For Frieze LA 2025 (Focus Booth F12), Dreamsong is pleased to present new paintings by Edgar Arceneaux (b. 1972, Los Angeles) made in Minneapolis during a 2024 residency organized by the Walker Art Center. Expanding on the artist’s Skinning the Mirror series, the Minneapolis paintings allude to a changing climate and mark a departure towards a distinct sense of place and landscape. Underpinning the series is a rigorous practice spanning over twenty years that explores race and collective memory in varying degrees of legibility and interrogates American history by probing its gaps, omissions and failures.
Works from Arceneaux’s Skinning the Mirror series have been shown widely, including at the Taipei Biennial, Susanne Vielmetter and Hauser & Wirth in Los Angeles. Arceneaux has had solo exhibitions at such institutions as The Kitchen, The Studio Museum Harlem, The Vera List Center at MIT, The Hammer Museum, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst in Basel, Switzerland, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Museum of Contemporary Art in Linz, Austria as well as numerous group exhibitions including Church for Sale, Works from the Haubrok Collection and the Nationalgalerie Collection at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart (2022), which took its name from a series of works by Arceneaux that show billboards from the bankruptcy threatened city of Detroit advertising the sale of church properties and, thus, the community-forming meeting rooms they provided. His work is represented in the permanent collections of major museums globally, including MOMA, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Centre Pompidou and The Walker Art Center, among other esteemed collections.
