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Frieze Los Angeles 2024

FRIEZE LOS ANGELES 2024

David Kordansky Gallery
Booth B01 29 February–3 March 2024 Los Angeles
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David Kordansky Gallery is pleased to announce a solo presentation of new paintings by Sam McKinniss at Frieze Los Angeles 2024.

McKinniss brings a full range of responses to images he encounters on the internet or through other contemporary cultural outlets, making paintings in which a media-based world, flattened by repetition, commerce, and digital screens, comes alive with mystery, visual intimacy, and personal commitment. Selecting characters and scenes with specific, and often recognizable, representations in the popular imagination, he subtly twists the aims to which images were originally put, finding in them ciphers for current moods and anxieties.

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About the Artist

The images, figures, and environments that appear in the paintings of Sam McKinniss (b. 1985, Northfield, Minnesota) speak to the uncanny, unsettling atmospheres of the internet and popular culture. Though these images often emerge from a digital sphere characterised by extremes of spectacle and flatness, McKinniss transposes them into the vivid, humanist vocabulary of his chosen materials, which include not only the pigments and mediums with which he renders his compositions, but the emotion, desire, pathos, humour, and paradox he locates within them.

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