Jeffrey Deitch is pleased to announce Still Life, a solo exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist Khoshin Finley. Marking his most ambitious presentation to date, the exhibition brings together monumental oil portraits integrated with ceramic vessels, seamlessly merging painting, poetry, sculpture, and design into an immersive installation rooted in memory, material, and personal mythology.Finley, whose Black-Mexican identity and upbringing in Los Angeles anchor his practice, returns to Jeffrey Deitch after his celebrated inclusion in Shattered Glass(2021). WithStill Life, he deepens his commitment to portraying his community through a lens of tenderness and truth, presenting a series of life sized portraits framed in handcrafted walnut vitrines, which also house vessels of his own making. This exhibition extends his formal language of transparency and layering, allowing the understructure of charcoal, gesso, and gestural poetry to surface as both visual and emotional code.“My paintings hold moments of intimacy and care,” Finley states. “There’s poetry embedded in the underpainting, not always legible but always present, like the stories we carry in our bodies.The ceramics extend that language, they’re ancestral, functional, symbolic.”Influenced by time spent in Los Angeles, Japan, Italy, and Mexico, Finley’s ceramics reflect a dialogue between contemporary portraiture and the timelessness of the vessel. The work honors craft traditions while asserting a distinctly modern narrative: the ceramic becomes a witness, a container, and a collaborator in portraiture.Kohshin Finley, a native Angeleno, has been steeped in creative expression since childhood,raised by artist and fashion designer parents who nurtured his early immersion in the arts. Recent solo exhibitions include Hummingbird at Barbati Gallery (Venice, IT) and Eight Artworks at Various Small Fires (Dallas, TX). Last year, a career-defining work by Finley was acquired by the Hammer Museum for its permanent collection. Finley’s work has been exhibited at institutions including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,the Hammer Museum, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Jack Shainman Gallery, and CFHill in Stockholm. His paintings and sculptures are held in esteemed public collections, including the Dallas Museum of Art, Studio Museum in Harlem, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Hammer Museum,Marciano Art Foundation and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He and his work have been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Cultured, Essence, and The Cut, and was named one of Fine Art Connoisseur’s “Five to Watch.”