Volume Gallery is participating in the 2025 edition of Felix Art Fair in Los Angeles with work by LA based artists, Tanya Aguiñiga, Ross Hansen, Christy Matson, and Matt Paweski. As well as works by US based artists, Ricki Dwyer and Jonathan Muecke.
Recent pieces by Tanya Aguiñiga are unconventional portraits–abstractions of the human experience. Cotton rope weavings with ceramic renditions of body parts woven into their rich surfaces represent the external and internal physical body as well as the metaphysical body.
Recent weavings by Ricki Dwyer are dipped in synthetic dye which separates into its component hues over the surface, simulating the chromatography process. This group of work is woven to appear torn apart as if left blowing in the wind, abstractions of deterioration, they reflect the looming erosion of our social fabric.
Ross Hansen is known for his subversive use of industrial production methods to form unique and animated design objects. His recent lighting pieces use hemp lacquered in resin and seem to defy gravity. Hansen embraces the natural qualities and texture of the fabric, which, when lit from behind, emanates a soft, diffuse light.
Jennefer Hoffmann’s emotional and intuitive ceramic practice produces sculptural forms that are open objects for contemplation. Recent pieces made in grief for the artist’s mother bloom like flowers with delicate petalled edges. Hoffmann offers them here as an extension to those experiencing loss.
Christy Matson’s recent abstractions allude to closely observable patterns in nature and Modernist paper cut-out collage with meticulously woven arrangements of elemental shapes. Matson begins her pieces with a sketch, collage, or watercolor that she translates into complex pixelized images to be woven on a Jacquard loom.
Jonathan Muecke’s elegant forms are hyper-specific in scale and material. Free from any of the traditional obligations of functionality common to most design practices, Muecke is interested in making unfamiliar and unknowable objects, introducing new forms to our collective visual vocabulary, finding shapes without precedent.
Matt Paweski is known for his immaculately fabricated aluminum sculptures that play with the space between 2D and 3D, art and design. This body of work is inspired by early 20th century Austrian designer Dagobert Peche, renowned for his use of ornament. Paweski has interpreted Peche’s sometimes inscrutable forms, referencing either their form, use, or quoting specific curvatures from the original designs.
Felix, co-founded in 2018 by Dean Valentine, Al Morán, and Mills Morán, is an art fair created with the intention to foster intimate experiences that prioritize conversation, collaboration, and community. Felix Art Fair is collaborating with Grief x Hope to support artists and art workers affected by the devastating Los Angeles fires of January 2025. For more information or to make a donation click here.