Kevin McNamee-Tweed: Literature Steve Turner is pleased to present Literature, Kevin McNamee-Tweed’s debut solo exhibition in Los Angeles which features nearly three hundred objects across various media and from different series. There are three groups of paintings, one in glazed ceramic, another on muslin in unusual shapes and another which the artist calls his “butterfly” series which consists of rectangular canvases with two pairs of circular forms flanking a vertical line. McNamee-Tweed is also presenting drawings and relief sculptures that resemble shelves as well as found objects and printed ephemera.   Kevin McNamee-Tweed (b. 1984) grew up near Chapel Hill, North Carolina before studying at New York University where he earned a BFA (2008). After living in Austin, Texas for seven years, he moved to Iowa City to enroll in the MFA program at the University of Iowa where he will earn an MFA (2020). He has had solo exhibitions at The Still House Group, New York (2016); Rod Barton, London (2017); Shrine Gallery, New York (2018) and Devening Projects, Chicago (2019). Literature is his first solo exhibition at Steve Turner, Los Angeles. He lives and works in Iowa City.  –––– John Dilg: Features Steve Turner is pleased to present Features, a solo exhibition by Iowa City-based John Dilg which consists of new paintings that are meditations on land, memory, beauty and danger. According to Dilg, “These are not ‘landscape paintings.’ Rather, they are intended as records of a tendency to view and remember, in an abstract, metaphoric language, my relationship with the land. One’s memory of the land is a reservoir of abstractions, a mental archive of visual forms; it functions as a personal framework in service to both survival and the restorative possibilities of the ‘beauty’ found in natural encounters.”    John Dilg earned a BFA at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence (1969) and was a Fulbright Scholar at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Dehli (1972). He has had numerous solo and two-person exhibitions over the last forty years, most recently at Devening Projects, Chicago (2018); Taymour Grahne, New York (2016); Tony Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee (2015); Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson (2014) and Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston (2013). Dilg was a professor of art at the University of Iowa from 1975 to 2017. This is his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles and his first with Steve Turner.  ––– Jillian Mayer: Render Room Steve Turner is pleased to present Render Room, a solo exhibition by Miami-based Jillian Mayer consisting of sculptures and quasi-functional furniture that the artist describes as  "inspired by digital static.” Presented as an installation, the works were motivated by Mayer's concern that our cities, buildings and furniture will soon only look like the computer programs in which they were designed. Render Room is a physical manifestation of this future.    Jillian Mayer (b. 1984, Miami) earned a BFA at Florida International University, Miami (2012) and has had residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha (2019), Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito (2018); Ox-Bow School of Art, Chicago (2018). She has had solo exhibitions at Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus (2019), Tufts University, Boston (2018); Postmasters Gallery, New York (2018); Perez Art Museum, Miami (2016) and David Castillo Gallery, Miami (2011 & 2016). Through video, sculpture, photography, performance and installation, Mayer explores the impact that technology has on our lives, bodies, and identities. Render Room is her first exhibition at Steve Turner.