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diedrick brackens
tenderfeet September 21 - October 26, 2024 Dallas Various Small Fires proudly presents tenderfeet, a solo exhibition of new work by diedrick brackens that marks a homecoming for the Texan-born artist. Four new weavings are on display alongside wearable textile pieces, a new exploration in brackens’ practice. Altogether, the body of work bolsters the artist’s ongoing interest in... Read more -
Sarah Ippolito
Liquid Realm September 14 - October 19, 2024 Los Angeles The ocean is what makes the earth habitable, without the ocean life is not possible, “in a way we’re all sea creatures” - Sylvia Earle VSF LA announces Liquid Realm, new sculptures by Sarah Ippolito (b. 1986 Houston, TX). Los Angeles-based Ippolito’s exuberantly biomorphic sculptures are inspired by time... Read more -
The Harrison Studio
Survival Piece #1: Air, Earth, Water, Interface: Annual Hog Pasture Mix, 1970-1971 September 14 - October 19, 2024 Los Angeles This September VSF is excited to present The Harrisons’ Survival Piece #1: Air, Earth, Water, Interface: Annual Hog Pasture Mix, 1970-1971 in alignment with PST: Art & Science Collide. The first in their visionary series of Survival Pieces, “Hog Pasture,” as it is known by Harrison’s fans, emerged from a... Read more -
Alex Foxton
Sebastian August 31 - October 19, 2024 Seoul VSF Seoul is pleased to announce Sebastian, Alex Foxton’s (b. 1980, England) first solo exhibition in Asia. Foxton’s elegant and boldly colored paintings have captured the attention of an international audience. Engaging with the complexity and ambiguity of masculine archetypes, Foxton mines familiar figures - soldiers, sailors, cowboys, saints, and... Read more -
Antonio Lechuga
Street Views July 27 - August 31, 2024 Dallas Various Small Fires is pleased to present Street Views, a solo presentation by Dallas-based artist Antonio Lechuga. In this recent body of work, Lechuga extends his use of cobijas, or Mexican fleece blankets, to sew compositions that reflect on ideas of community, care, and invisible labor. Lechuga’s interest in cobijas... Read more -
Color Fields
Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola | Huh Myoungwook July 13 - August 24, 2024 Seoul Night Gallery and Various Small Fires (VSF), Seoul are delighted to present Color Fields, a two-person exhibition by New York-based Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola and Seoul-based Huh Myoungwook. This will be Akinbola’s first presentation in Korea, on view at VSF, Seoul. These artists are united in their material explorations of the... Read more -
Sublunary
Jackie Castillo | Mercedes Dorame | Lizette Hernández | Esteban Ramón Pérez | Lily Ramírez June 29 - August 17, 2024 Los Angeles Various Small Fires is elated to announce the opening of Sublunary, a group presentation in the main gallery of our Los Angeles location examining Southern California’s transcendent natural terrain and dynamic social ecology. The exhibition unites the works of five artists: Jackie Castillo, Mercedes Dorame, Lizette Hernández, Esteban Ramón Pérez,... Read more -
Kelly Wall
Time After Time June 29 - August 17, 2024 Los Angeles Los Angeles is a city of fantasy and illusion - a place where nostalgia is currency and product. Kelly Wall’s cheeky sculptural practice engages both earnestly and ironically with this manufactured emotion. Wall has created a series of works for VSF’s courtyard that draw on that ultimate backyard icon: The... Read more -
Linnéa Gabriella Spransy
Againing June 29 - August 17, 2024 Los Angeles In our smaller gallery, Los Angeles-based artist Linnéa Gabriella Spransy presents recent paintings and drawings that articulate the interrelation of destruction, transformation and discovery. Spransy works in two primary, divergent media - intricate, art-deco inspired, large-scale figurative drawings in pastel on paper; and mathematical, procedurally determined abstraction in acrylic on... Read more -
Ben Thorp Brown
Cura June 29 - August 17, 2024 Los Angeles In &Milk, recent Guggenheim Fellow, Ben Thorp Brown presents new work in sculpture, photography, and his 2019 video, Cura, filmed in the Neutra VDL House II on the Silver Lake Reservoir. Produced with support from the Jeu de Paume, Paris; CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux; and Museo Amparo, Puebla;... Read more -
Lumin Wakoa
The Unnaming June 8 - July 6, 2024 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present Lumin Wakoa’s first Asia solo presentation, The Unnaming. This the artist’s second collaborative project with the gallery after her solo exhibition at VSF Los Angeles. As a child in northern Florida, Wakoa often sat with her father on their front porch. 'Let’s see,'... Read more -
Antonius-Tín Bui
How we envy the river, its boneless I June 1 - July 13, 2024 Dallas VSF Texas is pleased to present How we envy the river, its boneless I, a solo exhibition of new works by Vietnamese-American artist, Antonius-Tín Bui. Inspired by poetry, Bui’s intricate hand-cut paper portraits employ beauty to create refuge and liberation for fellow members of marginalized communities. Born in the Bronx,... Read more -
Wendy Park
Cerritos, California May 4 - June 1, 2024 Seoul Various Small Fires is delighted to announce the solo presentation of Wendy Park’s second solo exhibition with the gallery in Cerritos, California. This will be Park’s first solo exhibition in Asia. This collection of new works explores Park’s childhood in Cerritos, a suburb of Los Angeles, California, where the artist... Read more -
Brandon Ballengée
Call of the Void April 27 - June 15, 2024 Los Angeles VSF presents Call of the Void, our first solo exhibition with Louisiana-based visual artist, biologist, and environmental educator, Brandon Ballengée. Following group exhibitions with his mentors, Helen and Newton Harrison at VSF LA and Frieze LA, this exhibition will highlight the breadth of the artist’s elegant and rich transdisciplinary practice.... Read more -
Elisa Jensen
Heart Off Guard April 27 - June 15, 2024 Los Angeles VSF is pleased to announce a solo project by Elisa Jensen (b. 1965) in & Milk opening on April 27, 2024. Heart Off Guard brings together a selection of Jensen’s paintings made between 2008 and the present. The title of the exhibition is lifted from a poem by Seamus Heaney... Read more -
Joshua Nathanson
Yeah, I Know What You Mean April 3 - May 25, 2024 Dallas It is the gallery’s distinct pleasure to present Yeah, I Know What You Mean, a solo presentation of new work by Joshua Nathanson. In the Los Angeles artist’s fourth exhibition with VSF, Nathanson portrays scenes of the everyday through a lens that bridges art history to contemporary modes of making.... Read more -
Glen Wilson
Meridian Dub March 23 - April 27, 2024 Seoul With pleasure, VSF Seoul presents Glen Wilson’s first solo exhibition in Asia, Meridian Dub. Wilson is a Los Angeles-based artist, whose practice is rooted in a pocket of Venice Beach, California known locally as Oakwood, just blocks from the water where Wilson has made his home for many years. In... Read more -
A'Driane Nieves
self-evident truths February 27 - April 13, 2024 Los Angeles We are pleased to announce A’Driane Nieves’ debut exhibition at VSF, self-evident truths. Combining paintings on canvas and paper with new explorations in neon and audio installation, this ambitious exhibition is also Nieves’ first on the West Coast. Nieves’ dynamic gestural abstractions extend from a writing practice and the therapeutic... Read more -
Reclamation
Ari Brielle | Zoë Buckman | Cynthia Mulcahy February 24 - March 30, 2024 Dallas Various Small Fires is proud to present Reclamation , a group exhibition featuring Ari Brielle (Dallas), Zoë Buckman (London/New York), and Cynthia Mulcahy (Dallas). Presented at VSF Texas, the exhibition is borne out of the ever-urgent conversations surrounding access to reproductive and gynecological care in the state and beyond. The... Read more -
Jessie Homer French
Normal Landscapes January 13 - February 17, 2024 Los Angeles Various Small Fires is thrilled to announce the opening of Jessie Homer French’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. Following her inclusion in the 49th Venice Biennale and the Hammer Museum’s acclaimed Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living Biennial, Normal Landscapes presents a collection of anti-pastoral paintings that playfully... Read more -
Will Gabaldón
Winter will crave what is gone January 13 - February 17, 2024 Dallas Various Small Fires is elated to present Will Gabaldón’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Winter will crave what is gone follows exhibitions in Los Angeles and Seoul and marks the artist’s first presentation in Texas. The exhibition features new paintings made in the fall of 2023 and continues the... Read more -
Samantha Bittman
On Pattern January 13 - March 2, 2024 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present Samantha Bittman: On Pattern, the New York-based artist’s first solo exhibition in Seoul. Following Shaping Color, an exhibition curated by Diedrick Brackens in our Los Angeles Gallery, this is Bittman’s second collaboration with VSF. Over the last fifteen years, Samantha Bittman has developed... Read more -
Dyani White Hawk
Reflection November 18, 2023 - January 6, 2024 Los Angeles VSF is proud to announce Reflection, our first solo exhibition with Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota, b. 1976, Madison, Wisconsin, works in Minneapolis, Minnesota) in Los Angeles. The exhibition follows our two-person presentation of work by Diedrick Brackens and White Hawk at Frieze LA earlier this year. White Hawk’s abstract... Read more -
Alina Perez
The Turquoise Room November 4 - December 23, 2023 Dallas Various Small Fires proudly presents The Turquoise Room, an exhibition of new drawings by Alina Perez. This is the artist’s first presentation with the gallery and first time to exhibit in Texas. In this body of work, Perez depicts a series of dreamlike tableaux that delicately unfolds as an inquisition... Read more -
Alvin Ong
In My Head October 28 - December 23, 2023 Seoul Various Small Fires proudly presents In My Head, a solo exhibition by Alvin Ong, marking the artist's Seoul debut and first exhibition with the gallery. One of the most exciting young figurative painters in Asia, Ong is known for his intimate paintings that capture quotidian moments in surreal bodily compositions,... Read more -
Sara Anstis
The Petal and the Wrist September 23 - November 4, 2023 Los Angeles Various Small Fires is excited to announce the gallery’s second solo exhibition with Sara Anstis, and her first exhibition in Los Angeles: The Petal and the Wrist. Anstis is a world builder and storyteller. On paper, canvas, and in writing, she weaves an auto-fiction that explores the resistance and power... Read more -
Che Lovelace
Nightscapes with Palms and Egrets September 9 - October 28, 2023 Dallas Various Small Fires proudly presents the Texas debut solo exhibition by Trinidad-based artist Che Lovelace. Nightscapes with Palms and Egrets poetically advances Lovelace’s practice that celebrates the artist’s homeland and hones in on the island’s lush flora and fauna. Utilizing a palette of rich colors and compositions with abstracted forms,... Read more -
Nikki S. Lee
Parts: Revisited September 5 - October 14, 2023 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present an intimate historical survey of Nikki S. Lee’s iconic Parts series. This exhibition marks the artist’s second with the gallery and Lee’s first presentation of the Parts series in her hometown of Seoul, South Korea. Nikki S. Lee’s Parts, shot in New York... Read more -
Shaping Color | Curated by Diedrick Brackens
Zalika Azim | Oliver Strand | Sarah Crowner | Samatha Bittman | Donald Moffett | Bakari Akinyele August 12 - September 16, 2023 Los Angeles Various Small Fires Los Angeles is pleased to announce the opening of a group show curated by Los Angeles-based textile artist Diedrick Brackens on August 12, 2023. The exhibition Shaping Color brings together six artists to explore the relationships between color and process in their respective practices. Many works in... Read more -
Mark Yang
Spectral Echoes July 15 - September 2, 2023 Dallas Various Small Fires is pleased to present Mark Yang’s second solo exhibition with the gallery and the artist’s first presentation in Texas. In Spectral Echoes, the Seoul-born, New York-based artist expands on previous works while embracing a fresh approach to his exploration of the human form. Yang creates bold compositions... Read more -
Jose Bonell
Some Stories July 1 - 29, 2023 Los Angeles Various Small Fires (VSF) is pleased to introduce Some Stories, a solo exhibition of oil paintings by Barcelona-based, Catalonian artist Jose Bonell in the Los Angeles gallery’s And Milk project space. Bonell unveils a body of work that bridges the barrier between two seemingly disconnected worlds – the... Read more -
Billy Al Bengston
Sorta Memorial July 1 - 29, 2023 Los Angeles Various Small Fires Los Angeles will host a “sorta” memorial and exhibition of works by Billy Al Bengston (b. 1934 – d. 2022) opening July 1, 2023. Featuring an abundant feast of Bengston’s circa 1980’s Kahuna and Pa’ Pepa watercolor collages and paintings surrounding the artist’s 1971 installation Lumberjack Luncheon,... Read more -
Alex Becerra
Prelude to Understanding June 17 - August 19, 2023 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present Los Angeles-based artist Alex Becerra’s debut presentation in Asia titled Prelude to Understanding. This is the second solo exhibition with the gallery. Becerra approaches painting with the aim to summon embodied responses, enrolling the viewer in an experience that links vision... Read more -
Madeline Donahue
ART HOUSE June 3 - July 8, 2023 Dallas Various Small Fires presents a solo exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Brooklyn-based artist Madeline Donahue. ART HOUSE expands on the artist’s practice that centers on her experiences of pregnancy, birth, motherhood and owning a postpartum body. Donahue utilizes personal experience to portray the wide-ranging facets of... Read more -
Alex Foxton
Trade May 13 - June 24, 2023 Los Angeles Opening Reception Saturday May 13, 6-8pm Various Small Fires is honored to present the debut West Coast solo exhibition of Paris-based artist Alex Foxton. Trade features new paintings and works on paper that draw the English-born artist’s investigation of cultural symbolism and masculinity into a more intimate, personal realm. In... Read more -
Lumin Wakoa
Greenhouse May 13 - June 24, 2023 Los Angeles Opening Reception Saturday May 13, 6-8pm Various Small Fires is pleased to introduce Brooklyn-based artist Lumin Wakoa in her first solo presentation with the gallery. Greenhouse unveils a collection of eight new paintings, following her participation in Frieze Los Angeles’ Online Viewing Room at VSF LA in February 2023. In... Read more -
Dew Kim
I Surrender April 29 - June 10, 2023 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present Seoul-based artist Dew Kim’s solo exhibition, I Surrender in its Seoul location. Featuring seven all-new works, the artist addresses issues of sexuality, queerness, BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadism, masochism), and religion through a variety of sculptural languages. The presentation is a continuous exploration of... Read more -
Caitlin Lonegan
O Nobile Viridity April 21 - May 27, 2023 Dallas Various Small Fires is proud to present O Nobile Viridity by Los Angeles-based artist Caitlin Lonegan. Her first show with the gallery and on view in Dallas, the exhibition features all new paintings continuing the artist’s ongoing interrogation of the potential to communicate through abstract painting. The title of the... Read more -
Michael Hilsman
Man In Water March 25 - April 29, 2023 Los Angeles Various Small Fires is pleased to introduce a solo show of new works by Los Angeles-based artist Michael Hilsman. Comprising large and small scale oil paintings, Man In Water is Hilsman's first solo show with the gallery, following his participation in Frieze Los Angeles' Online Viewing Room at VSF LA... Read more -
Kyungmi Shin
Monster's appetite March 4 - April 15, 2023 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present Kyungmi Shin’s solo exhibition in Seoul, featuring all new photographic collage paintings. This will mark the artist’s first solo presentation in Asia and her second with the gallery. Originally trained as a sculptor, Shin's current practice is inspired by black-and-white vintage photographs from... Read more -
Mie Olise Kjærgaard
Toward Infinity and Beyond February 25 - April 8, 2023 Dallas Various Small Fires is proud to present Copenhagen-based artist Mie Olise Kjærgaard in her first solo presentation with the gallery. Mie Olise Kjærgaard (b. 1974 in Denmark, lives and works in Copenhagen and New York) works in painting, sculptural objects and installation. Read more -
Jammie Holmes
Somewhereinamerica February 14 - March 11, 2023 Los Angeles Various Small Fires is pleased to introduce a solo show of new works by Dallas-based artist Jammie Holmes. Somewhereinamerica includes paintings, sculptures, and watercolors and is Holmes' first show with Various Small Fires. Jammie Holmes, a self-taught artist, illuminates themes of community, tradition, class, authenticity, resilience, and the... Read more -
John Riepenhoff
Scene Painters' Almanac January 14 - February 18, 2023 Dallas Various Small Fires is pleased to introduce a new collection of paintings by Milwaukee-based artist John Riepenhoff. Scene Painters’ Almanac is Riepenhoff’s first solo exhibition in Texas and presents the culmination of recent painting sessions that began en plein air. Riepenhoff is the co-founder and director of The Green Gallery... Read more -
John Miller
Imaginary Interventions January 7 - February 25, 2023 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present Imaginary Interventions by American artist John Miller (b. 1954, Cleveland, Ohio). This exhibition of nine new works on canvas plus a vinyl wall graphic will mark the artist’s first solo presentation in Seoul. As an artist, writer, curator, and musician, Miller consistently takes... Read more -
Sean Landers
Animal Portraits November 19, 2022 - January 7, 2023 Dallas Various Small Fires is proud to present an exhibition of new paintings by New York artist Sean Landers. On view in Dallas, Animal Portraits is the artist’s first solo presentation in Texas. Over the course of an illustrious career, Landers has made work that meditates on the artist’s existential struggles.... Read more -
Lily Wong
I Will Wade Out November 12, 2022 - January 21, 2023 Los Angeles Various Small Fires is pleased to present I Will Wade Out, a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Lily Wong. The exhibition of new works on paper is the artist’s first solo show on the West Coast. In her latest body of work, Wong reflects on seeking ancestral and spiritual connectivity... Read more -
Donghoon Rhee
Woman November 12, 2022 - January 21, 2023 Los Angeles Various Small Fires is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Korean artist Donghoon Rhee at its 'and Milk' project space. The presentation of new wooden sculptures and paintings marks the artist’s international debut and first show with the gallery. Rhee’s practice mainly revolves around capturing gestural movement by chiseling... Read more -
VSF Sound Program by Szu-Han Ho
The suffering pond November 12, 2022 - January 21, 2023 Los Angeles Opens Saturday November 12, 2022 in conjunction with Lily Wong, I Will Wade Out and Donghoon Rhee, Woman The suffering pond is constructed from found frequencies inspired by stories of anti-colonial resistance in Taiwan. Like objects stacked to form a street barricade, the sounds in this piece are stacked to... Read more -
Mark Yang
Lucid Dream
Frieze No. 9 Cork St. London November 11 - 26, 2022 Various Small Fires presents an exhibition of new paintings by American painter, Mark Yang, at No. 9 Cork Street, London, on view from Saturday, November 12th until November 26th, with an opening reception on Friday, November 11th from 6 until 8 pm. The exhibition, Lucid Dream, represents the artist’s first... Read more -
Will Gabaldón
All out beyond horizon October 29 - December 23, 2022 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present Chicago-based artist Will Gabaldón’s debut presentation in Asia. All out beyond horizon, the artist’s second solo exhibition with VSF, will showcase twelve new landscape paintings drawn from both real life and memory. The pastoral scenes are simultaneous representations of real places and manifestations... Read more -
Kohshin Finley
Eight Artworks October 8 - November 12, 2022 Dallas Various Small Fires proudly presents Eight Artworks by Los Angeles-based artist Kohshin Finley at its Texas gallery. The exhibition of recent paintings is the artist’s first solo presentation with the gallery and in the American South. Eight Artworks features portraits of significant people from the artist’s community, including... Read more -
Alex Becerra
Descarga Heavy September 24 - October 29, 2022 Los Angeles Various Small Fires (VSF) is pleased to present Descarga Heavy, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Alex Becerra at the gallery’s Los Angeles location. This is Becerra’s first solo presentation as a VSF-represented artist. Descarga Heavy–Spanish slang for a music jam session–encapsulates the exhibition ethos: a rhythmic constellation of... Read more -
Diedrick Brackens
together our shadows make a single belly September 1 - October 15, 2022 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present Texas-native Diedrick Brackens’ debut solo exhibition in Asia, together our shadows make a single belly. In a series of four new works, Brackens offers woven tapestries dense with analogy and narrative. For his solo exhibition in Seoul, Brackens expands his exploration of silhouetted... Read more -
Glen Wilson
Shelter in Place August 26 - October 1, 2022 Dallas Various Small Fires proudly presents Shelter In Place, a solo exhibition of new sculptural objects by Glen Wilson at the gallery’s Texas location. The exhibition expands on the themes, methods, and visual language that have been central to Wilson’s practice in recent years, manifesting contemplations of place and home. A... Read more -
Wendy Park
OFF THE CLOCK August 6 - September 10, 2022 Los Angeles Various Small Fires (VSF) is pleased to present OFF THE CLOCK, a solo exhibition of new work by Wendy Park at the gallery’s Los Angeles location. The exhibition brings together ten paintings and debuts an augmented reality experience (AR) that investigates and reconstructs Park’s childhood memories of growing up as... Read more -
The Harrison Studio
DMZ: A Bioregional Transformation July 9 - August 20, 2022 Seoul Various Small Fires Seoul proudly presents DMZ: A Bioregional Transformation, a solo exhibition that revisits The Harrison Studio's 2021 research on the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone), which is located on the border between North and South Korea. Their work uncovered that the area had become the most ecologically rich nature reserve... Read more -
Jessie Homer French
Roots June 30 - August 13, 2022 Dallas Various Small Fires is proud to present Roots by Jessie Homer French. The exhibition of new paintings is the regional narrative painter’s fourth solo exhibition with VSF and first at the gallery’s Texas location. Mostly executed during the pandemic, a series of six new paintings paying homage to the United... Read more -
Eco-art Work: 11 Artists from 8 Countries | Curated by Newton Harrison
Salma Arastu | Brandon Ballengée | Barbara Benish | Nathalie Blanc | Tim Collins & Reiko Goto | Edgar Cruz | The Harrison Studio | Jorgge Menna Baretto | Aviva Rahmani | Åsa Sonjasdotter | Ruth Wallen | Yangkura June 25 - July 30, 2022 Los Angeles Various Small Fires proudly presents Eco-art Work: 11 Artists from 8 Countries, a group show curated by the legendary founders of the Ecological Art Movement and gallery artist Newton Harrison (b.1940) of The Harrison Studio, an esteemed collaborative endeavor with his late wife Helen Mayer Harrison (1927-2018). This exhibition brings... Read more -
Texan: Part II
Diedrick Brackens | Xavier Cha | Hayden Dunham | Baseera Khan | Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo) | Sarah Zapata May 28 - June 25, 2022 Dallas Various Small Fires proudly presents Part II of its inaugural exhibition at VSF Texas. Texan celebrates the rich contributions Texas-born artists offer to the contemporary art landscape and provides a homecoming for many of the exhibition's diasporic Texans. While claiming one’s Texan heritage can incite complicated feelings, the exhibition presents... Read more -
Christian Quin Newell
Siena May 21 - June 18, 2022 Los Angeles Various Small Fires is pleased to present Christian Quin Newell’s debut solo exhibition in Los Angeles, and in the United States. Newell’s new works invite us to explore his mysterious, internal world. Loose gestures and a slightly flattened or warped painterly space depict a landscape out of time, part chess... Read more -
Amelia Lockwood
Eighth Lane May 14 - August 27, 2022 Los Angeles Various Small Fires is pleased to present Amelia Lockwood's Eighth Lane, the artist's first time presenting with the gallery. Where is home again? The unknown home is the one you're always moving towards, the one you haven't lived in yet but dream of. Lodged between lucid dreams and foggy memories,... Read more -
Texan: Part I
Will Boone | Rosson Crow | Aaron Curry | Jeff Elrod | Mark Flood | Daniel Rios Rodriguez | Ryan Trecartin | Jeff Zilm April 22 - May 21, 2022 Dallas Various Small Fires is proud to present its inaugural exhibition at VSF Texas, the gallery’s newest location situated in Downtown Dallas. Presented in two parts, Texan celebrates the rich contributions Texas-born artists have made to the landscape of contemporary art and offers a homecoming for many of the exhibition's 'diasporic'... Read more -
Jungyoon Hyen & Mark Yang
Inanimatefy
Curated by Hayoung Chung April 16 - June 11, 2022 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present a two-person exhibition by Jungyoon Hyen and Mark Yang in its Seoul space. Like the exhibition title Inanimatefy, a unique term coined by combining ‘inanimate’ with ‘~to make (-fy),’ both artists take away the subjects’ lives and grant new meaning to their existence.... Read more -
Betty Brown
April 2 - May 7, 2022 Los Angeles I really didn’t know Betty Brown’s work or anything about her. I had driven almost an hour from my lake house to meet Tubby Brown. I had seen the pieces in a few galleries and at Folk Fest over the years. Bright colors were painted on chairs and benches with... Read more -
Billy Al Bengston
Safer at Home March 19 - April 30, 2022 Los Angeles BEING SAFE AT HOME MAKES LIFE SIMPLE. BILLY IS EXACTLY RIGHT. IT’S VERY HARD TO BE SIMPLE. BUT HE SUCCEEDED AND FOUND A TREASURE ONCE AGAIN. SIMPLE BUT MASTERFUL. FULL BENGSTONS! _ Billy Al Bengston (b. 1934, Dodge City, Kansas, lives, and works in Venice Beach and Honolulu) moved to... Read more -
Sara Anstis
Bundle February 25 - April 9, 2022 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Sara Anstis, the artist’s first with the gallery and in Asia. Bundle offers a glimpse inside the artist’s world through recent works on paper and canvas. Anstis' figures inhabit an environment ripe with dreamlike elements. Each naked body, rendered... Read more -
Will Gabaldón
This must be the place February 15 - March 19, 2022 Los Angeles VSF is pleased to present This must be the place, an exhibition of ten oil paintings by Chicago- based artist Will Gabaldón, the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. This group of small, visionary paintings depict specific pastoral landscapes and environments the artist has observed over time and rendered... Read more -
Snake whisky still life and other stories | Curated by Todd Bockley
Julie Buffalohead | Andrea Carlson | Jim Denomie | Jonathan Herrera Soto | Pao Houa Her | Tom Jones | Brad Kahlhamer | Postcommodity | Eric-Paul Riege | Lauren Roche | Cara Romero January 15 - February 19, 2022 Los Angeles VSF is pleased to present Snake whisky still life and other stories, a group exhibition curated by Todd Bockley featuring new works by Julie Buffalohead, Andrea Carlson, Jim Denomie, Jonathan Herrera Soto, Pao Houa Her, Tom Jones, Brad Kahlhamer, Postcommodity, Eric-Paul Riege, Lauren Roche, and Cara Romero. This exhibition highlights... Read more -
A Concept is a Brick
Ravi Jackson | Lizette Hernandez | Thalia Rodgers | Curated by Joshua Nathanson January 15 - February 5, 2022 Los Angeles VSF is pleased to present A Concept is a Brick, a group exhibition curated by Joshua Nathanson and Anthony Salvador that brings together new work by Lizette Hernandez, Ravi Jackson, and Thalia Rodgers. In order to address their origin stories, intellectual pursuits, and personal histories, these artists have dispensed with... Read more -
Che Lovelace
Presented as Natural January 12 - February 16, 2022 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to announce Presented as Natural, Che Lovelace’s second exhibition with the gallery, and his first exhibition in Asia. This presentation of paintings draws from a pool of works produced over the last six years. Lovelace’s vibrantly-charged paintings channel the flora, fauna, and culture of the... Read more -
Kyungmi Shin
citizen, not barbarian November 20, 2021 - January 8, 2022 Los Angeles VSF is pleased to present citizen, not barbarian, Kyungmi Shin’s first exhibition with the gallery. Shin’s exhibition explores her family’s histories, identities and migrations by interrogating global colonialism, its relationship to and effect on the multiple languages that frame who we are, how we see and what we know. The... Read more -
Dashiell Manley | Hayal Pozanti | Davina Semo
Tangerine Dreams | Jessica Silverman x VSF November 13, 2021 - January 8, 2022 Seoul Various Small Fires and Jessica Silverman are pleased to present Tangerine Dreams, a group exhibition bringing together new work by Dashiell Manley, Hayal Pozanti, and Davina Semo. Drawing inspiration from the optimism that arises from the symbolism of Tangerines, hues of orange and red throughout the exhibition reverberate feelings of... Read more -
Ashley Bickerton
Landscapes, Seascapes, and Interiors September 25 - November 6, 2021 Los Angeles Various Small Fires is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Ashley Bickerton (b. Barbados, 1959, lives in Bali, Indonesia) and the artist’s first solo show with the gallery. Bickerton, while known as an American artist, has lived and worked on the south coast of the island of... Read more -
Lucia Hierro
Gates: LA September 25, 2021 - January 8, 2022 Los Angeles Various Small Fires is pleased to present Lucia Hierro's first exhibition at VSF, a site-specific outdoor installation that coincides with Hierro's concurrent exhibition at Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles. An extension of the artist's ongoing sculpture series, Gates, which debuted at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in 2021, Lucia... Read more -
Lezley Saar
Black Garden September 18 - November 6, 2021 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present Lezley Saar’s first exhibition with the gallery, and her debut presentation in Asia. Through surrealist celestial paintings, collages, and tapestries, Saar’s work explores a range of topics, among them mixed-race identity and the nuances of gender and sexuality. The daughter of the artistically... Read more -
Mark Yang
September 4 - November 20, 2021 Los Angeles VSF is pleased to present a focused exhibition of paintings by New York-based artist Mark Yang (b. 1994, Seoul, South Korea), the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Yang’s recent dynamic, multi-figure paintings are rooted in the artist’s experience as a member of his high school wrestling team, a... Read more -
Andrea Marie Breiling | Mira Dancy | Samara Golden | Robert Nava
Sunburst | Night Gallery x VSF July 31 - September 11, 2021 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present Sunburst, a group exhibition presented in collaboration with Night Gallery at our Seoul location. Bringing together new work by Night Gallery artists Andrea Marie Breiling, Mira Dancy, Samara Golden, and Robert Nava, the exhibition is defined by a spirit of chromatic exuberance. Featuring... Read more -
Sean Raspet
July 28 - September 11, 2021 Los Angeles Various Small Fires is pleased to present Sean Raspet’s first show at Various Small Fires, and debut solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Raspet’s exhibition features three interrelated projects created over the past several years, consisting of: a selection of plants that have been exposed to radiation and chemical mutagens to... Read more -
Julien Creuzet | Hun Kyu Kim | Aaron Garber Maikovska | Pentti Monkkonen
High Art x VSF June 26 - July 28, 2021 Seoul Never! Time can never be stopped, yo! Why do you hesitate? When there’s only one choice Now is your only chance Here is your only Your only place to stay You are in a fantasy When everything is crumbling away You are still in a fantasy (…) – Excerpt from... Read more -
Psychosomatic
Erin Bagley | Olivia Erlanger | Trulee Hall | Dwyer Kilcollin | Anne Libby | Amelia Lockwood | Nevine Mahmoud | Kristen Morgin | Amanda Ross-Ho | Alison Saar | Anna Sew Hoy | Alison Veit | Rosha Yaghmai | Amy Yao | Isabel Yellin June 4 - July 16, 2021 Los Angeles Isabel put together another sculpture show. It’s going to be an ongoing thing, folding in new artists and works along the way but with a throughline of those who have been with it from the beginning. The first show was called Your Presence is Encouraged and when she told me... Read more -
Jessie Homer French
Skunk Cabbage May 29 - June 24, 2021 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present Skunk Cabbage, an exhibition of paintings by American artist Jessie Homer French in Seoul, Korea. This is the artist’s first solo presentation in Asia and third with VSF. For over a decade, the artist has lived in the desert mountains several hours outside... Read more -
Alexander Harrison
Midnight Everywhere April 24 - May 29, 2021 Los Angeles Various Small Fires is pleased to present Midnight Everywhere, Alexander Harrison’s (b. 1993, Greenville, South Carolina) West Coast debut and first solo exhibition at the gallery. Rendered in painstaking detail on an intimate scale, Harrison’s work conjures the illusive intricacy of Juan Sanchez Cotán’s still lifes of hanging fruit on... Read more -
Harold Ancart | Sebastian Black | Loïc Raguénès
Arms of the Sea | C L E A R I N G x VSF April 3 - May 22, 2021 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present Arms Of The Sea in collaboration with C L E A R I N G New York / Brussels / Beverly Hills in its Seoul location. The exhibition by Harold Ancart, Sebastian Black and Loïc Raguénès, is proposed through three axes of work... Read more -
Che Lovelace
From the Edge of the Rock March 6 - April 17, 2021 Los Angeles Various Small Fires is pleased to present Che Lovelace: From the Edge of the Rock, the artist’s (b. 1969, San Fernando, Trinidad) second solo exhibition in the United States and his first exhibition at VSF. Lovelace’s vibrantly-colored paintings are rooted in the flora, fauna, and culture of the artist’s native... Read more -
Neha Choksi
The Weight of the Cave March 6 - May 29, 2021 Los Angeles Neha Choksi (b. 1973, New Jersey, raised in India, lives between Los Angeles and Bombay) works across a range of mediums, including performance, sculpture, painting, video, and installation. The Weight of the Cave is representative of Choksi’s long-standing interest in the history, craftsmanship, and manipulation of stone in her sculptural... Read more -
Clarence Holbrook Carter
American Surrealist January 23 - February 27, 2021 Los Angeles Various Small Fires is pleased to present the first West Coast solo exhibition in five decades of works by the late American artist Clarence Holbrook Carter (b. Portsmouth, OH, 1904-2000) as part of an ongoing collaboration with WOLFS gallery (Cleveland, OH). An artist whose oeuvre is as hard to define... Read more -
Gina Beavers
Passionaries January 16 - March 20, 2021 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present Passionaries, American artist Gina Beavers’ first solo exhibition in Asia and her first exhibition with VSF. In Seoul, the artist will present eight new paintings that look at contemporary Internet culture and social phenomena to consider themes that include consumerism, celebrity fandom, global... Read more -
Henni Alftan & Dike Blair
KARMA x VSF November 28, 2020 - January 6, 2021 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present a two-person exhibition with Henni Alftan and Dike Blair in collaboration with Karma, NY in its Seoul location. Featuring six new paintings by each artist, the work of Alftan and Blair negotiates the pure rendering of an image and the conceptual grounding behind... Read more -
Glen Wilson
Slim Margins | Organized by jill moniz October 30 - December 19, 2020 Los Angeles Glen Wilson is determined to excavate the margins, to investigate and focus his attention toward what resonates there. His discovery, evidence as a reflection of cellular memory comprising the sometimes slim connections of our instincts, spiritual remembrance and our comfort, weave together forming a visual poetics. His vocabulary embodies and... Read more -
Sojourner Truth Parsons
Milk river October 27 - November 21, 2020 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present the debut solo exhibition in Asia of New York based artist Sojourner Truth Parsons (b. 1984, Vancouver, CA) and the artist’s first solo exhibition at VSF. Parsons’ introspective paintings often offer glimpses into her personal environment, lived psychological processes, and the multi-perspectival identification... Read more -
Diedrick Brackens
the pondkeepers September 26 - October 17, 2020 Los Angeles Lake Mexia is a thousand-acre span of abundance, celebration, nostalgia, and grief. From above, it appears as a bat flying out of a cave, two wings beating against a star-studded night. At only 20 feet deep, its sediment is a 60-year layer of history and community. “I am thinking about... Read more -
Elizabeth Neel
In the Belly of the Whale | Co-presented with Salon 94 September 22 - October 24, 2020 Seoul In Vermont daily life is experienced intensely, as every moment not in the studio – nature’s logic stands in front of me with crossed arms. — Elizabeth Neel, August 2020 American painter Elizabeth Neel’s latest exhibition, In the Belly of the Whale, is a hypnotic gateway into the beguiling pull... Read more -
Gwynn Murrill & Billy Al Bengston
GWYNN + BILLY August 22 - September 16, 2020 Los Angeles Gwynn Murrill and Billy Al Bengston go far back enough that they can’t seem to remember the exact moment that they met. Billy says it was during his last year of teaching at UCLA and “Gwynn was the best student in the art department,” while Gwynn recalls meeting Billy through... Read more -
Gina Beavers | Diedrick Brackens | Jessie Homer French | Chase Hall | Cindy Ji Hye Kim | Calida Rawles
Next of Kin May 30 - August 8, 2020 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present, Next of Kin, the exhibition debut of six American artists in Seoul, South Korea. In the unsettling ups and downs of the current COVID-19 crisis, VSF has taken the opportunity this summer to focus on a universal constant: family. Pushing beyond its biological... Read more -
Juan Capistran
Play Dead May 7 - July 2, 2020 Los Angeles Play Dead is LA-based artist Juan Capistrán’s first exhibition at Various Small Fires. Originally made in 2014 for the Hammer Museum, the sculpture I wanna be your dog takes on new meaning as it is re-installed today after several events have passed in the last six years attaching new cultural... Read more -
Jessie Homer French
Chernobyl April 21 - July 2, 2020 Los Angeles Two years in the making, Jessie Homer French’s much anticipated solo exhibition at VSF Los Angeles, which includes paintings of untamed wild fires, recently visited cemeteries, and French’s most current obsession with the Chernobyl “exclusion zone”, suddenly feel like prescient visions of our contemporary world. For most of us, sheltered... Read more -
Josh Kline
Alternative Facts April 11 - May 23, 2020 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in Asia of the American artist Josh Kline, an extension of the artist’s project Civil War, which explores the catastrophic implications of America’s political dysfunction. For over a decade as an artist and curator, Kline has surveyed the current... Read more -
Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork
Variations in Mass, #1-3 February 12 - March 18, 2020 Los Angeles Various Small Fires is pleased to present its first solo exhibition with Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, Variations in Mass, #1-3, in the gallery courtyard and sound corridor. Gork, whose multi-media practice meditates on the relationship between sound, architecture, time and the body, debuts her first outdoor work – an immersive, polysensory... Read more -
Calida Rawles
A Dream for My Lilith February 12 - March 18, 2020 Los Angeles “All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.” -Toni Morrison VSF is pleased to present A Dream for My Lilith, the gallery’s first solo exhibition with Calida Rawles. Reflecting on topographical matters which shape and hold black life, Rawles merges realism... Read more -
Liz Magic Laser
February 1 - March 28, 2020 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present Liz Magic Laser’s first solo exhibition in Asia. As a traveling presentation from Laser’s most recent exhibition at VSF Los Angeles, this debut presentation in Seoul introduces both the artist’s earlier work Mine (2009) and latest institutional project Handle / Poignée (2018), which... Read more -
Liz Magic Laser
People Per Hour November 22, 2019 - January 25, 2020 Los Angeles Various Small Fires is pleased to present Liz Magic Laser’s third solo show with the gallery, People Per Hour. The exhibition marks the U.S. debut of Laser’s most recent institutional works, Handle / Poignée (2018), commissioned by Centre Pompidou for MOVE Festival, Paris and In Real Life (2019), commissioned by... Read more -
Math Bass
Fill It Up Silver November 2, 2019 - January 18, 2020 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present the debut exhibition of Los Angeles based artist Math Bass in South Korea, the artist’s first solo exhibition with VSF. A continued investigation into semiotics and visual processing, Fill It Up Silver mines the methodology of valuation through a series of paintings from... Read more -
Robin F. Williams
With Pleasure September 7 - October 26, 2019 Los Angeles Various Small Fires is pleased to present the West Coast debut of Robin F. Williams and her first solo exhibition with VSF. In a series of new paintings that reimagine the coded narratives of American media, Williams isolates and derails the sexual suggestiveness, pandering strategies, and gendered objectifications utilized in... Read more -
James Herman
Yardwork August 10 - October 26, 2019 Los Angeles “I worked on the hill – or property, compound, whatever you want to call it – for 5 years building a home and systems for off-grid living while still being only 10 minutes from beautiful downtown LA. The best way to fix up a place is to live in it.... Read more -
Joshua Nathanson
Symbiotic July 27 - October 12, 2019 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present the debut presentation in South Korea of Los Angeles-based artist Joshua Nathanson (b. 1976, Washington D.C.). Featuring his latest works, Joshua Nathanson: Symbiotic will be on view from July 27 through October 12 at VSF Seoul. In Nathason’s previous work, carefree people luxuriate... Read more -
The Harrisons
Counter Extinction Work June 7 - August 24, 2019 Los Angeles Various Small Fires is pleased to present its second solo exhibition by The Harrisons. Newton Harrison worked from 1969 to 2012 with his wife Helen Mayer Harrison (1927-2018), and has continued to work alone since her passing. After reading Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in the late 1960s, The Harrisons decided... Read more -
Billy Al Bengston & Ed Ruscha
Reunited April 1 - June 22, 2019 Seoul VSF is pleased to announce the opening of its second gallery location in Seoul, South Korea, with an inaugural exhibition of new and historical works by legendary California artists Billy Al Bengston (b.1934, Dodge City, Kansas) and Ed Ruscha (b. 1937, Omaha, Nebraska). This is the debut gallery presentation of... Read more -
Anna Sew Hoy
The Wettest Letter March 16 - May 11, 2019 Los Angeles VSF is pleased to present The Wettest Letter, Anna Sew Hoy’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Working with clay for over twenty years, Sew Hoy’s sculptures express a multitude of textures, exchanges, and active states by way of the body – hers, the onlooker’s, and the clay’s own physicality,... Read more -
Diedrick Brackens
unholy ghosts March 16 - May 11, 2019 Los Angeles I stand waist deep in the decadence of forgetting. The vain act of looking the other way. Insisting there can be peace and fecundity without confrontation. The nagging question of blood hounds me. How do I honor it? – Essex Hemphill, The Father, Son and Unholy Ghosts, 1996 VSF is... Read more -
VSF Sound Program by Dawn Kasper
Everybody is Somebody’s Family March 16 - May 11, 2019 Los Angeles Everybody is Somebody’s Family is an audio recording of an improvisational performance with Zeena Parkins at David Lewis Gallery on December 21, 2018. It was inspired by Claudia La Rocco’s Poem (2018). Everybody is Somebody’s Family was the fourth and final in a four-part performance series inside of the exhibition... Read more -
Korakrit Arunanondchai
Courtyard Screenings: With history in a room filled with people with funny names 4 and No History in a Room Filled with People with Funny Names 5 February 12 - 17, 2019 Los Angeles Shown for the first time in Los Angeles, Korakrit Arunanondchai’s newest video works, With history in a room filled with people with funny names 4, 2017 and No History in a room filled with people with funny names 5 (in collaboration with Alex Gvojic), 2018, will screen outdoors for four... Read more -
Nikki S. Lee
Parts and Scenes January 26 - March 2, 2019 Los Angeles Parts and Scenes is Nikki S. Lee’s first exhibition of the Parts (2002-2004) series in the United States in nearly a decade. The show also presents Scenes (2014), a series of short videos that VSF is proud to debut. Parts and Scenes both feature the artist in tableaux of her... Read more -
DIS | Katja Novitskova | Christopher Kulendran Thomas
up the river down the tide November 8, 2018 - January 12, 2019 Los Angeles The Aymara, an indigenous people native to the Andes mountains, maintain in their language a spatial conception of time distinct from the global mainstream. Whereas in most cultures the future is conceptualized as ahead of the ego, with the past behind it, for the Aymara the opposite is true –... Read more -
Joshua Nathanson
An Idea Because They Ate It September 15 - October 20, 2018 Los Angeles A woodland princess, a Pumpkin-headed spirit guide, a gargantuan creature drafted only in its contours, licking unseen wounds, a pale pink perspex shoe, possibly one lost by the princess, a chlorophyll canopy, a colour study: Joshua Nathanson’s paintings unfold with the keen interest of an enfant terrible who could care... Read more -
Lauren Bon & The Metabolic Studio
Portable Wetland for Southern California September 15, 2018 - February 2, 2019 Los Angeles Closing performance, February 2, 2019, 3–5pm Lauren Bon, an Ecological artist, holds Los Angeles’ first and only private water right—Permit #21342—which allows her to annually divert 106 acre feet of water from the Los Angeles River. This river water is redirected under railway tracks to Bon’s riverfront interdisciplinary atelier of... Read more -
David Leggett | Ryan Richey
Mixed Emotions July 14 - August 25, 2018 Los Angeles “I can’t tell if you’re serious or not,” said the driver. “I won’t know myself until I find out whether life is serious or not,” said Trout. “It’s dangerous, I know, and it can hurt a lot. That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s serious, too.” Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions VSF... Read more -
Julie Curtiss
Altered States May 19 - June 23, 2018 Los Angeles Opening May 19, 6 – 8pm Various Small Fires (VSF) is pleased to present Julie Curtiss’ West Coast debut and first solo exhibition with VSF, Altered States. Curtiss, whose painting and sculpture practice is informed by the playful yet radical figurations of the Chicago Imagists, the graphic precision of Japanese... Read more -
VSF Sound Program by Clinton King
FATHOMS May 19 - June 23, 2018 Los Angeles FATHOMS emulates a deep-sea descent, a pressurized vacuum where tensions dissolve between the reality outside and one’s inner world. A fathom is a unit of length used in reference to the depth of water. — Clinton King (b. 1976) is a painter, sculptor and musician based in Brooklyn, NY. King... Read more -
Amir Nikravan
World of Interiors March 3 - April 28, 2018 Los Angeles My name performs a paradox of representation: admonishment and celebration, exoticism and familiarity, a positive record of an inclusive America or a negative report on immigration. As a US citizen and artist a catalyzing awareness awakens me to politicized forms, words, signs, and codes of identification. I explore this in... Read more -
Kathryn Garcia
A Tanit March 3 - June 23, 2018 Los Angeles A Tanit is an offering, a sanctuary, a portal. It is a space for communion. The intention of this installation, informed by matriarchal cultures, is very simple – construct a temple. The temple proposes several questions: What is the body’s relationship to form / its relationship to emptiness? How does... Read more -
Judith Linhares
The Way She Goes to Town January 12 - February 24, 2018 Los Angeles “In the high desert, where I was raised by Amazons, the days were long and the nights were longer, alas, Cinderella had left twenty years before my arrival. I was borne to a red headed body builder: whose sister was a blond disk jockey, a spinner of fast and loud... Read more -
Hecate | Curated by Sara Hantman
Katherine Bradford | Julie Curtiss | Jessie Homer French | Cy Gavin | Anna Glantz | Sanam Khatibi | Rainen Knecht | Lazaros | Nicky Lesser | Ana Mendieta | Walter Price | Anna Sew Hoy | Marianne Vitale November 11 - December 16, 2017 Los Angeles “W.I.T.C.H. is an all-women Everything. It’s theater, revolution, magic, terror, joy, garlic flowers, spells. It’s an awareness that witches and gypsies were the original guerrillas and resistance fighters against oppression — particularly the oppression of women — down through the ages. Witches have always been women who dared to be:... Read more -
Billy Al Bengston
It is the Moon Doggie September 16 - November 4, 2017 Los Angeles Billy Al truly doesn’t give a shit what you think about these paintings. He’s only ever given a shit as to what his close circle of friends and mentors – Kenny Price, Ed Ruscha… the other Ed (Moses), Craig Kauffman, John Altoon, Larry Bell and Peter Voulkos thought about his... Read more -
Sascha Braunig | David Gilbert | Jay Heikes | D'Ette Nogle | Carol Rama | Lee Relvas | Claude Wampler
Hurts To Laugh | Curated by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer July 8 - August 19, 2017 Los Angeles According to contemporaneously scribbled memos of the gripe-filled meeting, at points animatedly ranting and at others dragging: She said, it hurts to read the headlines. It hurts to open my laptop. It hurts to check my phone and hear the chime of notifications. It hurts to stay home and it... Read more -
Andrea Longacre-White
New Sculptures 2016-17 April 15 - May 27, 2017 Los Angeles A state of release cannot amount to much without the hardship that precedes it, a logic that underpins Andrea Longacre-White’s New Sculptures 2016-17. The fringe benefit of this logic was a rare chance to rebuild anew in a manner that may not have otherwise existed, and it was in the... Read more -
Jessie Homer French
Food Chain April 15 - May 27, 2017 Los Angeles Jessie Homer French (b. 1940, New York City) is a self-proclaimed “regional narrative painter” who routinely, perhaps even obsessively, paints archetypes of death and nature. In addition to painting, Homer considers fly fishing, mapestry-making and hook-latch as other forms of her creative outlet. The candidly dark themes and consistently earnest... Read more -
The Harrisons
The Harrisons January 24 - March 25, 2017 Los Angeles “Our work begins when we perceive an anomaly in the environment that is the result of opposing beliefs or contradictory metaphors. Moments when reality no longer appears seamless and the cost of belief has become outrageous offer the opportunity to create new spaces — first in the mind and thereafter... Read more -
Lena Daly
Night Bell November 5 - December 17, 2016 Los Angeles Various Small Fires (VSF) is pleased to present Lena Daly’s Night Bell, the artist’s debut solo exhibition. — An image of a sound on the other side of night. I’d always heard sound was a wave, but the wave part refers to its frequency not its shape. Ultra sound gets... Read more -
Jeff Zilm
Relics of the Epoch September 17 - October 22, 2016 Los Angeles Various Small Fires (VSF) is pleased to present Jeff Zilm’s Relics of the Epoch, the artist’s Los Angeles debut and first solo exhibition with the gallery. In his latest series of “emulated paintings” Zilm sources digital image files recovered from his defunct Macintosh computer installed with the System 7.1 operating... Read more -
GRIND | Curated by Joshua Nathanson
Ellen Berkenblit | Body by Body | Vanessa Conte | Robert Gober | Lothar Hempel | Natalie Labriola | Paulina Olowska | Asha Schechter | B. Thom Stevenson | Mateo Tannatt | Nathan Zeidman July 23 - August 27, 2016 Los Angeles I grew up with the feeling that our cities would evolve toward some kind of extreme state; utopian commune, technological wonder, total apocalypse etc. I think I absorbed these notions from our culture. But I’ve come to believe that the current nature of the city is likely its default state.... Read more -
No! I am No Singular Instrument | Curated by Samuel Kenswil
Hannah Black | Brian Khek | Ian Markell | Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings | Ellen Schafer | Hans Jacob Schmidt | Jala Wahid June 4 - July 9, 2016 Los Angeles Built environments sculpt and erode us, permeable and penetrable. Architecture and signage move us through structures erected to suit flows of capital first, and people perhaps somewhere down the line. Notice your chair: is your spine in a C or S formation? Design molds us into shapes; so do politics,... Read more -
VSF Sound Program by Claire Tolan | Presented by Paloma Powers
Maybe it wants what it wanted inside out June 4 - July 9, 2016 Los Angeles Paloma Powers, the futurist art agitator and dark materialist, is fascinated by the body as an interface for aesthetic intervention, inside and out. As the line between art object and lifestyle accessory is increasingly blurred, does corporeal sensation itself also become commodity? This summer, Paloma is pleased to present a... Read more -
Sean Shim-Boyle
THIEF April 16 - May 21, 2016 Los Angeles THIEF (fairytale) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jack is a young boy living with his widowed mother and a dairy cow as their only source of income. When the cow stops giving milk, Jack’s mother tells him to take it to the market to be sold. On the way, Jack... Read more -
Amy Yao
Bay of Smokes January 23 - March 19, 2016 Los Angeles VSF is pleased to present Amy Yao’s first solo show at Various Small Fires. Titled Bay of Smokes, the exhibition plays with different forms of contamination. It is a continuation of Yao’s interest in the aesthetics of industrial and domestic spaces from the perspective of access, gender, identity, and the... Read more -
Jesper Just
October 30 - December 12, 2015 Los Angeles VSF is pleased to present Jesper Just’s first solo exhibition at Various Small Fires. In the Main Gallery is a single-channel video projection of Llano (2012), filmed on location among the dusty Antelope Valley ruins of the failed Socialist-utopian desert city Llano del Rio in north-eastern Los Angeles County. The... Read more -
April Street
Lay Down Your Arms October 30 - December 12, 2015 Los Angeles VSF is pleased to present Lay Down Your Arms, Los Angeles-based artist April Street’s first solo exhibition at Various Small Fires. Street uses three spaces of the gallery to weave a dialog between a sound work, a sculptural installation and performative paintings. The exhibition is an environmental menagerie of objects... Read more -
Joshua Nathanson
Labor Day September 11 - October 24, 2015 Los Angeles VSF is pleased to present Labor Day, a solo presentation of new painting by Los Angeles-based artist Joshua Nathanson, his first at VSF. Inspired by the frenetic crowds of James Ensor, the vibrant color combinations of Henri Matisse, the cartoonish abjection of Philip Guston, and the back-lit aesthetics of computer... Read more -
Josh Kline
You're Fired! September 11 - October 24, 2015 Los Angeles In the warm breeze of Southern California’s endless summer, the 20th Century dream of life in the early evening after work: a large backyard covered in concrete and grass, a hammock or a lawn chair, cold beer, and a blazing grill. Ground meat sizzling above a glowing bed of charcoal... Read more -
Bjorn Copeland
Over Easy September 11 - October 24, 2015 Los Angeles VSF is pleased to present Over Easy by Bjorn Copeland, a presentation of new sound, sculpture, and collage works for the gallery’s Sound Corridor and Viewing Room. Amplified through VSF’s Sound Corridor, Scrambled Eggs, Mexican Radio Edit (2015) is a live audio signal from a sound-producing sculpture, made in collaboration... Read more -
The Slick & The Sticky | Co-curated with Vanessa Place
Dora Budor | Antoine Catala | Alex Fleming | Andrea Fraser | Lisa Jarrett | Jacob Kassay | Mary Kelly | Sean Kennedy | Andrea Longacre-White | Park McArthur | Vanessa Place | Stephanie Taylor | Jeff Zilm June 25 - August 15, 2015 Los Angeles In conjunction with The Slick and The Sticky, a VSF panel discussion is being held on Thursday, August 6th, at 7:30pm. Andrea Fraser Amelia Jones Vanessa Place Hamza Walker Moderated by Esther Kim Varet Panelists discuss the role of the artists, curators, and critics in addressing work that escapes its... Read more -
Jim Drain
Seems/Seams May 2 - June 6, 2015 Los Angeles VSF is pleased to present Jim Drain’s solo exhibition, Seems/Seams. After spending the past decade in Miami, Drain recently moved back to Providence, Rhode Island, where he had attended RISD and was a member of the artist collective Forcefield. Using processes derived from his background with textiles and collage, Drain... Read more -
VSF Sound Program by Audio Visual Arts (AVA), New York
May 2 - June 6, 2015 Los Angeles Audio Visual Arts and Various Small Fires are pleased to present E. Jane & chukwumaa, the third and final round in AVA’s sound program in VSF’s corridor. My purpose is to create new language, new meaning, new imagery from the vast lexicon around me —“Black”, “White”, or “Other”-wise. Is sound... Read more -
Mernet Larsen
Chainsawer, Bicyclist, and Reading in Bed February 28 - April 18, 2015 Los Angeles “As if I were leaving this life and had to take with me only a very few concrete images: this is what it was, not good, not bad, just what stood out. Not ephemeral, not photo or film-like, but memory turned into object, monumentalized.” — Mernet Larsen Various Small Fires... Read more -
Anna Sew Hoy
FACE NO FACE January 10 - June 6, 2015 Los Angeles VSF is pleased to present FACE NO FACE, Anna Sew Hoy’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. FACE NO FACE explores the beauty and horror of veils lifted. Each sculpture contains its own empty space manifesting a shocking void, an open closet in the dark, or a wide-open mouth. The... Read more -
Liz Magic Laser
The Thought Leader January 10 - February 21, 2015 Los Angeles VSF is pleased to present the premiere of two new video works by Liz Magic Laser: The Thought Leader (2015) and My Mind is My Own (2015). Each video will be installed alongside related props and sculptures. This is her second solo exhibition with the gallery. For The Thought Leader,... Read more -
Artificial Complexion | Co-curated with Amy Yao
Liz Craft | Matt Damhave | Gruppo UFO | K8 Hardy | Marie Karlberg | Alison Knowles | Jason Loebs | The Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven | Sean Raspet | Carissa Rodriguez | Kathleen Ryan| Amy Yao November 15 - December 20, 2014 Los Angeles Opening: November 15, 6 – 8pm with a performance by Marie Karlberg at 7pm You–country lout–trying to step into tights. Juggle words–as balls–about feelings–impressions– such you have–no art! No rhythm–curves–science–conviction–background–tradition! Where your circus? Where do you stand? What do your words mean? Never to point–what point? There is none–carry no... Read more -
VSF Sound Program curated by Luke Fischbeck, Sarah Rara, and John Tain
Artificial Complexion Sound Corridor Program November 15 - December 20, 2014 Los Angeles The Artificial Complexion Sound Corridor Program, curated by Sarah Rara, Luke Fischbeck, and John Tain, will curate a rotating selection of rarely heard historical Dada and Fluxus pieces and complementary contemporary audio works for the VSF sound corridor. Tristan Tzara, Marcel Janco, Richard Huelsenbeck, “L’amiral cherche une maison à louer,”... Read more -
Amir Nikravan
Merge Visible October 9 - November 8, 2014 Los Angeles VSF is pleased to present the gallery’s first solo exhibition of the Los Angeles-based painter Amir Nikravan. Despite their impasto appearance, Nikravan’s work fuses the logic of painting, photography, and sculpture onto one deceptively flat plane. Using negative space to create a positive representation of an image/object, he produces photorealistic... Read more -
Scott Benzel
Inverted Capitol Spire, Programmatic Architecture Displacement 5 & Inversion V October 9 - November 8, 2014 Los Angeles VSF is pleased to inaugurate its outdoor gallery and sound corridor with the new site-specific installation Inverted Capitol Spire, Programmatic Architecture Displacement 5 and the five-channel sound-piece “Inversion V” by Los Angeles-based artist Scott Benzel. This is his first show with the gallery. Benzel’s work often examines the boundaries between... Read more -
Christopher Badger | Trevor Paglen | Katie Paterson | Robert Smithson | Tavares Strachan | Michelle Stuart
Life: On The Moon November 2 - December 7, 2013 Los Angeles “The surface is fine and powdery. I can kick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers, like powdered charcoal, to the sole and sides of my boots. I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I... Read more -
Roy Dowell
Roy Dowell September 8 - October 19, 2013 Los Angeles Various Small Fires is pleased to present a solo exhibition of recent works by Roy Dowell, opening on Sunday, September 8, 2013 with a reception from 4pm to 6pm, and closing on October 19, 2013. Dowell’s paintings, collages, and sculptures sample and re-mix modernism, crafts, vernacular culture, and ethnic art... Read more -
Robert Barry | Helen Mirra | Matt Sheridan Smith
Tehachapi | Curated by Laura Fried May 25 - June 29, 2013 Los Angeles Various Small Fires is pleased to present new work by Robert Barry, Helen Mirra, and Matt Sheridan Smith. A quiet conversation among measured gestures, this exhibition considers the unsteady conditions of material form and the possibility for presence in absence. A pioneer of conceptualism and minimalism, Robert Barry’s practice has... Read more -
Anna Sew Hoy
Home Office April 6 - May 18, 2013 Los Angeles Deciding to live/work is like jumping headfirst into the void. Will you get anything done at all, or ever go out again? Long mornings are spent alone. You eat lunch at 10:30, or 2:45, have two lunches, or none at all. You sit on the bench, watch the clock, and... Read more -
Lucie Fontaine
I <3 Lucie February 14 - March 23, 2013 Los Angeles Various Small Fires is pleased to present “I Love Lucie.” Anat Ebgi and Esther Kim Varet of Various Small Fires have invited Lucie Fontaine to present a solo show to be split between their two Los Angeles galleries. Lucie Fontaine has conceived a series of artworks, each comprised of two... Read more -
Andrea Longacre-White
The existing term has become inadequate November 4 - December 1, 2012 Los Angeles Various Small Fires is pleased to present the first Los Angeles solo exhibition by Andrea Longacre-White (b. 1980, lives and works in Los Angeles). The title, The existing term has become inadequate, comes from the wikipedia page for the term ‘retronym’ (“A word introduced because an existing term has become... Read more -
Diego Singh
unimodern gondolieri October 7 - 27, 2012 Los Angeles Various Small Fires is pleased to present, unimodern gondolieri, the first Los Angeles solo exhibition by Argentinean artist Diego Singh (b. Salta, Argentina, lives and works in Miami and New York). The artist’s signature “denim” paintings, Rothko-esque in their scale and oceanic masses of pigment, will compete for wall space... Read more -
Samara Golden | Davida Nemeroff
Modern Painters September 9 - 30, 2012 Los Angeles Various Small Fires is pleased to announce a special collaboration between Davida Nemeroff (b. 1981, Montréal, Canada) and Samara Golden (b. 1973, Ann Arbor, Michigan). The original title of the show, “Midnight Cowboy,” was changed to “Modern Painters” in reaction to the exhibition’s preview in the September issue of Modern... Read more -
Liz Magic Laser
The Digital Face May 12 - June 23, 2012 Los Angeles Various Small Fires is pleased to present the west coast debut of Liz Magic Laser (b. 1981, New York, NY). Laser will exhibit video works from three recent performances: I Feel Your Pain (a Performa Commission, Produced by Performa), Flight, and The Digital Face. Laser will additionally present a series... Read more -
Debo Eilers | Kerstin Brätsch
Kaya 2 March 24 - April 28, 2012 Los Angeles Painting Performance and Live Auction, Saturday, March 24, 6-9PM You have a beautiful childhood in Mexico City. You meet the girl. Life is perfect. She moves to Manhattan and you follow her. Every day you go to work and wear elegant suits. You walk down Madison Avenue. Living... Read more -
Fiona Connor
Murals and Print January 7 - February 12, 2012 Los Angeles For its inaugural exhibition, Various Small Fires (VSF) is pleased to present Fiona Connor. In response to VSF’s newly completed gallery space, Connor has built six freestanding white walls mounted on casters, constructed on-site in the gallery. Each wall is treated with a different white surface texture sampled from building... Read more
