Almine Rech now represents Keita Morimoto in New York and Paris

June 4, 2026

Almine Rech is pleased to announce the representation of Keita Morimoto in New York and Paris, alongside a series of recent institutional acquisitions of the artist’s work.

Following his inaugural solo exhibition with Almine Rech New York in 2025, Morimoto’s work will be presented by the gallery at Art Basel in Switzerland this June, ahead of a solo exhibition at Almine Rech Paris in 2027.

"I have long been intrigued by the scenes depicted in Keita’s paintings, which are invariably set at night. Illuminated by the glow of the contemporary city, his figures belong to a generation born in the 1990s. They are part of an urban youth that discovers a sense of freedom after dark. Light has been a central subject for several artists from earlier generations represented by the gallery, and Keita brings a singular vision to it, one deeply rooted in the realities of the present day and conveyed through an exceptional command of painting."
— Almine Rech

Keita Morimoto (born 1990, Osaka, Japan) engages deeply with the techniques and themes of Baroque lighting, early 20th-century American Realism, and pre-modern Genre Painting. By referencing these historical movements, he reimagines contemporary urban life, transforming ordinary streets into extraordinary narratives. Through the symbolic use of light, he merges its sacred and natural connotations with the stark realities of consumerism and industrial culture, creating works that resonate with both historical depth and modern complexity.

photo: Haruta

David Zwirner now represents the Robert Therrien Estate

May 6, 2026

David Zwirner has announced exclusive global representation of the Robert Therrien Estate. Therrien’s work was recently celebrated in the largest museum exhibition of his work to date at The Broad in Los Angeles (22 November 2025 - 5 April 2026). The exhibition featured more than one hundred and twenty works spanning five decades.

Robert Therrien worked across a variety of mediums including sculpture, painting, photography, drawing, and installation. Over the course of five decades, he developed an array of motifs based on memory, distinguishing his carefully constructed imagery through a deeply imaginative sensibility, at once familiar and out of reach, allowing for multivalent, open-ended narratives to unfold. The artist submitted everyday objects and forms to a process of abstraction before bringing them back into focus in a new way, or—as in later works—enlarged objects such as tables, chairs, and stacked plates to an uncanny scale. Therrien emerged in Los Angeles in the 1970s, part of a generation of artists who were countering the detachment of the minimal and conceptual works coming out of New York with an accessible, distinctly West Coast vernacular.

Robert Therrien (1947–2019) was born in Chicago. He studied photography and printmaking at the Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara before earning a graduate degree at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1974. The artist remained in Los Angeles for the next forty-five years as an active member of the Southern California art scene.

photo: Leo Holub

George Herms (1935-2026)

May 5, 2026

L.A. Louver has announced the death of artist George Herms, who passed away last week at the age of 90.

Born in Woodland, CA in 1935, Herms moved to Los Angeles in 1955 when he was twenty years old. He took up residence in Topanga Canyon and soon fell in with the community of Beat poets, artists, and musicians, including Wallace Berman, Bob Alexander and others. These artists would become among Herms’s closest friends and collaborators.

In the late 1950s, Herms began his life-long devotion to assemblage. Poet Michael McClure later described Herms as “someone who is near saintly in his care for the objects that are put together.” The materials selected by Herms were almost always used and worn, embedded with the evidence of age and the patina of personal or shared histories. Through the combination of these remnants, Herms created objects representative of treasured moments, places, people or events, including The Alcove of Beginnings (1979, LACMA), The Berman Peace (1986, Walker Art Center), and The Librarian (1960, Norton-Simon Museum).

George Herms was one of the first artists to exhibit at L.A. Louver, with the solo exhibition George Herms: Works of Assemblage (1976). Over the years, he presented five solo exhibitions and took part in numerous group shows at the gallery. Additionally, in June 1992, coinciding with the exhibition Poem Makers: Wallace Berman, George Herms, and Jess, L.A. Louver published the facsimile edition of Wallace Berman’s Semina journal. George Herms—who aided Wallace and Shirley Berman with the original publication of the journal—oversaw each part of the facsimile printing process to ensure highest quality and veracity to the original journals.

Throughout his nine decades, George Herms worked across sculpture, paintings, prints, installation, and performance. He had notable retrospectives at the Newport Harbor Art Museum (1979) and The Santa Monica Museum of Art (2005, curated by Walter Hopps). He was awarded three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships (1968, 1977, 1984); the Guggenheim Fellowship in Sculpture (1983-84); and the prestigious Prix de Rome Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome (1982-83). His work is in numerous public and private collections, including the Menil Collection (Houston, TX); the Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY); the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, CA); and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA).

photo: Sue Henger

Galerie Peter Kilchmann announces representation of Matthias Odin

April 24, 2026

Galerie Peter Kilchmann is pleased to announce the representation of Matthias Odin.

The relationship to movement is omnipresent in my work, and I think also in my life but I feel that it is something inherent, a condition of being human: that vital impulse to move within an environment that itself changes around us, sometimes more, sometimes less, with varying intensity. What interests me is our porosity, to such fluctuation.

Matthias Odin was born in 1995 in Lyon, France and lives and works in Paris, France. While he engages with universal themes such as wandering, encounter, disorientation, self-construction, and adaptation, the work of Matthias Odin is deeply introspective. His practice revolves around assembling and transforming collected objects, which anchor reflections on relationships to spaces and perception. Experiences in marginalized and sometimes clandestine urban environments have profoundly shaped his reflections on the occupation of urban space and on the strategies individuals develop to inhabit it.

photo: Raphaël Massart

Alison Jacques now represents Sky Glabush

April 23, 2026

Alison Jacques is delighted to announce representation of Canadian painter Sky Glabush (b.1970, Alert Bay, British Columbia; lives and works in rural southwestern Ontario). The artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery will take place in November 2026.

‘The materials themselves have to guide the painting to present an image or idea that didn’t come from me’, Sky Glabush observes, ‘There’s no recipe, there’s no formula, there’s no direction. I never know if and when a painting is going to feel real or if it’s going to feel alive’. Paintings emerge through an intuitive, materially driven process in which landscape becomes less a subject than a platform for experimentation. Glabush continues, ‘If the world around you can become subject matter or inspiration, then there’s no limit because it’s inexhaustible’.

Glabush paints intuitive interpretations and emotional responses to landscape, which he experiences as a platform for experimentation. Images are not predetermined but arrive through an ongoing exploration of material, memory and sensation, pushing the work beyond its source material and allowing forms to develop through their own internal logic. Although recurrent elements – trees, flowers, fields or shifting horizons – appear throughout Glabush’s work, the paintings resist fixed narratives, instead offering spaces of discovery that unfold gradually through colour, gesture and texture. The work evokes a sense of place, moving between familiarity and discovery. As he notes, ‘I hope visitors take away a feeling of being transported – not just to a physical place, but to a state of mind where they feel a connection to nature and the passage of time’.

Felix & Spear announces representation of Errol Lloyd

April 20, 2026

Felix & Spear Gallery is pleased to announce representation of Errol Lloyd

Errol Lloyd (b 1943, Lucea) is a Jamaican-born British artist, writer, and illustrator working across painting, sculpture, and literature. He was educated at Munro College, Jamaica, where he excelled academically and in sport, representing the school in athletics, hockey, gymnastics, football, and debating, serving as Head Boy and gaining distinctions in all A Level art examinations. A formative influence was visiting the studio of African American sculptor Richmond Barthé, who settled in Jamaica in 1948.

Lloyd moved to the UK in 1963 to study law at the Council of Legal Education, during which he produced commissioned bronze portrait busts of figures including C. L. R. James, Sir Garfield Sobers, Richard Small, Lord Pitt, John La Rose, and Linton Kwesi Johnson. His bust of John La Rose was exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery (2004), and his painted portrait of Kamau Brathwaite, commissioned by Pembroke College, Cambridge (2019), is on permanent display in its dining hall.
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He was active in the Caribbean Artists Movement (1966–1972), a key force in Black British art, later designing book covers for Bogle-L’Ouverture Publications, New Beacon Books, and Pearson Longman, and teaching Advanced Painting at Camden Arts Centre (1975–1976).

Alexis Ralaivao joins Pilar Corrias

April 9, 2026

Pilar Corrias is delighted to announce the representation of Alexis Ralaivao (b. 1991, Rennes; lives and works in Rennes, France), in partnership with Olney Gleason, New York.

Ralaivao’s first UK solo exhibition, Flirter avec l’abstrait, is currently on view at Pilar Corrias’s Conduit Street gallery in Mayfair, London, through 23 May 2026.

Ralaivao’s intimate, diaristic oil paintings combine classical traditions with a distinctly contemporary sensibility. Drawing on Old Master techniques associated with 17th-century Dutch painting and its meticulous attention to fabric and surface, his work is marked by a precise and attentive gaze, capturing fleeting gestures and lending them both immediacy and a sense of timelessness. The paintings that emerge draw out the emotional depth of everyday scenes, inviting sustained looking, at once revealing and withholding.

Pilar Corrias commented: “We are delighted to be working with Alexis. The reception of his current exhibition at the gallery, his first UK solo show, has been phenomenal, and it has been an honour to introduce his work to new audiences. Alexis is one of the most exciting young painters working today, distinguished by a masterful handling of paint and a nuanced, contemporary reimagining of art historical traditions.”

photo: Charlie Rubin

NıCOLETTı announces representation of Tarek Lakhrissi

March 31, 2026

NıCOLETTı is delighted to announce representation of Tarek Lakhrissi (b. 1992, Châtellerault, FR), in collaboration with Galerie Allen, Paris, FR.

Tarek Lakhrissi is a French-Moroccan artist whose practice spans video, installation, performance, and poetry. Grounded in literature and informed by pop and visual culture, his work critically examines the ways language, desire, race, and power shape bodies and subjectivities. Through symbolic and affective forms, he constructs speculative narratives that challenge dominant representations and foreground questions of visibility, vulnerability, and otherness.

Lakhrissi’s first solo exhibition at NıCOLETTı, SPIT, inaugurated the gallery space in Shoreditch in 2024. In 2026, the artist will present a major commission at Bold Tendencies, London, UK.

photo: Horst Diekgerdes

Pat Steir, 1938 – 2026

March 26, 2026

Hauser & Wirth have announced the passing of New York-based artist Pat Steir, shortly before her 88th birthday.

One of the great innovators across contemporary painting, drawing and printmaking, Steir rose to prominence in the late 1970s and 1980s for her iconographic canvases and immersive installations. She gained critical acclaim for her inventive approach to painting, including the rigorous pouring technique she developed for her Waterfall series, in which she harnessed gravity and gesture to achieve works of remarkable lyricism.

Steir is survived by her husband Joost Elffers and niece Lily Sukoneck-Cohen.

photo: Grace Roselli