Vielmetter Los Angeles – contemporary art gallery

Vielmetter Los Angeles is delighted to welcome Patrick Eugène to the gallery’s program.

Patrick Eugène is a self-taught artist whose paintings are informed by the vibrancy of his Haitian heritage. His evocative portraits, framed in hand-carved wood, channel both the mundane and poised moments of interior life. They reveal a profound sense of empathy for stillness and a perspective shaped by the cultural enmeshment of Indigenous, French Colonial, and African aesthetics.Eugène’s sophisticated characters—composed without the use of a sitter—command respect.

Eugène shares, “My work explores human connection through a minimalist approach—using open, undefined spaces that invite viewers to engage without distraction or instruction.”

We look forward to commencing our relationship with a debut presentation at Art Basel Miami Beach 2026, followed by a solo exhibition in fall 2027.

Vielmetter Los Angeles is thrilled to welcome LaToya Ruby Frazier to the gallery’s program. We look forward to her debut solo exhibition in January 2027, which will mark the first gallery presentation of her work on the West Coast.

Frazier’s upcoming exhibition will debut a new body of work entitled FIRST 100 DAYS: A NEW CIVIC PORTRAITURE 2025–2027, a suite of 42 color transfer photographic portraits of everyday American citizens who mobilized in the nation’s capital to protest the impact of Trump’s executive orders during his first 100 days in office. With deep reverence and meticulous attention to detail, Frazier documents the people who contested the orders, tariffs, dismissals, funding freezes, deportations, pardons, institutional changes, and new definitions of citizenship, gender, history and national identity in the public arena. The portraits act as a kind of human counter-archive to the second administrative record and upend the notion that civic portraiture is only reserved for the elite to visually establish their authority or political legitimacy. Each print is created through a digital printmaking process in which the artist applies physical pressure to the image to transfer an inkjet-receptive film onto cotton watercolor paper, lending the surface a tactile and imperfect quality that mirrors the fragility of our democracy.

The new suite of photographs will be shown together with a project commissioned for Frazier’s 2024 survey at the Museum of Modern Art, Monuments of Solidarity, which focused on the renowned activist Dolores Huerta. Frazier spent time with Huerta and her extended family in California, documenting the extraordinary role Huerta has played in improving the lives of farmworkers and in shaping labor policy both on the state and national level.

Portrait of LaToya Ruby Frazier. Photo credit: Sean Eaton. Image courtesy of Carnegie Museum of Art.