Frieze Los Angeles 2023
Booth B14
Arlene Shechet & Nicola Tyson
Frieze Los Angeles, Booth B14
February 16 – 19, 2023
For Frieze Los Angeles, Vielmetter Los Angeles will feature a two-person presentation of new works by Arlene Shechet and Nicola Tyson. Drawing from their respective practices in sculpture (Shechet) and drawing (Tyson), both artists have been on the vanguard of formalist experimentation for the past 40 years.
Arlene Shechet’s sculptures are chimeric amalgamations which refer as much to the body as the architecture which contains it. Working in human scale with intimate precision, the sculptures incorporate materials such as steel, wood, and glazed ceramic within compositions that are both discordant and harmonious, seemingly defying logic and gravity.
British-born artist Nicola Tyson’s drawings and paintings upend gender and representation. Termed “psycho- figuration” by the artist, her corporeal forms appear contorted, frozen mid-ritual in a frenzied, pregnant accumulation of graphite. Heavily influenced by her youth in the 1980s London Underground, Tyson’s work embraces an intuitive, expressionist sensitivity.
Together, Shechet and Tyson’s works play off the other, challenging gendered expectations of craft, assemblage and adornment. Tyson’s sparse landscapes and wild embodiments feel grounded by Shechet’s modern totems, which in turn, offer dimensional visions.
Arlene Shechet’s work is currently on view in Disrupt the View at the Harvard Art Museums. Other recent solo exhibitions include T Space and her ambitious commissioned installation, Full Steam Ahead, in Madison Square Park. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Centre Pompidou, among many others.
Nicola Tyson’s work has been exhibited internationally and included in major collections such as Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; The Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C; and Tate Modern, London.
The gallery is located at 1700 S Santa Fe Avenue, south of the 10 freeway. Parking is available on the south parking lot adjacent to the building. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm and by appointment. For further information and press inquiries, please contact Olivia Gauthier at [email protected].
Arlene Shechet “Together Again: Fall,” 2022 Glazed ceramic, powder coated steel 17 ¹⁄₂" x 17" x 14" [HxWxD] (44.45 x 43.18 x 35.56 cm) Inventory #SHE176 Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles Photo credit: David Schulze |
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Arlene Shechet “Moonlit,” 2022 Glazed ceramic, dyed hardwood, steel, and plywood 75" x 35" x 27" [HxWxD] (190.5 x 88.9 x 68.58 cm) Inventory #SHE177 Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles Photo credit: David Schulze |
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Nicola Tyson “Catch,” 2023 Graphite on paper 56" x 45" [HxW] (142.24 x 114.3 cm); 60 ³⁄₄" x 49 ³⁄₄" x 2" [HxWxD] (154.3 x 126.36 x 5.08 cm) framed Inventory #TYS231 Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles Photo credit: Jeff McLane |
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Nicola Tyson “Winged,” 2023 Graphite on paper 56" x 45" [HxW] (142.24 x 114.3 cm); 60 ³⁄₄" x 49 ³⁄₄" x 2" [HxWxD] (154.3 x 126.36 x 5.08 cm) framed Inventory #TYS232 Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles Photo credit: Jeff McLane |
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Nicola Tyson “Lips,” 2023 Graphite on paper 56" x 45" [HxW] (142.24 x 114.3 cm); 60 ³⁄₄" x 49 ³⁄₄" x 2" [HxWxD] (154.3 x 126.36 x 5.08 cm) framed Inventory #TYS259 Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles Photo credit: Jeff McLane |
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Nicola Tyson “Frown,” 2023 Graphite on paper 56" x 45" [HxW] (142.24 x 114.3 cm); 60 ³⁄₄" x 49 ³⁄₄" x 2" [HxWxD] (154.3 x 126.36 x 5.08 cm) framed Inventory #TYS260 Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles Photo credit: Jeff McLane |
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Nicola Tyson “All Eyes,” 2023 Graphite on paper 56" x 45" [HxW] (142.24 x 114.3 cm); 60 ³⁄₄" x 49 ³⁄₄" x 2" [HxWxD] (154.3 x 126.36 x 5.08 cm) framed Inventory #TYS261 Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles Photo credit: Jeff McLane |
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Nicola Tyson “Kissers,” 2023 Graphite on paper 56" x 45" [HxW] (142.24 x 114.3 cm); 60 ³⁄₄" x 49 ³⁄₄" x 2" [HxWxD] (154.3 x 126.36 x 5.08 cm) framed Inventory #TYS262 Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles Photo credit: Jeff McLane |
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Nicola Tyson “Buckle,” 2018 Graphite on paper 74" x 45" [HxW] (187.96 x 114.3 cm) framed; 70" x 41" [HxW] (177.8 x 104.14 cm) paper size Inventory #TYS215 Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles Photo Credit: Downing Frames |
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Nicola Tyson “Woman Crying,” 2018 Graphite on paper 70" x 41" [HxW] (177.8 x 104.14 cm) paper size; 74" x 45" [HxW] (187.96 x 114.3 cm) framed Inventory #TYS216 Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles Photo Credit: Downing Frames |
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