Booth D9
Galerie Eva Presenhuber is thrilled to return to Frieze Los Angeles with a presentation of works by Amy Feldman, Wyatt Kahn, and Tschabalala Self.
Amy Feldman is recognized for her iconic painting language and commitment to large-scale gray-on-gray abstractions. Feldman's investigation in the color gray highlights the significance and potential that can be found in neutrality—how something can appear neutral but is, in fact, charged with great power of expression. Feldman typically works in series, presenting distilled iterations of unique forms, which relate to how images and signs are quickly interpreted, remembered, and misremembered.
Working with linen, sheets of lead, oil stick, and shaped stretchers, Wyatt Kahn constructs what can be considered, for lack of a better term, "specific objects." Neither painting nor sculpture, in the strict sense of the art forms, they are both, and more. The artist's three-dimensional wall works draw on a formal figurative reference, which becomes so abstracted as to take on an obscure semiotic or linguistic complexion.
In process and presentation, Tschabalala Self's work explores the agency involved in myth creation and the psychological and emotional effects of projected fantasy. Self has sustained a practice wholly concerned with Black life and embodiment, with an intended audience from within that same community. Self assembles fully formed characters who, individually and situationally, hold power over their self-presentation and external perception. A power frequently denied to Black American people in their daily lives.