This contemporary art piece features a striking vase-like sculpture composed of intricate woven patterns. The artwork showcases a gradual color transition from light gray at the top to a warm, earthy orange at the base, creating a visually captivating gradient effect. The concentric rings of woven textures, ranging from smooth to textured, contribute to the sculptural quality and tactile nature of the piece. The artist's skilled use of weaving techniques and the considered color palette suggest a focus on traditional craft practices, yet the minimalist design and abstract form give the artwork a modern, contemporary sensibility. This piece may explore themes of natural materials, process, and the interplay between function and artistic expression. ...
Sarah Rosalena’s work bridges Indigenous craft traditions and contemporary technology, creating hybrid forms that challenge boundaries between handcraft and digital innovation. Drawing on her Wixárika heritage, she integrates ancestral weaving, beadwork, and basketry with tools such as Jacquard looms, 3D printing, and digital design software. By blending hand-dyed natural pigments with synthetic, pixelated color palettes, Rosalena produces textiles, ceramics, and beadwork that explore the shared logic between weaving and computational code, highlighting the dualities of warp and weft alongside binary structures. Her practice interrogates the intersections of tradition, technology, and power, questioning colonial frameworks embedded in scientific and artistic knowledge. Rosalena’s work examines how high and low technologies, human and nonhuman processes, and ancient and future forms can coexist, revealing hidden systems and infrastructures beneath everyday objects. Through generative forms, her pieces evoke weaving patterns, coil pot techniques, and pixel-based imagery that foreground both materiality and conceptual depth. By combining craft, computation, and experimental media, Rosalena reimagines Indigenous cosmologies within contemporary contexts. Her work reflects on climate change, artificial intelligence, and extractive industries, offering expansive, visionary perspectives that reorient viewers to the infinite landscapes of land, sky, and cultural knowledge. ...
Various Small Fires (Los Angeles /Dallas /Seoul) began as a series of conversations with artists and curators in Esther Kim Varet’s Venice Beach kitchen while working on her doctoral dissertation. VSF debuted in Hollywood as an official gallery in 2015 with a roster of artists and its current Johnston MarkLee Architects-designed building. The Hollywood gallery contains three exhibition spaces, a unique sound corridor, and an outdoor gallery. VSF’s exhibition program explores several curatorial lines: climate, equality, and an international conversation. The gallery is known for offering artists debut shows, creating intergenerational conversations among the artists on its roster, and solidifying artists’ legacies within art history. In 2019, VSF opened a second location in the Hannam neighbourhood of Seoul, South Korea, followed recently this Spring by VSFs third outpost in Dallas, Texas. While Varet has very personal connections to both locations, they are also superlative art communities. These expansions emphasise the gallery’s commitment to innovation and global dialogue in the twenty-first century. In 2021, VSF became a member of the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA). ...
