Steve Turner is pleased to present My Colors, a solo exhibition by Mexico City-based Omar Mendoza which features his highly distinctive paintings that utilize the artist’s homemade pigments and his handmade textured cotton supports. His processes are highly labor-intensive and personal as he painstakingly extracts pigments from plants, flowers and barks found in his parents’ home state of Puebla. The resulting works have a mystical quality, one that blends pre-hispanic imagery and processes with the artist’s own ideas, dreams, interests and experiences. They are embedded with history but also encompass contemporary ideas and objectives. Omar Mendoza (born 1993, Mexico City) earned a BA at UNAM, Mexico City (2016) and a diploma from Academy of San Carlos, Mexico City (2018). His most recent solo exhibition was at the Museum of Anthropology of Xalapa, Veracruz (2023) and has been presenting his works in Mexico since 2015. My Colors is Mendoza’s debut solo exhibition with Steve Turner and his first outside of Mexico. ____ Steve Turner is pleased to present Nervous System, a solo exhibition by Kate Klingbeil which features four recent paintings inspired by the artist’s experiences with chronic illness and her resulting medical anxiety caused by navigating the deteriorating American Healthcare system. Klingbeil creates her idiosyncratic sculptural paintings by embedding found materials including rocks, sand, ceramic and zebra mussel shells (from an invasive mollusk) into fields of thick paint. Klingbeil is interested in the interwoven and interdependent structures within the human body, and the relationship between our environments, our supports, and our emotional health. Chronically ill patients often find themselves without answers from medical professionals, and spend countless hours researching their symptoms and the connections between them, building maps of possible solutions to healing. Klingbeil finds this similar to the artist’s challenge of making less obvious connections between ideas in order to arrive at something that speaks to new ways of looking at the world. “Painting allows me to turn the inside outwards and is the visible expression of my nervous system. Each mark is a physical testament to a sensory experience that regulates me. Painting becomes both a metaphor and a literal translation of the impulses of the nervous system.” Kate Klingbeil (born 1990, Grosse Pointe, Michigan) received a BFA at California College of the Arts (2012). She has had solo exhibitions at Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2021 & 2022); Hesse Flatow, New York (2021); SPRING/BREAK, New York with Field Projects (2020) and has been in group exhibitions at Alexander Berggruen, New York (2023); Nino Mier, Los Angeles & New York (2021 & 2023); Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2020); Nevven Gallery, Gothenburg (2019); Andrew Edlin, New York (2019); Paul Kasmin, New York (2018) and Andrew Rafacz, Chicago (2017). She lives in Milwaukee. This is her third solo exhibition at Steve Turner. ____ Steve Turner is pleased to present Out of the Flow, a solo exhibition by Hangzhou-based Zigsen Liu which features recent paintings that are inspired by digital media and a sense of alienation. Liu uses bright electronic colors and image distorting brushstrokes to depict images that have no apparent connection–a cowboy standing on a lion, four women in swimsuits in an empty green landscape and a man with a crystal ball in the form of a skull. Images represent recurring themes of knowledge, power, life, death, fragility and eternity. The works contain scenes of the artist’s invention and destruction. To Liu, they are like logic errors in the realm of data flow and their short life span mirrors the fast pace of the internet. Zigsen Liu (born 1992, Anhui Province, China) earned both a BA and an MA at the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou (2010 & 2018). He has had solo exhibitions at Beijing Art Depot Gallery (2023); KEYI Gallery, Hefei (2022) and Mofeimo Gallery, Qingdao (2019) and has regularly had work included in group exhibitions in China since 2016. Out of the Flow is Liu’s debut exhibition outside of China.