Luciana Lamothe: I'm Burning Here Steve Turner is pleased to present I'm Burning Here, a solo exhibition by Buenos Aires-based Luciana Lamothe. Her second exhibition at the gallery, it consists of seven steel sculptures, four of which are site-specific, positioned between the floor and the supporting beams along the ceiling, while three smaller, parallel works rise up from the floor. Of the latter, it is not clear if they are growing towards the ceiling or if perhaps they once spanned the entire vertical space and have since decayed. Each work is made from structural metal pipes that have been assembled with the scaffolding clamps typically used at construction sites, however, atypically, Lamothe weakened the structural integrity of the pipes by corroding, burning and drilling into them. In so doing, she has rendered the materials ambiguous. Are they structural or sculptural? Supportive or dangerous? Strong or weak? Durable or decaying? 

Luciana Lamothe (b. 1975, Mercedes, Argentina) studied at the National School of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires (1999); participated in the Kuitca Scholarship, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires (2011); and has had residencies at Air Antwerp (2013) and Skowhegan (2007). She has had solo or two-person exhibitions at MAMBA, Buenos Aires (2013); Ruth Benzacar Gallery, Buenos Aires (2018, 2014, 2011, 2008, 2006); Arroniz Gallery, Mexico City (2012); Alberta Pane, Paris (2014, 2012) and Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2016). Her works have been included in group exhibitions at Museo MAR, Buenos Aires (2015); La Maison Rouge, Paris (2015); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2013); De Appel Art Center, Amsterdam (2011); the 11th Lyon Biennial (2011); and the 5th Berlin Biennial (2005). In 2018, her monumental work, Starting Zone was featured in Art Basel Cities, Buenos Aires and in 2019, she was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Gabrielle D'Angelo: Off Balance Steve Turner is pleased to present Off Balance, Gabrielle D'Angelo's debut solo exhibition in Los Angeles which features four wall works and one floor work made from fabric and wood that the artist subjected to numerous operations: dyeing, cutting, drilling, sewing, cinching, tearing, tying, knotting, draping, pleating, stuffing, pouring, painting, staining, folding, wrapping, mixing, soaking, bleaching, resisting, attaching, breaking, ruching, drawstring-ing, embroidering, clamping, carving, sanding, jointing, joining, grooving, nailing, reflecting, applying, expanding, compressing, pulling, breaking, wedging, balancing, weighing, deconstructing, collecting, giving in, taking in, overdoing, leaving, letting go, copying and overstepping. In one, a deconstructed chair has been painted with gradients of color so that it interacts with the light and space of the gallery. In others, fabrics were elaborately treated with techniques like ruching to capture delicate fold lines so that they might appear to be garments clothing the gallery's white walls. Each work has elements of flatness and volume. However, it is the space in between them that interests D'Angelo most. It is there that movement and action have been recorded and there that they will be perceived. Gabrielle D'Angelo earned a BFA at Cooper Union, New York (2011) and an MFA at Yale (2019). Between 2011 and 2016, she presented numerous performances in New York. D'Angelo lives and works in Brooklyn. Eugenia Mendoza: Criollo Fittings Steve Turner is pleased to present Criollo Fittings, a solo exhibition by Buenos Aires-based Eugenia Mendoza that will present woven wicker sculptures of mass-produced pipe fittings and other elements from building construction. She uses the materials and methods once common to the Paran River delta area near Buenos Aires to depict ordinary construction elements that are common in Argentina's ever-expanding capital city. Eugenia Mendoza earned a BA in Sociology at the University of Buenos Aires (2004) and a BA in Visual Arts at the National University of Art (2014). She has had solo exhibitions at Galeria Alsina, Buenos Aires (2014) and at El Arbol Cultural Center, Buenos Aires (2010). This is her first exhibition at Steve Turner, Los Angeles and her first outside of Argentina.