Featured Exhibitions


2025 Programming will be announced next January
“I” of the Beholder: Dain Yoon
Presented by LP Gallery
Booth 1113/1212
Dain Yoon is a South Korean fine artist, currently based in New York City. Widely acclaimed for her illusion painting on her face and body, and her prolific work with a variety of media, Ms. Yoon explores the complex portrayal of raw emotion filtered through the unique personal diversity of each individual. Yoon has participated in a wide variety of collaborative projects. She has collaborated with artists, including Maurizio Cattelan, Halsey, and James Blake; worked with museums including the Tate Modern and the Van Gogh Museum; and garnered significant attention in media, appearing on The Ellen Degeneres Show and in publications such as Vogue, Dazed, TOILETPAPER, and The New York Times Magazine.

Yoon views her face as the strongest and most sensitive part of her body: a canvas on which she can deliver her most delicate emotions. Her eyes in particular have always been a key object or primary focal point of her works. For this work, Ms. Yoon chose the title ““I” of the Beholder” to reflect the inherently and unavoidably unique way that each person processes both art and emotion. She used time-lapses of herself in an anxious and agitated state to capture the full spectrum of the emotions revealed through her eyes. Yoon chose large format oil paintings as the medium with the intention to evoke the same feeling of unease in the viewer. The paintings are presented without wood paneling, the same format in which they were created, to convey the raw and delicate nature of the work.
Young Masters
Presented by Cynthia Corbett Gallery
Booth 1401
Young Masters is a not-for-profit international initiative which was launched in 2009 by gallerist Cynthia Valianti Corbett, founder of Cynthia Corbett Gallery.

Our mission is to support emerging artists from across the world, bringing their work to a wider audience through a triennial Art Prize independently judged by an illustrious panel. Young Masters has an international programme of touring exhibitions and fairs as well as maintaining a vibrant online presence that showcases our wide network.

This unique initiative highlights emerging artists of any gender, age, or nationality, working in any media, whose work responds to the art of the past.

In 2014 the Young Masters Maylis Grand Ceramic Prize was added to focus more attention on the growing interest in the collection of contemporary craft. 2017 saw the launch of the inaugural Young Masters Emerging Women Award. The fifth edition and 10th Anniversary Exhibition of the Prize took place in October 2019. In 2023 Young Masters returned after Covid-19 with its 6th edition of the Prize and its most culturally diverse and woman led open call yet with 75% of applicants being female-identifying artists.

Young Masters has provided a launching pad for over 350 artists alumni from all over the world. Important alumni include British ceramicist and curator Matt Smith, British painter Flora Yukhnovich, South-African artists Gigs Kgole and ceramicist Lucille Lewin, artist duo Ghost of a Dream and US-based Iranian Azita Moradkhani.
The Soul of Your City
Presented by Fabrik Projects Gallery
Booth 1404
Welcome to ‘The Soul of Your City’ exhibition, a unique visual journey that brings to life the diverse and intimate essences of cities from around the globe.

This exhibition is the culmination of a global photography competition organized by Fabrik Projects Gallery in Los Angeles, aimed at capturing the hidden spirit and true identity of cities and communities through the lenses of local photographers.

‘The Soul of Your City’ competition was born out of a desire to explore and reveal the unseen aspects of urban living. We invited photographers worldwide to look beyond the familiar landmarks and tourist attractions and instead focus on the aspects of city life that are often overlooked. This included capturing the subtle interplay of light and shadow in the alleys, the vibrant life in local markets, the architectural heritage in the streets, and the candid moments of everyday life.

Our call for entries resonated with photographers from various corners of the world, each bringing their unique perspective and creative approach. The resulting submissions are a rich tapestry of images that tell stories of culture, history, community, and personal experiences within urban settings.

The works showcased in this exhibition are the winners of the competition, selected for their exceptional ability to convey the ‘soul of their cities.’ These images are not just photographs — they are windows into the diverse, dynamic, and intricate tapestries of urban life. They invite viewers to go on a visual journey, traveling continents and cultures, to experience the essence of cities as seen through the eyes of their residents.

This exhibition at the LA Art Show presents these winning entries, offering attendees an opportunity to engage with and appreciate the myriad facets of urban environments. It’s an honor to bring these perspectives to such a prestigious platform, allowing the public to connect with cities’ souls through the art of photography.

We thank all the photographers who participated in the ‘Soul of Your City’ competition and congratulate the winners whose work is exhibited here. Their contributions have made this exhibition a testament to the power of photography in capturing and conveying the beauty of our world’s cities.
Visible Sound: Wish Into the Wind by Choi Sori
Presented by Art in Dongsan
Booth 1111/1210
Art in Dongsan is pleased to feature a special live art performance by acclaimed artist Choi Sori. “Visible Sound: Wish Into the Wind,” is a multimedia piece that invites us to reflect on the origins of life and the majesty of nature.

Through drumming and manipulation of metal surfaces, Choi Sori creates an abstract interplay of light, color, and sound that seems to materialize the invisible energies that animate our planet. The surfaces reflect rays of light in shifting patterns depending on the movement of viewers within the space.

Sori conveys the idea that all matter and energy in the world has its own essence and message. He sees himself as a creative messenger, translating these messages into perceptual experiences that harness sound, rhythm, and the visual arts.

This performance also represents Sori’s lifelong creative philosophy of harmonious coexistence with the natural environment. Created in coordination with the seasonal changes in his native Korea over multiple years, the Wind series, Kalpa, and Fire Paintings on view alongside the performance emerge from a meditative collaboration between artist and Mother Nature.

We hope this performance and exhibition provides a mindful escape from everyday concerns, reminding us of the ephemeral beauty of the natural forces that sustain life on our precious planet.
Juan Miguel Quiñones
Presented by Pigment Gallery
Booth 813/912
Quiñones is a self-taught artist who began in the field of restoration, an approach that helped him to understand the know-how of the old masters, learning all the traditional techniques of stone carving developed from ancient Rome to the Renaissance. An observer and connoisseur of the popular, Quiñones combines his particular sense of humor with the use of precious stones, the most refined technical skill and a profound knowledge of the materials he works with to create trompe l’oeil works that break down the barrier between the everyday object and the work of art.

The artist applies his work in stone to postmodern languages and themes, present urban languages that swing between illusion and memory and allows him to delve into antagonistic concepts such as reality, fiction, artifice or verisimilitude. Consciously, his works elude a direct or closed interpretation, forcing the viewer to project his or her own memories. Very rich in meanings, the evocative object and the material-conceptual trompe l’oeil are the most important material-conceptual. The references used go beyond the recurrent themes of urban art, hence the enormous complexity of Quiñones’ work. As iconic skateboards or surfboards represent elements detonated from evocation. The warm afternoons of southern Spain, from El Palmar to Estepona. But they are also signs of the end of pubescent innocence and the beginning of a new period, adolescence, in which human beings are reluctant to leave forever the domains of playfulness.
The World House Mural
Presented by Robert Vargas
Booth 309
In honor of Black History Month, acclaimed artist Robert Vargas will create this mural on site inspired by one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s last books, The World House.

King imagines the world as a large house in which we must learn somehow to live with each other in peace. We are facing converging global crises – a horrific pandemic, the growing threat of world war, climate change, inequality both in the U.S. and globally, the continuing scourge of systemic racism and tensions in the U.S. brought on by elections later this year.

Vargas brings his dynamic approach to portraiture and re-imagines this inherited large house on canvas. As King writes, “A great ‘world house’ in which we have to live together — Black and white, easterner and westerner, gentile and Jew, Catholic and Protestant, Muslim and Hindu – a family unduly separated in ideas, culture and interest, who, because we can never again live apart, must learn somehow to live with each other in peace.” Robert Vargas brings necessary attention and healing through this mural in the spirit of mindfulness, and creating art for the greater good of mankind.


2023
Evocation In Light: Philip Vaughan
Presented by bG Gallery
Booth 1303
English artist Philip Vaughan first became interested in neon and light art while at Chelsea Art School in London, during a course on the theory of light and color. He was intrigued when he learned that paint mixes differently than light does, as well as by the idea of using light as a medium itself to make art. Combining this with his love of sculpture and installation, he began experimenting with all three.

While at Chelsea art school, he created a piece where three incandescent light sources spun and projected colored light on the walls, mixing the light’s colors as they spun and combined. Later he read a book by Cornwall Klein, who was experimenting with light projection and synesthesia.

Around this time, Vaughan attended a lecture given by Buckminster Fuller and shortly after that started to experiment with geodesic structures himself. He made a group of models of them and eventually started to incorporate linear lights. This work culminated in a sculpture for the Hayward Gallery on London’s Southbank, the Neon Tower whose neon lights would dim and change according to the speed and direction of the wind, reflecting its environment. After building the sculpture for the Hayward Gallery Neon Tower, he also built an 80-foot diameter hemispherical inflatable dome theater with projected light shows for entrepreneur and filmmaker John Bloomfield.

Since moving to the United States, he worked for a while at Walt Disney Imagineering where he continued to learn about lighting, theatrics, computer controls and construction. Vaughan has continued to create art and experiment with neon, sculpture, and architecture as art and technology alike evolve. He continues to plan and build public sculptures, using light and other media.