Emilia Yin

Emilia Yin is a curator and the founder and director of Make Room, a contemporary art gallery in Los Angeles. Yin has a keen interest in cultural identity issues, intersectional feminism, and the complicating binary structures within the related social discourse. She founded Make Room in 2018 with an all-female group exhibition, marking the start of her committed support to female artists' practices. The diverse and experimental program at Make Room has received critical acclaim in the gallery's first two years of operation, with projects featured in ARTFORUM, FLAUNT, and the LA Times among others. Yin studied curatorial practices and Art History at the University of Southern California, and in addition to running the gallery she is a guest contributor to Wallpaper* Magazine.

Hidetaka Suzuki

Born in Hokkaido, Japan. Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan. 2014 MFA, 2012 BFA, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan.

"I resonate with Hidetaka Suzuki’s quote about image-making and its function—he says, 'Our future is woven from these fragments.' Perceiving painting as a subjective glimpse, each of his works seems to occupy a space somewhere between the mundane and the uncanny: the cross-eyed pigeon, the hairy neck of a Geisha, or aggressive fire coming out of an ordinary stove. The brushwork of his paintings is tender and playful, as if subtly reminding you not to forget the absurdity of our own existence, but with a dose of love and care.

Artwork Image: Diff, 2020. Oil on canvas. 46 x 36 in.

Lior Modan

Born 1983 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. 2013 MFA, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia. 2009 BFA, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel.

"Looking at Lior Modan’s work is like gazing into another time and dimension. His relief works, using velvet fabric and epoxy putty, allow the sculpted surface to engage with ambient light and environment. I think about my childhood experience, playing with the surface of a velvet shirt—the changing surface as it’s rubbed in different directions. Each work presents an encapsulated moment, as if an invisible hand placed a velvet cover over whatever was happening—the scene quiets down, leaving no words, only marks. The spaces in these works often appear to be domestic, yet each is highly specific and activated with curious objects."

Artwork Image: Heat Wave, 2018. Velvet, nitrile, epoxy putty in cast rubber artist frame. 22 x 18 x 1 in.

Isabelle Albuquerque

Born 1981 in Los Angeles, California. Lives and works in Los Angeles. 2003 Barnard College, New York.

"What draws me to Isabelle Albuquerque’s works is their radical yet seductive character. Her practice creates complex conversations around the body as a stage and vessel for desire and power. At first, many of the forms in her sculptures seem to be typical female statues, familiar from our collective memory of how the narrative of the female body is told throughout history. Looking closer, however, we see the figures as a embodiment of strength and unapologetic intimacy. Casting her own body in various headless statues in different gestures, Albuquerque invites us to co-configure our experience beyond just the physical and emotional."

Orgy For 10 People In One Body: 2 (Front View), 2020. Resin, Wax, Flame. 28 x 23 x 25 1/2 in.