, light and space, and fetish finish into intensely colorful paintings of varying planes and opacities through fastidiously applied layers of acrylic paint. Over the past twenty years, Wilson’s works have continued to evolve with complexity and finesse through a consistently immaculate process of creating super-flat surfaces that seem at once both solid and transparent.

Samuel Levi Jones was born and raised in Marion, Indiana, and he lives and works in Indianapolis, Indiana. Trained as a photographer and multidisciplinary artist, he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies from Taylor University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Herron School of Art and Design in 2009. He received his Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art from Mills College in 2012.

Museum exhibitions include Bold: New Voices in Contemporary Art Center at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, IN; When You See Me: Visibility in Contemporary Art/History at The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Unruly Navigations at The Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA; The Empire is Falling at The Contemporary Dayton, Dayton, OH; Left of Center at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, IN; Infinite Blue at the Brooklyn Museum, NY; Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Guiffrida Collection at the Smart Museum at the University of Chicago, IL; and Unbound, Studio Museum in Harlem, NY.

His work can be found in museum and public collections such as the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Wisconsin; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. He is the recipient of the 2014 Joyce Alexander Wein artist prize awarded by the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Patrick Wilson was born in 1970 in Redding, CA and lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of California, Davis in 1993 and his Master of Fine Arts degree at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, CA in 1995.

Wilson has had numerous solo exhibitions such as Field Sketch, Vielmetter Los Angeles, CA; Patrick Wilson, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York; Keeping Time, Vielmetter Los Angeles, CA; Evolving Geometries: Line, Form, and Color, Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA; and Patrick Wilson: Pull, University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA. Recent group exhibitions include FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANONYMOUS at the North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND; Latest and Greatest: New Work at The Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Pivotal: Highlights from the Collection, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; On the Road: American Abstraction, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI; Geometrix: Line, Form, Subversion, Curator’s Office, Washington, D.C.; California Visual Music – Three Generations of Abstraction, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA; 2010 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Keeping it Straight: Right Angles and Hard Edges in Contemporary Southern California, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA; and Gyroscope, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC.

His work is included in such permanent collections as the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; and the San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA.