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Vielmetter Los Angeles invites you to join artist Edgar Arceneaux for a two part event encompassing a walkthrough of his exhibition We Are Gods, currently on view at the gallery, followed by an interactive presentation and discussion entitled, How to Present the Unrepresentable.

Saturday, May 23, 2026
Walkthrough: 1pm - 2pm
Coffee and Pastries: 2pm - 2:30pm
Interactive Presentation: 2:30pm - 3:30pm

Part One
We Are Gods Exhibition Walkthrough
Arceneaux will lead a conversation through his exhibition focused on the themes of the show and the skinning the mirror process that he created.

Part Two
How to Present the Unrepresentable
Arceneaux will breakdown the methods and approaches he uses to express ideas that avoid the clichés of representation and the pitfalls of the illustrative impulse. Touching upon key projects from the last three decades of his practice, The Triadic Series (1997-2007), Drawings of Removal (2001-Present), and Until Until Until... (2015-Present), Arceneaux encourages guests to bring a notebook or sketchbook so that they may draw and diagram along with him.

Light refreshments, paper and pencils will also be provided.

Portrait of artist Edgar Arceneaux. Photo credit: Andrea Katheder. (L). Edgar Arceneaux, “We Are Gods 3,” 2026, Silver nitrate, acrylic paint on canvas, 32” x 22” x 1 ¹⁄₂” [HxWxD] Photo credit: Brica Wilcox (R).

@edgar_three

Our new publication is here! Check out details and snag your limited edition copy at link in bio. Join us with Edgar Arceneaux, visiting from LA, this Sunday 5/17 3-5pm to celebrate the launch at Dreamsong’s Annex - entrance next door to the gallery at 1235 4th Street NE.

Hey Family

Drop everything you’re doin’ so you can come to my opening this Saturday!
WE ARE GODS
May 9th from 4-6pm
@👇🏼
Vielmetter Los Angeles
1700 S Santa Fe Ave #101,
Los Angeles, CA 90021

On the occasion of the exhibition, curator and writer Jenelle Porter reflects on Arceneaux’s newest body of work:

“In 2020, Edgar Arceneaux added process painting to his multimedia art practice. The paintings included in We Are Gods continue this sustained inquiry of the intersection of abstraction and materiality. The exhibition title alludes to a metaphysical continuum that connects life and death. This is the artist’s third gathering of Skinning the Mirror, an ongoing series of paintings composed of acrylic and mirror on canvas. Making paintings from small to mural size, Arceneaux tests material processes against scale as a means to consider a body in relation to vision, and in relation to making. The paintings comprising We Are Gods demonstrate Arceneaux’s expanding investigations of expression via color and composition.

Hey Family

Drop everything you’re doin’ so you can come to my opening this Saturday!
WE ARE GODS
May 9th from 4-6pm
@👇🏼
Vielmetter Los Angeles
1700 S Santa Fe Ave #101,
Los Angeles, CA 90021

On the occasion of the exhibition, curator and writer Jenelle Porter reflects on Arceneaux’s newest body of work:

“In 2020, Edgar Arceneaux added process painting to his multimedia art practice. The paintings included in We Are Gods continue this sustained inquiry of the intersection of abstraction and materiality. The exhibition title alludes to a metaphysical continuum that connects life and death. This is the artist’s third gathering of Skinning the Mirror, an ongoing series of paintings composed of acrylic and mirror on canvas. Making paintings from small to mural size, Arceneaux tests material processes against scale as a means to consider a body in relation to vision, and in relation to making. The paintings comprising We Are Gods demonstrate Arceneaux’s expanding investigations of expression via color and composition.

Hey Family

Drop everything you’re doin’ so you can come to my opening this Saturday!
WE ARE GODS
May 9th from 4-6pm
@👇🏼
Vielmetter Los Angeles
1700 S Santa Fe Ave #101,
Los Angeles, CA 90021

On the occasion of the exhibition, curator and writer Jenelle Porter reflects on Arceneaux’s newest body of work:

“In 2020, Edgar Arceneaux added process painting to his multimedia art practice. The paintings included in We Are Gods continue this sustained inquiry of the intersection of abstraction and materiality. The exhibition title alludes to a metaphysical continuum that connects life and death. This is the artist’s third gathering of Skinning the Mirror, an ongoing series of paintings composed of acrylic and mirror on canvas. Making paintings from small to mural size, Arceneaux tests material processes against scale as a means to consider a body in relation to vision, and in relation to making. The paintings comprising We Are Gods demonstrate Arceneaux’s expanding investigations of expression via color and composition.

Hey Family

Drop everything you’re doin’ so you can come to my opening this Saturday!
WE ARE GODS
May 9th from 4-6pm
@👇🏼
Vielmetter Los Angeles
1700 S Santa Fe Ave #101,
Los Angeles, CA 90021

On the occasion of the exhibition, curator and writer Jenelle Porter reflects on Arceneaux’s newest body of work:

“In 2020, Edgar Arceneaux added process painting to his multimedia art practice. The paintings included in We Are Gods continue this sustained inquiry of the intersection of abstraction and materiality. The exhibition title alludes to a metaphysical continuum that connects life and death. This is the artist’s third gathering of Skinning the Mirror, an ongoing series of paintings composed of acrylic and mirror on canvas. Making paintings from small to mural size, Arceneaux tests material processes against scale as a means to consider a body in relation to vision, and in relation to making. The paintings comprising We Are Gods demonstrate Arceneaux’s expanding investigations of expression via color and composition.

Event reminder for tomorrow May 23rd!

Vielmetter Los Angeles invites you to join artist Edgar Arceneaux for a two part event encompassing a walkthrough of his exhibition We Are Gods, currently on view at the gallery, followed by an interactive presentation and discussion entitled, How to Present the Unrepresentable.

Walkthrough: 1pm - 2pm
Coffee and Pastries: 2pm - 2:30pm
Interactive Presentation: 2:30pm - 3:30pm

Part One
We Are Gods Exhibition Walkthrough
Arceneaux will lead a conversation through his exhibition focused on the themes of the show and the skinning the mirror process that he created.

Part Two
How to Present the Unrepresentable
Arceneaux will breakdown the methods and approaches he uses to express ideas that avoid the clichés of representation and the pitfalls of the illustrative impulse. Touching upon key projects from the last three decades of his practice, The Triadic Series (1997-2007), Drawings of Removal (2001-Present), and Until Until Until... (2015-Present), Arceneaux encourages guests to bring a notebook or sketchbook so that they may draw and diagram along with him.

Light refreshments, paper and pencils will also be provided.

Photo: Jeff McLane

@edgar_three

Edgar Arceneaux and Frank Lawson on "A Western Audition," his new theatrical experiment co-written with Frank Lawson, premiering at Tinworks on June 20 and 21.

Set in 2026, the work centers on two real historical figures: Samuel Lewis, the barber, magician, circus performer, and entrepreneur, and his sister Edmonia Lewis, the groundbreaking sculptor. Siblings who built extraordinary lives in the late 19th century, then drifted apart and into the margins of history. Over two days, Montana performers of all backgrounds step in front of a live audience to help bring them back into the same room.

📣 Call for tapes: We're inviting Montana performers of all backgrounds to audition. Link in bio for submission details.

🎟️ A Western Audition | Saturday, June 20 | 7–9pm | Tinworks
Tickets at link in bio. Extremely limited seating.

The talented Frank Lawson filmed by Naheed Choudhry for Edgar Arceneaux’s Pepper’s Ghost. #performanceart #losangeles #naheedence

How do we express what resists representation?
Join me for an evening of conversation, diagrams, and shared thinking through We Are Gods and How To Make Present the Unrepresentable.

Vielmetter Los Angeles
1700 S. Santa Fe Ave.

Edgar Arceneaux’s Peppers Ghost Film Shoot Day One. This is the talented Frank Lawson. Filmed by Naheed Choudhry of Naheedence Films. #art #edgararceneaux #performanceart #losangeles

Saturday evening I had the pleasure of attending my friend Edgar Arceneaux’s art opening “We Are Gods”. Beautiful work , great turn out and a lot of fun. Congratulations @edgar_three 🎊

If you are in Los Angeles, please go see the show in person this reel does not do it justice! 💜

Vielmetter Gallery
1700 Santa Fe
Downtown, Los Angeles

On public view from May 9 through June 27, 2026. The exhibition is located in Gallery I and features new, large-scale process paintings from his “Skinning the Mirror” series.

#EdgarArceneaux #LosAngelesArt #ContemporaryArt #DTLAArtsDistrict #ArtExhibition

Opening today with a reception from 4-6pm, Edgar Arceneaux’s solo exhibition, “We Are Gods”.

“In 2020, Edgar Arceneaux added process painting to his multimedia art practice. The paintings included in We Are Gods continue this sustained inquiry of the intersection of abstraction and materiality. The exhibition title alludes to a metaphysical continuum that connects life and death. This is the artist’s third gathering of Skinning the Mirror, an ongoing series of paintings composed of acrylic and mirror on canvas. Making paintings from small to mural size, Arceneaux tests material processes against scale as a means to consider a body in relation to vision, and in relation to making. The paintings comprising We Are Gods demonstrate Arceneaux’s expanding investigations of expression via color and composition.” -Jenelle Porter

Edgar Arceneaux
“Mom and Dad,” 2026
Silver nitrate, acrylic paint on canvas
80” x 10’ x 3 ³⁄₄” [HxWxD]

@edgar_three

Hey Family

Some people have asked me what does the title mean? 🤷🏽‍♂️
Well, We Are Gods, points towards a metaphysical continuum that connects life and death. A kind of insight formed when you witness the cycles of life, parents transitioning to the other side, having a child book ending the other you see the great continuum and that continuation of people‘s past, not just the spirits, but as literal manifestations in our DNA and the genes of our families. Connecting with that great hereafter and how it registers in the present is where the title comes from. We are gods.

The presence of the living is always there in my skinning the mirror paintings, in this case
The silver in every painting absorbs little bits of DNA that are floating in the air chemically bonding to the surface, causing what we know as patina.

We’re taught that patina on silverware, for example, should be rubbed away, but in this case, I celebrate this discoloration as a living document of life.

Sooooo..
Drop everything you’re doin’ so you can come to my opening this Saturday!
WE ARE GODS
May 9th from 4-6pm
@👇🏼
Vielmetter Los Angeles
1700 S Santa Fe Ave #101,
Los Angeles, CA 90021

Hey Family

Some people have asked me what does the title mean? 🤷🏽‍♂️
Well, We Are Gods, points towards a metaphysical continuum that connects life and death. A kind of insight formed when you witness the cycles of life, parents transitioning to the other side, having a child book ending the other you see the great continuum and that continuation of people‘s past, not just the spirits, but as literal manifestations in our DNA and the genes of our families. Connecting with that great hereafter and how it registers in the present is where the title comes from. We are gods.

The presence of the living is always there in my skinning the mirror paintings, in this case
The silver in every painting absorbs little bits of DNA that are floating in the air chemically bonding to the surface, causing what we know as patina.

We’re taught that patina on silverware, for example, should be rubbed away, but in this case, I celebrate this discoloration as a living document of life.

Sooooo..
Drop everything you’re doin’ so you can come to my opening this Saturday!
WE ARE GODS
May 9th from 4-6pm
@👇🏼
Vielmetter Los Angeles
1700 S Santa Fe Ave #101,
Los Angeles, CA 90021

Hey Family

Some people have asked me what does the title mean? 🤷🏽‍♂️
Well, We Are Gods, points towards a metaphysical continuum that connects life and death. A kind of insight formed when you witness the cycles of life, parents transitioning to the other side, having a child book ending the other you see the great continuum and that continuation of people‘s past, not just the spirits, but as literal manifestations in our DNA and the genes of our families. Connecting with that great hereafter and how it registers in the present is where the title comes from. We are gods.

The presence of the living is always there in my skinning the mirror paintings, in this case
The silver in every painting absorbs little bits of DNA that are floating in the air chemically bonding to the surface, causing what we know as patina.

We’re taught that patina on silverware, for example, should be rubbed away, but in this case, I celebrate this discoloration as a living document of life.

Sooooo..
Drop everything you’re doin’ so you can come to my opening this Saturday!
WE ARE GODS
May 9th from 4-6pm
@👇🏼
Vielmetter Los Angeles
1700 S Santa Fe Ave #101,
Los Angeles, CA 90021

Please join us Sunday 5/17 3-5pm in our upstairs space [entry next door to Dreamsong] for the launch of The Fall, a new publication featuring writing by Henriette Huldisch, Chief Curator of the Walker Art Center, Gregory Smith, Co-Founder of Dreamsong, and excerpts from an interview with Edgar Arceneaux alongside images of works from the artist’s 2025 exhibition at Dreamsong. Edgar will be visiting from Los Angeles for the occasion.

“Demise, aftershock, and persistence all thread through Arceneaux’s recent series of paintings, albeit ambiguously and, if you will, behind the mirror: George Floyd’s brutal death and the uprisings for racial justice that spread from Minneapolis throughout the world; Minnesota’s harsh climate, threatened by existential climate change; as well as personal loss and grief. And yet in many ways, this project reverses Arceneaux’s previous itinerary, taking its departure from a deeply material process that brought a narrative, or rather narratives, into focus along the way.” - Henriette Huldisch @hhuldisch