For the sixth edition of Frieze Los Angeles, 303 Gallery will exhibit a solo presentation of Sam Falls (Booth B14) at Santa Monica Airport from February 20 – 23, 2025.
On view will be new work incorporating painting and ceramics. Drawing from Falls' exploration of California's coastal marine environment, these works excavate the depths beneath the Pacific Ocean's surface. Covering canvases with seaweed and aquatic vegetation, Falls then casts dry pigments to create intricate compositions. These arrangements are left exposed to the elements, where fog, mist, rain, sun and atmosphere activate the pigments. This process, similar to a photogram, records not only the formal qualities of the plant life, but also a semblance of the psychological and climatic substrata that constitute a dynamic definition of 'place.' Working symbiotically with nature and the elements, Falls blurs the lines between artistic genres and practices, from conceptual photography to land art, boiling it down to the fundamentals of nature and the transience of life that art can often address.
