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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 -
Brandon Ballengée
Call of the Void April 27 - June 15, 2024 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 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 -
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
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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
