Drag, monoprint #1, 2020
Relief Ink on Rives BFK
27.5 x 22 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Jessica Silverman, San Francisco

https://jessicasilvermangallery.com/davina-semo/

Davina Semo (b. 1981, Washington, DC) earned her BA at Brown University in 2003 and her MFA from the University of California, San Diego in 2006. Semo has shown extensively throughout the United States and Europe, including solo exhibitions at Jessica Silverman Gallery (San Francisco) and Marlborough Gallery (New York). Semo had a 2020 solo exhibition at the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art in Napa, CA, and was selected for the Public Art Fund in Brooklyn Bridge Park, May 2020. Group exhibitions include a two person show with Deborah Remington at Parts & Labor Beacon, TOUCHPIECE at Hannah Hoffman Gallery (Los Angeles) and Show Me as I Want to Be Seen at The Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco). Semo has also been featured in shows at San Francisco Arts Commission, Greene Naftali Gallery (New York), and the Bridgehampton Biennial, curated by Bob Nickas. Davina Semo lives and works in San Francisco, CA. Semo is represented by Jessica Silverman Gallery (San Francisco), Marlborough Gallery (New York) and RIBORDY THETAZ (Geneva).

"Davina has mastered materials and I find her work so incredibly inspiring. Her manipulation of different mediums form various shapes, creating dimensions that keep you captured and wanting to see more." - Curator Arthur Lewis

https://jessicasilvermangallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2021-January_Semo_Artnet-News.pdf

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the film is cut, 2019
Acrylic and Marble Dust on Canvas
14 x 11 x 1.5 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
This artwork has been generously discounted exclusively for fresh stART.

https://vielmetter.com/artists/nick-aguayo

In this body of work, Aguayo presents a series of paintings whose style is evidently rooted in the process of collage - thick impasto surfaces and textural areas of built up and removed paint reveal layers of the compositions which appear both highly orchestrated and invigoratingly improvised.

Various shapes recur throughout the compositions, like a cast of characters in a sequence of vignettes which both function as autonomous objects and when seen together suggest a greater constellation of ideas. The shapes (sawtooth, halfmoon, dots, rectangles) appear in both positive and negative forms and their geometry is rendered more human-like via their organic, irregular edges.

Nick Aguayo (b. 1984) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. He received an MFA from the University of California Irvine in 2012 and a BFA from UCLA in 2007. His work has been featured in exhibitions at New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM; The Pit, Los Angeles, CA; Samuel Freeman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; the Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA; Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; LAXART, Los Angeles, CA; Autonomie, Los Angeles, CA; and the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA.

"I was introduced to Nick's practice by Susanne Vielmetter and I have been a big fan of his for a number of years. His works continue to expand upon the dimensionality of abstract art. " -Curator Arthur Lewis

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Darkroom Mirror (_2220750), 2018
Archival Pigment Print
13 x 10 inches
2 of 5 + 2 AP
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
This artwork has been generously discounted exclusively for fresh stART.

Frame is included as a courtesy - Value of frame is approximately $400.

https://vielmetter.com/artists/paul-mpagi-sepuya

These new works, made in Sepuya's Los Angeles studio between 2017 and early 2020 represent a subtle evolution of the artist's thoughts about how pictures are made, seen, and circulated. In several of the works on view, multiple images of alternate points of view appear in the on screens of sitters' and collaborators' iPhones, reflected in the mirror that is the technical focus of all of Sepuya's photographs. In others, the focus is on the space of the studio itself, rendered strange and indeterminate by multiple reflections and a proliferation of images in the form of test prints adhered to the wall, arranged on tables, or otherwise visible in the space of the image. Following his participation in the 2019 Whitney Biennial, where Sepuya included not only images made by his camera in his studio, but also images made by other artists in their cameras in his studio, several potential conversations around pictures emerge in this body of work.

Paul Mpagi Sepuya (b. 1982, San Bernardino, CA) received an MFA in photography at UCLA in 2016. From 2000 - 2014 Sepuya resided in New York City, receiving a BFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2004. In 2019 a survey of Sepuya's work was presented in a solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis that traveled to the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, Texas. The corresponding monograph is forthcoming. Other recent solo exhibitions include "Double Enclosure," FOAM Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; "Portraits / Positions," KMAC Museum, Louisville, KY; and "STUDIO WORK," Platform Centre for Photography, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. Recent group exhibitions include "Masculinities: Through Photography and Film from the 1960s to Now," Barbican, London; "In Focus: The Camera," Getty Museum, Los Angeles; "Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now," Guggenheim Museum, New York; the 2019 Whitney Biennial; "Being: New Photography 2018," Museum of Modern Art, New York; and "Trigger" at the New Museum, New York. Sepuya's work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the International Center for Photography, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Carnegie Museum, among others.

"Paul's photography is a powerful testament from an artist that has carved a new lane for himself. His images capture incredibly intimate moments and demand that you examine both technique and subject. I am big fan of Paul and I know he will continue to positively impact this medium." -Curator Arthur Lewis

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