Nick Meek: Unreliable Memories

ARTSY | NOVEMBER 27, 2020 - FEBRUARY 14, 2021

De Soto Gallery presents Unreliable Memories by Nick Meek, an exhibition that explores how the visual mythology of Hollywood shapes conceptions of the past and informs our ideas about the future. Online exhibition exclusively at Artsy. 

Osheen Harruthoonyan: Uchronie Fragments

ARTSY | MAY 14 - AUGUST 14, 2020

De Soto Gallery presents Osheen Harruthoonyan’s Uchronie Fragments, inspired by memories of a family history so altered by re-telling that it’s morphed into a hypothetical past. Online exhibition exclusively at Artsy. 

The Photography Show presented by AIPAD

PIER 94 | NEW YORK CITY | APRIL 3 - 7, 2019

For AIPAD 2019, De Soto Gallery presented two series of experimental cyanotype-based works by Ivan Forde. Utilizing a wide variety of photo-based and print-making processes, Forde retells stories using epic poetry as a narrative framework to create detailed vignettes where he casts himself as every character. His non-linear interpretations of time-worn tales open the possibility of new archetypes and alternative endings, connecting the personal to the universal.

PHOTO LA

BARKER HANGER | LOS ANGELES | JANUARY 31 - FEBRUARY 3, 2019

For Photo LA 2019, De Soto Gallery brought together works by Connie Samaras, Alma Haser, and Jonas N.T. Becker. Each of the artists contemplates nature, imagining the implications of possible futures through the lens of a metaphorical present.

The Photography Show presented by AIPAD

PIER 92/94 | NEW YORK CITY | APRIL 5-8, 2018

For the 2018 edition of The Photography Show presented by AIPAD, De Soto Gallery presented works by Osamu Yokonami: images from his ongoing Assembly series (2012-2022) alongside a 75-piece installation of portraits from his prodigious 1000 Children project (2010-2013). Created in tandem, the twin series consider conceptions of selfhood and the subtleties of human emotion.

PHOTOFAIRS San Francisco

FORT MASON FESTIVAL PAVILION | SAN FRANCISCO | FEBRUARY 23-25, 2018

For Photofairs San Francisco 2018, De Soto Gallery presented a selection of works by Alma Haser and Denis Darzacq— abstracted portraits from Haser’s Cosmic Surgery and Within 15 Minutes series and formalist abstractions from Darzacq’s Contreformes series. Both series are rooted in photo/sculpture experimentations and share a similar preoccupation with the intersection of nature, culture, consumerism, and multiplicity.

The Photography Show presented by AIPAD

PIER 92/94 | NEW YORK CITY | MARCH 30 - APRIL 2, 2017

For the 2017 edition of The Photography Show presented by AIPAD, De Soto Gallery featured a solo presentation of Alma Haser’s Cosmic Surgery — 2D portraits, 3D portraits, and free standing paper sculptures.

PHOTOFAIRS San Francisco

FORT MASON FESTIVAL PAVILION | SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 27-29, 2017

For the inaugural edition of PHOTOFAIRS San Francisco 2017, De Soto Gallery presented a selection of works by Denis Darzacq, Laura Plageman, and Osamu Yokonami that bring together distinct but interrelated pairs of series by each artist.

Alma Haser: Cosmic Surgery

DE SOTO GALLERY | ABBOT KINNEY | NOVEMBER 6 - DECEMBER 31, 2016

De Soto Gallery presents Alma Haser’s Cosmic Surgery — 2D portraits, 3D portraits, and free standing paper sculptures. Cosmic Surgery imagined as a medical procedure that people can choose in the not so distant future for aesthetic enhancement, mood alteration, and to thwart increasingly pervasive methods of surveillance. Combining photography with collage and origami, Haser's playfully odd portraits consider the link between identity and image in a culture of visual bombardment. She suggests a fundamental shift in the way we understand ourselves and the world around us, picturing the possibility of a trans-humanist future.

Brian Paumier: Up, Down, Up, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, and Start

DE SOTO GALLERY | ABBOT KINNEY | SEPTEMBER 11 - OCTOBER 23, 2016

De Soto Gallery presents works by Brian Paumier — a series of prints and light boxes that mix photography with reworked 80’s video game graphics and custom motorcycle fabrications. Paumier’s work addresses the mechanics of memory and nostalgia, how recollections are reconstructed over time, and become iconic through repetition. 

Denis Darzacq & Anna Lüneman: Doublemix

DE SOTO GALLERY | ABBOT KINNEY | NOVEMBER 6 - DECEMBER 31, 2016

De Soto Gallery presents Doublemix, an exhibition by gallery artist, Denis Darzacq, and Anna Lüneman. Lüneman’s sculptural abstractions are embedded directly into Darzacq’s laser-cut photographs. The arbitrariness of the photo/sculpture pairings has a neutralizing effect that short-circuits the usual process of reading an image. Selections from Darzacq’s La Chute series are featured upstairs.

Sadie Wechsler: Part 1: Redo

DE SOTO GALLERY | ABBOT KINNEY BLVD | FEBRUARY 27 - APRIL 30, 2016

De Soto Gallery presents photographs by Sadie Wechsler. Part 1: Redo, a collection of images that follows disparate threads of possible futures, picturing an off-kilter world that tends toward extremes.