Steve Turner is pleased to present Cafe Society, a solo exhibition featuring new paintings by Los Angeles-based Alli Conrad that nostalgically depict vintage table settings and elegantly dressed diners underneath an afternoon blue sky. Conrad is inspired by the simple pleasure of dining outdoors at a sidewalk cafe and aims to highlight the simplicity, sophistication and importance of the bygone cafe, a place where writers, poets, artists, actors and intellectuals once gathered to spawn great ideas. Alli Conrad (b. 1995, Raleigh, North Carolina) is a Chinese-American artist who has had solo exhibitions at BOZO Mag Gallery, Los Angeles (2024); Août Gallery, Beirut (2023) and also has had work included in group exhibitions at WOAW Gallery, Singapore (2024), Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles (2024) and Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles (2023). This is her first exhibition at Steve Turner. - Steve Turner is pleased to present Umbra, a solo exhibition featuring new ceramic sculpture by Glasgow-based Becky Tucker that are inspired by the history of Britain’s lost villages. Tucker relishes working with fired ceramic, the very material that survives for thousands of years. She uses white stoneware that is glazed several times as well as faux suede dyed with indigo to assemble the pieces of her larger works. The idea of lost artifacts is at the root of her practice and the objects she creates cannot be clearly placed in a specific time period. Her mix of source imagery–Chinese tomb guardians, fossils, motorcycle armor, medieval illuminated manuscripts and Indian theater costumes–complicates identifying the origin of the works. Tucker’s works imply that the past can be as shadowy as the future. Becky Tucker (born 1993, Robin Hood’s Bay, England) graduated from Edinburgh College of Art (2017) before moving to Glasgow where she now lives. Her work was included in a group exhibition at Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2023); Untitled Art Fair, Miami Beach (2023) and Art Brussels (2024). Umbra is Tucker’s debut solo exhibition in the United States. - Steve Turner is pleased to present E-scape, a two-person exhibition featuring new paintings by Budapest-based Luca Sára Rózsa and new weavings by Nairobi-based Dickens Otieno. Both artists make works about the environment and humanity’s connection to it. Rózsa uses loose and expressive brush strokes in lustrous color to depict feral humans in nature. Four of her works relate to the elements of fire, water, air and earth while two relate to war and peace. Otieno creates large-scale colorful wall weavings and floor sculptures made of strips of soda cans. Whether depicting a rural or urban scene, he uses aluminum cans to emphasize the impact of humans on the environment. E-scape suggests a new genre of landscape painting, one that conveys the widespread anxiety for our planet’s future. Born in Budapest in 1990, Luca Sára Rózsa grew up between Brazil and Hungary. She returned to Europe to study at Eszterházy Károly College, Eger, Hungary (2009-2012); Universitate di Arta si Design, Cluj Napoca, Romania (2011); Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest (2012-2017) and Jan Matejko University of Fine Arts, Krakow (2015). She has had recent solo exhibitions at Double Q Gallery, Hong Kong (2024); ABC- Arte, Milan (2024) and Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2022 & 2023). Dickens Otieno (born 1979, Migori, Kenya, lives Nairobi) has had solo exhibitions at Circle Art Agency, Nairobi (2018, 2020 and 2023); Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2021) and has had works in numerous group exhibitions and art fairs in Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania Nigeria, France, England and the United States.