6830 Santa Monica Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90038
Saturday, December 10 at 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Ends Jan 7, 2023
Steve Turner is pleased to present Todo el Tiempo, a solo exhibition of new abstract paintings by Buenos Aires-based Joaquin Boz that rely on his physical energy, careful scrutiny and patient refinement. Each work was created over several months in his Los Angeles studio, a daily process that encompassed numerous processes and tools causing the surfaces to appear rubbed, scratched, layered, and built up, minimized, thinned and reworked. In the past, he worked only with his gloved hands and rags and favored an earthy palette of browns, greens and yellows. The new works include every color imaginable and result from a new array of hand-held tools. They vibrate with color and reverberate with marks and gestures to represent time–all time.
Joaquín Boz (born 1987) studied at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires under the direction of Jorge Macchi. He has had solo exhibitions with Móvil, Buenos Aires (2014); Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2015, 2017, 2018 and 2020); Barro, Buenos Aires (2018 and 2022 ) as well as at Zona Maco, Mexico City (2016) and Art Brussels (2018). He was awarded the First Prize Salón Nacional de Rosario, Buenos Aires (2015) and his work was included in My Buenos Aires, curated by Albertine de Galbert, at La Maison Rouge, Paris (2015).
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Steve Turner is pleased to present Eutierria, a solo exhibition by Bianca Nemelc that features the interconnectedness of watery landscapes and the female form in a series of new paintings. The exhibition’s title is a term coined by Australian philosopher Glenn A. Albrecht, and it refers to “a positive feeling of oneness with the earth and its life forces where the boundaries between self and the rest of nature are obliterated and a deep sense of peace and connectedness pervades consciousness.” This is the feeling that Nemelc seeks to convey in her paintings and in the immersive installation that she designed together with guest curator, Ché Morales.
Bianca Nemelc (born 1991, New York) has had recent solo exhibitions at Woaw Gallery, Hong Kong and Hashimoto Contemporary, New York. This is her first exhibition at Steve Turner, Los Angeles.
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Steve Turner is pleased to present Moretto, a solo exhibition by Nicolas Coleman that features a series of self-portraits in which Coleman depicts himself as various Venetian characters–a gondolier, a tourist, a runner in the Venice Marathon and an immigrant selling towels on the beach at Lido. He juxtaposes the figures with the city’s architecture, the waterways and adorns them with symbol-laden clothing to suggest the malleability of self-conception through the prism of Venice, a city whose visual culture is defined by its pluralism. By examining these themes through self-portraiture, Coleman creates works that explore cultural and ethnic identity and appropriation within the visual landscape of Venice.
Nicolas Coleman (b. 1998, Durham, North Carolina) graduated from Duke University in 2020 where he studied Visual Arts and Political Science before moving to New York. Since graduating, his work has been included in group exhibitions at Galerie Hussenot, Paris (2022); Foreign Agent, Lausanne (2022) and 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, New York (2022). This is his first solo exhibition and his first with Steve Turner, Los Angeles.