Lisson Gallery at FOG Design+Art 2025
1 January 2025
Lisson Gallery is pleased to make its debut at the 2025 edition of FOG Design+Art, presenting a dynamic selection of works from its roster of international artists. The gallery's booth will feature paintings by Leiko Ikemura, Carmen Herrera, Rodney Graham and Tony Bechara, alongside sculptural works by Anish Kapoor, Hugh Hayden, Elaine Cameron-Weir and Kelly Akashi. Highlights also include ceramics by Masaomi Yasunaga, a photograph from Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Opticks series, drawings by Wael Shawky, and works by Spencer Finch.
Leiko Ikemura’s Lake Biwa series is a focal point of the presentation, embodying the artist’s deep engagement with nature, mythology, and the female form. Drawing from Japanese Shintoism, her tempera on jute works depict mythical landscapes in transition, where figures blend seamlessly into natural settings. These paintings evoke the serenity and mystery of Japan’s largest freshwater lake over the course of different seasons, exploring themes of transformation and interconnectedness.
Elsewhere in the booth, Wael Shawky’s The Gulf Project Camp: Drawing series (2019) reinterprets Persian miniature traditions by replacing human figures with hybrid mythical creatures. These works part of Shawky’s broader inquiry into themes of migration, identity, and cultural history, layering myth and allegory to reflect on collective memory and human experience.
On the heels of solo presentations at the gallery, works by both Anish Kapoor and Hiroshi Sugimoto are on display. Kapoor’s Lime Gold (2022), a concave mirror sculpture with a metallic hue, challenges viewers perception of self through distortion of reflection. Two works from Sugimoto’s ongoing Optick’s series, Opticks 250 (2018) and Opticks 618 (2023), offer an abstract yet intimate snapshot into the full spectrum of light.
Another prominent work on view is the large linen, acrylic, and gesso textile by Colombian artist Olga de Amaral, coinciding with the artist’s major solo exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris. A cast iron, bronze, and aluminum skillet work by Hugh Hayden also hangs in the booth alongside Rodney Graham’s lightbox, Good Hand Bad Hand (2010).
Among the other sculptural highlights are Otobong Nkanga’s Silent Anchor V (2024), a nylon parachute framed in a stainless steel laboratory lattice and bound in leather by Elaine Cameron-Weir, a new wall-based light work by Spencer Finch, Haiku (Woods at dusk, Usuyuki, Winter) (2024) and ceramics by Masaomi Yasunaga. Nearby, visitors will find paintings like geometric abstractions on both canvas and paper by Carmen Herrera, a gouache on cardboard work by Hélio Oiticica from 1955, and Shirazeh Houshiary’s Dew (2024).
Also featured in the presentation are works by Kelly Akashi, whose glass and clay sculptures explore the material’s transformative potential. These tactile pieces, marked by intricate textures and organic forms, coincide with the artist’s inaugural exhibition with Lisson Gallery in the Los Angeles space.
