# Frieze Los Angeles 2022 Samuel Levi Jones | Booth C05

URL: https://vielmetter.com/fairs/frieze-la-2022/
February 17 — 20, 2022 · Artists: Samuel Levi Jones

For Frieze Los Angeles 2022, Vielmetter Los Angeles presents a selection of new works by Samuel Levi Jones. Jones’ recent and ongoing series of visual abstractions are comprised of pulped and deconstructed law, medical and history books on canvas. Inspired by questions of authority, representation, and recorded history, Jones’ practice centers on physically undoing these volumes of information, only to re-arrange, re-purpose, and re-imagine the materiality into grid-like fields of color and texture. Jones creates painterly compositions on canvas without the use of paint — desecrated book covers sewn together into collage-like patterns, and infused with swathes of pulp, while loose threads and weathered cardboard binding reveal a process of deconstruction. In the making of these works, Jones critically explores systems of truth-making, exposing our precarious relationship to disseminating knowledge and information. Drawing from specific sources, each piece is imbued with not only the history of the book covers and the subject matter of the book material but also the structures of power which produce and perpetuate inequities throughout the world.