Past
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Art Basel Miami 2024
Billy Al Bengston | Diedrick Brackens | Dianna Molzan | a’driane nieves | Sarah Rosalena | Yu Kobayashi December 5 - 8, 2024 VSF is proud to announce our debut participation in the Galleries sector of Art Basel Miami. Featuring iconic, historic Dentos by Billy Al Bengston alongside new works by gallery artists... Read more -
Frieze Seoul 2024
Alex Foxton | A'Driane Nieves | Che Lovelace | Sara Anstis | Yu Kobayashi | Glen Wilson September 4 - 7, 2024 VSF will present new works by Alex Foxton, A'Driane Nieves, Che Lovelace, Sara Anstis, Yu Kobayashi, and Glen Wilson . These artists make works that expand our understanding of history,... Read more -
Dallas Invitational 2024
Sophia Anthony | Will Gabaldón | Che Lovelace | Joshua Nathanson | Jessica Palermo April 4 - 6, 2024 Read more
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Art Basel Hong Kong 2024
A'Driane Nieves | Antonius-Tín Bui | Alex Foxton | Dew Kim | Diedrick Brackens | Dianna Molzan | Jessie Homer French | Lezley Saar | Mark Yang | Wendy Park March 28 - 30, 2024 For the 2024 edition of Art Basel Hong Kong Various Small Fires is pleased to present new works by Diedrick Brackens, Antonius-Tín Bui, Alex Foxton, Jessie Homer French, Dew Kim,... Read more -
Frieze Los Angeles 2024
Brandon Ballengée | Jessie Homer French | The Harrison Studio | John Miller | Sean Raspet February 29 - March 3, 2024 Including works by The Harrison Studio, Jessie Homer French, Brandon Ballengée, Sean Raspet, and John Miller, VSF’s presentation at Frieze LA 2024 will simultaneously address pervasive climate nihilism and the... Read more -
Frieze London
Alex Foxton | A'Driane Nieves | Mark Yang October 11 - 15, 2023 Alex Foxton (b. 1980, lives and works in Paris, France) graduated with a Masters Degree from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK. Foxton has held solo... Read more
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Independent
Wendy Park May 11 - 14, 2023 Wendy Park (b. 1986, Los Angeles, California, lives and works in Los Angeles, California) is a Korean- American painter. She received a BFA from Otis College of Art & Design.... Read more -
Dallas Art Fair
Sara Anstis | Alex Becerra | Alex Foxton | Jessie Homer French | Mie Olise Kjærgaard | Che Lovelace | Caitlin Lonegan | Mark Yang April 20 - 23, 2023 Sara Anstis (b. 1991) is a Stockholm-born and Salt Spring Island raised artist. She received a BFA in Studio Art and Sociology at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada) in 2013 and... Read more -
Frieze Los Angeles
Diedrick Brackens and Dyani White Hawk February 16 - 19, 2023 Diedrick Brackens (b. 1989, Mexia, Texas, lives and works in Los Angeles, California) received a BFA from University of North Texas, Denton and an MFA in textiles from California College... Read more
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Frieze Los Angeles OVR 2023
Sara Anstis | Madeline Donahue | Alex Foxton | Alexander Harrison | Michael Hilsman | Che Lovelace | Mie Olise Kjærgaard | Alvin Ong | Wendy Park | John Ripenhoff | Lumin Wakoa February 16 - 19, 2023 Read more -
Art SG
Gina Beavers | Alex Foxton | Che Lovelace | Mark Yang January 12 - 15, 2023 Read more -
Frieze Seoul
Math Bass | Gina Beavers | Alex Becerra | Ashley Bickerton | Diedrick Brackens | Alex Foxton | Will Gabaldón | Nikki S. Lee | Lily Wong | Mark Yang September 2 - 5, 2022 Read more
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Dallas Art Fair
Alex Becerra | Kohshin Finley | Will Gabaldón | Jessie Homer French | Sean Landers | Lezley Saar | Kyungmi Shin | Mark Yang April 21 - 24, 2022 Read more -
Frieze Los Angeles
Sara Anstis | Alex Becerra | Math Bass | Billy Al Bengston | Ashley Bickerton | Kohshin Finley | Jessie Homer French | Will Gabaldón | Alexander Harrison | Christian Quin Newell | Wendy Park | Calida Rawles | Anna Sew Hoy | Glen Wilson February 17 - 20, 2022 Read more -
Art Basel Miami Beach
Jessie Homer French and Diedrick Brackens December 2 - 4, 2021 Visions of water will be the focus of Various Small Fires’ first Art Basel Miami Beach Nova presentation with new works by Jessie Homer French and Diedrick Brackens. These two... Read more
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Korea International Art Fair
Mark Yang October 14 - 17, 2021 Mark Yang (b. 1994, Seoul, South Korea) received a BFA from Art Center College of Design and an MFA from Columbia University. Yang presented solo exhibitions at And Milk at... Read more -
Frieze London
Glen Wilson October 13 - 17, 2021 Glen Wilson is a multi-disciplinary artist and photographer who lives and works in Los Angeles. Merging photography, sculpture, weaving, and assemblage, Wilson's practice addresses the shifting dynamics of individual and... Read more -
Independent
Che Lovelace September 9 - 12, 2021 Many Indo and Afro-Caribbean dances can be ancestrally traced. They are movements encoded with an identity that becomes a strong navigational force in our contemporary world– both in terms of... Read more
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Felix Los Angeles
Anna Sew Hoy | Billy Al Bengston | Jessie Homer French | Joshua Nathanson | Judith Linhares | Mark Yang July 29 - August 1, 2021 Anna Sew Hoy (born 1976, Auckland, NZ, lives and works in Los Angeles, CA) received her MFA from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY in 2008. Solo presentations of Sew Hoy’s work... Read more -
Art Busan
Billy Al Bengston | Ashley Bickerton | Diedrick Brackens | Jessie Homer French | Joshua Nathanson | Sojourner Truth Parsons | Amy Yao | Pentti Monkkonen November 5 - 8, 2020 Billy Al Bengston (b. 1934, Dodge City, Kansas, lives and works in Venice Beach, California and Honolulu, Hawaii) moved to Los Angeles with his family in 1948. He studied painting... Read more -
Art Basel OVR:2020
Diedrick Brackens | Jessie Homer French | Judith Linhares | Anna Sew Hoy | Calida Rawles | Glen Wilson September 23 - 26, 2020 For over a week now, the California sky has been glowing a putrid yellow-gray. Ash occasionally rains on parked cars and front lawns outside tightly closed doors and windows. In... Read more
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Independent
Jessie Homer French March 6 - 8, 2020 A longtime contemporary of the historic Ferus Gallery artists of Los Angeles and a resident of California for the past four decades, Jessie Homer French (b. 1940) has painted distinctly... Read more -
Frieze Los Angeles
Calida Rawles February 14 - 16, 2020 “All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.” -Toni Morrison VSF is pleased to the gallery’s first fair presentation with Calida... Read more -
ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair
Joshua Nathanson November 7 - 10, 2019 Various Small Fires is pleased to present a solo presentation by Los Angeles-based artist, Joshua Nathanson for Art021’s Detour section. In his newest paintings, Nathanson continues to explore many of... Read more
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Frieze New York
Diedrick Brackens May 1 - 5, 2019 For Frieze New York 2019, Various Small Fires will debut a solo presentation of works by Los Angeles-based artist Diedrick Brackens (b. 1989, Mexia, TX). Brackens uses woven algorithms stemming... Read more -
Frieze London
Mane | Robin F. Williams, Julie Curtiss, Amy Yao October 3 - 7, 2018 VSF is pleased to present Mane, a selection of works by Julie Curtiss, Robin F. Williams and Amy Yao, three female artists whose studio practices redefine femininity by turning the... Read more -
Frieze New York
Billy Al Bengston May 3 - 6, 2018 For Frieze NY 2018, Various Small Fires presents a selection of Billy Al Bengston’s (b.1934) “moon paintings”, the first grouped exhibition of this series outside of California since their debut... Read more
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Art Basel Hong Kong
Jessie Homer French March 29 - 31, 2018 Various Small Fires (VSF) is pleased to present a solo presentation of recent works by the 77-year-old Californian painter, Jessie Homer French (b. 1940, New York City, New York; lives... Read more -
Frieze London
The Harrisons - Survival Piece V Part II: Lemon Orchard Fragment October 5 - 8, 2017 Various Small Fires (VSF) is pleased to present Survival Piece V Part II: Lemon Orchard Fragment, a variation of the historic 1972 installation by Helen Mayer Harrison (1929–2018) and Newton... Read more -
Frieze New York
Jessie Homer French, The Harrisons, Mernet Larsen, Liz Magic Laser, Andrea Longacre-White, Joshua Nathanson, B. Thom Stevenson, Amy Yao May 5 - 7, 2017 For Frieze New York 2017, Various Small Fires is pleased to present a curated booth of works by American artists spanning several generations that employ sardonic humor to wrestle with... Read more
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Art Basel Hong Kong
Joshua Nathanson March 23 - 25, 2017 VSF is pleased to present for the 2017 Art Basel Hong Kong Positions sector a composed presentation of new paintings and sculptures by Los Angeles based artist Joshua Nathanson. This... Read more -
The Armory Show
Mernet Larsen March 2 - 5, 2017 For The Armory Show, VSF presents a selection of Mernet Larsen’s (b.1940) most iconic works on paper to date. Larsen’s “paintings on paper” are essential roadmaps to the artist’s painting... Read more -
Art Basel Miami Beach
Amy Yao December 1 - 4, 2016 For Art Basel Miami Beach 2016 Various Small Fires will present a solo exhibition by gallery artist Amy Yao. The stand will contain both wall-based works and a floor installation... Read more
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Frieze London
Liz Magic Laser October 6 - 9, 2016 For Frieze 2016, Various Small Fires presents “Primal Speech”, an immersive mixed media installation produced for the fair by gallery artist Liz Magic Laser. Catharsis and manipulation merge into a... Read more -
Dallas Art Fair
Sean Shim-Boyle, Lena Daly, Mernet Larsen, Amir Nikravan, Amy Yao April 14 - 17, 2016 Various Small Fires is pleased to present works by Sean Shim-Boyle, Lena Daly, Mernet Larsen, Amir Nikravan and Amy Yao. Read more -
Art Los Angeles Contemporary
BRACE BRACE (Annika Kuhlmann & Christopher Kulendroan Thomas), Lena Daly, Andrea Longacre-White, Samuel Kenswil, Joshua Nathanson, Amir Nikravan, Anna Sew Hoy, Amy Yao January 28 - 31, 2016 Various Small Fires is pleased to present works by: BRACE BRACE (Annika Kuhlmann & Christopher Kulendroan Thomas) | Lena Daly | Andrea Longacre-White | Samuel Kenswil | Joshua Nathanson |... Read more
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EXPO Chicago
Jim Drain, Mernet Larsen, Joshua Nathanson, Amir Nikravan, April Street, Amy Yao, Jeff Zilm September 17 - 20, 2015 Vernissage: Thursday, September 17 | 6:00pm–9:00pm Read more -
Dallas Art Fair
Mernet Larsen, Andrea Longacre-White, Joshua Nathanson, Amir Nikravan, April Street, Amy Yao April 10 - 12, 2015 Read more -
The Armory Show
Amir Nikravan March 5 - 8, 2015 Despite their impasto appearance, the compositions depicted in Nikravan’s paintings are completely flat optical mirages. Nikravan’s paintings subtly critique abstract paintings’ charismatic appeal, and play with the paradox of abstract... Read more
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Art Los Angeles Contemporary
Mernet Larsen, Joshua Nathanson, Amir Nikravan, Kathleen Ryan, Amy Yao January 29 - February 1, 2015 Read more -
Art Los Angeles Contemporary
Sean Shim-Boyle January 30 - February 2, 2014 Happy Cat (2014) re-contextualizes the Maneki-neko figurine (Beckoning Cat) often found in Japanese merchant and restaurant spaces. The figurine’s genesis is disputed in folklore, but its relationship to wealth, fortune... Read more -
Frieze London
Andrea Longacre-White October 16 - 20, 2013 Andrea Longacre-White concerns herself with the inevitable human-like failures of our industrially designed and mass-produced technological gadgets. Commercially available products and unique images short-circuit one another in a limitless series... Read more
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Dallas Art Fair
Amir Nikravan, Anna Sew Hoy April 12 - 14, 2013 Various Small Fires is pleased to be participating in the 2013 Dallas Art Fair with a two-person presentation by Los Angeles-based artists Anna Sew Hoy and Amir Nikravan. Anna Sew... Read more -
The Armory Show
Liz Magic Laser March 7 - 10, 2013 Various Small Fires is very pleased to announce its participation in the centennial edition of The Armory Show with a solo presentation by Liz Magic Laser (b. 1981 New York,... Read more -
Art Los Angeles Contemporary
Curated by Lucie Fontaine January 24 - 27, 2013 Esther Kim Varet of Various Small Fires and Anat Ebgi are pleased to present Fil Rouge, a show curated by Lucie Fontaine for the 2013 Art Los Angeles Contemporary art... Read more
