Vielmetter Los Angeles

About the Gallery
Vielmetter Los Angeles was established in 2000 to present work by artists from a diverse range of genders and cultural backgrounds, many of whom are engaged in a rigorously conceptual practice. In 2019, the gallery expanded from Culver City to downtown Los Angeles.

Many artists have been represented from the beginning of their careers. The gallery presented the first solo exhibitions of Edgar Arceneaux, Rodney McMillian, and Wangechi Mutu, as well as the first Los Angeles solo exhibitions of Amy Sillman and Mickalene Thomas. Vielmetter Los Angeles has developed the careers of Math Bass, Andrea Bowers, Nicole Eisenman, Charles Gaines, Karl Haendel, Pope.L, Hugo McCloud, Elizabeth Neel, and more recently, April Bey, Sam Levi Jones, Deborah Roberts, and Robert Pruitt.

About the Presentation
Vielmetter Los Angeles will present a two-person presentation of new works by Andrea Bowers and Shanna Waddell for Independent. Both Los Angeles-based artists' practices are founded on feminist principles and operate from a perspective that centralizes a female gaze. In this intergenerational pairing, the artists share an interest in exploring interrelated issues of feminism and the environment. For Bowers, a feminist perspective has been central to her practice for over two decades – her most recent work hones in on visualizing eco-feminism by connecting resistance to patriarchal violence and environmental destruction. Waddell's practice, primarily in painting and more recently in sculpture, is rooted in her imagined utopian artist commune S/heness Society where women tend to the land growing flowers, farming, and painting the natural world around them in peaceful co-existence.