The artwork features a large, dark brown rectangular canvas with minimal details, showcasing the artist's focus on the interplay of color and form. The composition is simple yet powerful, drawing the viewer's attention to the subtlety of the surface texture and the nuanced tonal variations. The artwork's minimalist approach suggests an exploration of the relationship between materiality and abstraction, inviting the viewer to engage with the work on a contemplative level. The artist's intention may be to challenge traditional notions of representational art, encouraging a deeper appreciation for the inherent qualities of the medium itself. ...
Engaging with the interplay between body and material, Roksana Pirouzmand creates work across sculpture, ceramics, installation, and performance. Her practice examines how touch, weight, tension, and texture shape experiences of memory, connection, and communication. Emphasizing physicality and presence, Pirouzmand invites viewers to engage as both witnesses and participants, fostering an embodied response to her art. Her recent projects have turned inward, exploring intimate and multigenerational experiences of displacement, diaspora, and familial ties. Through evocative forms and gestures, she reflects on the lingering weight of exile and inherited memory. Her installations and performances often blur the lines between object and body, space and self, prompting questions about vulnerability, resilience, and the ways in which history lives in material. By challenging the conventions of how we move through and engage with space, Pirouzmand constructs environments that shift between stillness and movement, silence and interaction. Her works become sites of encounter—charged with emotional, sensory, and psychological depth—where presence, both physical and ancestral, is felt as much as it is seen. ...
Since 2009, François Ghebaly has presented an innovative, eclectic program of Los Angeles-based and international artists. With a history of identifying and championing diverse voices and emerging talent, the gallery’s roster has grown to include 27 artists and 2 artist estates, ranging from early career, such as Sharif Farrag and Ludovic Nkoth, to mid-career, like Christine Sun Kim, Meriem Bennani, Kelly Akashi, Farah Al Qasimi, and Genesis Belanger, to well established, including Sayre Gomez, Kathleen Ryan, Neïl Beloufa and Candice Lin as well as underground legends, like Patrick Jackson and Mike Kuchar. The gallery advances the reach of its artists’ visions by publishing exhibition catalogues and producing artist editions. Located since 2013 in a 12,000 square foot warehouse space in Downtown Los Angeles, the gallery is a mainstay of the burgeoning Arts District community, and recently expanded to New York's Lower East Side. François Ghebaly’s program demonstrates a commitment to challenging work across all media and to fostering the progressive, boundary-pushing practices of its artists. ...
