Elsewhere: Into Revelation (LA)
Space Matter Gallery, Feb 13-26, 2026
Opening: Feb 20, 2026
Hosting Institutions: Current State Studio
Collaboration Partner: A Space Gallery (NY)
Curator: XiangLong Li, Zhiheng Gong, Kiki Liu
From Manhattan’s vertical grids of steel to the golden light stretching across the horizon in the City of Angels, New York and Los Angeles, two cultural anchors on opposite coasts of the United States are entering a moment of dialogue that feels more frequent and more urgent than ever before. Across nearly three thousand miles, these two cities continue to exchange ways of seeing, making, and living with art, shaping distinct yet interconnected creative temperaments.
New York condenses energy into intensity and structure, shaping artistic resilience through density and speed. Los Angeles moves through openness and fluidity, allowing creative tension to unfold across space, light, and media. This exhibition brings these sensibilities into a shared field, inviting viewers to move between difference and connection, and to experience how works across both coasts speak to one another through spatial relationships, echoes, and quiet moments of alignment.
Elsewhere is a dual-city exhibition presented at A Space Gallery, New York and Space Matter Gallery, Los Angeles. The project brings together works shaped by movement, exchange, and sustained looking, and reflects on how artworks circulate, encounter new contexts, and generate meaning through displacement.
Rather than treating Elsewhere as a destination or theme, the exhibition understands it as a condition in flux—one that emerges through motion, transition, and encounter. The participating works are approached as autonomous presences, carrying their own vitality beyond fixed narratives, identities, or explanations. As they move across cities, institutional frameworks, and audiences, the works are activated through instability, pause, and attentive viewing.
Elsewhere is grounded in cross-regional dialogue and collaboration. It invites artists whose practices engage with ideas of movement, rearticulation, and renewal, and asks a central question: when a work is allowed to appear as it is, can we still truly see it?
Eligibility:
We welcome all 2D and 3D mediums, including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, digital art, sculpture, ceramics, fiber art, collage, mixed media, installation, video, and performance. Emerging and early-career artists are strongly encouraged to apply.
Submission Deadline: Feb 1, 2026
Artist Works
Giving Me The Runaround, 2025,
Acrylic paint and chiffon
36” × 36”
Destruction, 2025
Interactive, video clip of the interaction,
1920 × 1080
Entropy Atlas, 2026,
video, 4’45”
Reveries: Echo of Touch, 2024
Sculpture, Video Projection, Sound Scape
Reveries: Echo of Touch, 2024
Sculpture, Video Projection, Sound Scape
Mental Health Crisis Is Getting Younger, 2025
Multimedia
13" × 13"
Reveries: Echo of Touch, 2024
Sculpture, Video Projection, Sound Scape
Displaced, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
36” × 48”
Architect Concept Collage, 2021,
pp paper
11” × 17”
Spatial Concept Collage, 2021,
pp paper
11” × 17”
Paix éternelle, 2026
Acrylic paint
24” × 32”
Architect Concept Collage, 2021,
pp paper
11” × 17”
Spatial Concept Collage, 2021,
pp paper
11” × 17”
Architect Concept Collage, 2025,
pp paper
24” × 36”
Bright, 2021,
Digital Photo,
20" × 30"
Event Documentation
| Eish Verma is a contemporary artist based in New York, exploring the intersection of culture, emotion, color, and form through her work. With a background in fine arts from the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York she employs various mediums including digital art, canvas painting, and sculptures. |
| Yaxuan Liao’s practice explores the shifting relationship between perception and self within technological environments. She treats data, frequencies and systemic structures as contemporary conditions of perception, translating abstract informational processes into experiential spaces through visual and acoustic mediation. In her work, data ceases to be merely an object of analysis, becoming instead a generative medium simultaneously shaping order and revealing instability. Fluid forms, repetitive rhythms, and subtle deviations collectively constitute a perceptual field situated between reason and sensibility, pointing towards the individual's state of existence within technological systems a state that is continuously influenced yet elusive to full definition. Her work does not seek to depict technology itself, but rather focuses on the human perceptual experience within systems: how the self continually emerges amidst the interweaving of consciousness, the body, and algorithms, caught between being measured and being perceived. |
| Gen Li is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in New Jersey whose work moves between photography, visual effects, and hybrid digital environments to examine how images mediate perception in contemporary life. Through a practice rooted in observation, constructed space, and technological experimentation, Li explores the tension between the documented and the fabricated, asking how realities are shaped, staged, and emotionally navigated through visual form. Across mediums, Li’s work investigates the evolving ecology of images—how they move, transform, and accumulate meaning. Through a shifting interplay of lens-based observation and digital construction, he reflects on the contemporary condition in which reality and simulation continuously fold into one another. |
| Enfeng Wang is a Chinese calligraphy artist who began studying traditional calligraphy at an early age. Through years of disciplined practice, the artist has participated in numerous national calligraphy exhibitions in China and has received multiple honors, including the National Gold Award for Chinese Calligraphy. The artist’s work has also extended internationally. In recent years, they have collaborated with major companies in New York City, creating calligraphy designs that integrate traditional Chinese aesthetics with contemporary visual contexts. Dedicated to both mastery and cultural exchange, the artist’s practice focuses on presenting Chinese calligraphy in ways that resonate with a global audience. Through their work, they seek to help viewers around the world better understand, appreciate, and engage with the depth, rhythm, and expressive power of Chinese calligraphy. |
Rather than focusing on personal autobiography, her work engageswith shared conditions shaped by contemporary systems andenvironments. Through the use of familiar objects, restrainedcomposition, and symbolic tension, Li constructs visual metaphors thatallow complexissues to be perceived gradually. Her practiceemphasizes narrative clarity while maintaining openness, enablingimages to function across different contexts and forms.
Drawing from mathematics, system logic, and digital modeling when appropriate, her work investigates processes of formation and dissolution—how structure emerges, shifts, and destabilizes over time. Rather than focusing on technology itself, her practice centers on the human experience of existing within algorithmic systems, where meaning is continuously constructed, interpreted, and reconfigured.
Working across moving image and installation art, her work bridges theoretical inquiry and material practice through experimental approaches and poetic visual language. Continuing to explore new forms, materials and processes, she pushes the boundaries of traditional artistic expressions to seek alternative modes of representation.
She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Film and Media Arts from Emerson College. Her work has been presented internationally, including screenings at the Chelsea Film Festival, the Yellowstone International Film Festival, and exhibitions through On::View Artist Residency.
Driven by the pursuit of bridging artistic ideals with real-world application, Tang’s projects emphasize clarity, functionality, and emotional resonance. By synthesizing conceptual exploration with practical problem-solving, the work transforms abstract ideas into buildable spatial solutions that enhance daily experience and environmental quality. This interdisciplinary approach positions spatial design as a form of socially engaged art, capable of generating meaningful, human-centered environments.