West, London
Group Exhibition
Diane A.
Arcadia MissaBettina, Olga Balema, Hannah Black, Maja Čule, Dachi Cole, Caleb Considine, Jeffrey Joyal, Valerie Keane, Brad Kronz, Marc Kokopeli, Willa Nasatir, Tam Ochiai, Cameron Rowland, Coumba Samba, John Sandroni, Stewart Uoo In the exhibition Diane A., Arcadia Missa presents new and specially selected works by sixteen artists. The title of the exhibition is taken from an artwork included by Tam Ochiai, selected from a body of painted “skeletal biographies", containing the names of both the birth and death cities of their subjects, some of whom are well-known persons. Diane A. (Tam Ochiai, 2025) formally resembles a word scramble that likely spells out “New York City” twice. In other works, both Stewart Uoo’s semi-photographic East River I & East River II as well as Olga Balema’s Loop sculptures are made of transparent material, one containing reflections captured in still images and the other holding reflections of the gallery space. Bettina and Valerie Keane’s works form a similar aspect of the reflective, but instead opaque and metallic. Also included from several artists are faithful depictions rendered both from life and from photographic image, respectively. There is no single uniting methodology or thematic underpinning to the works selected for the show that would hold up to any scrutiny. Instead, this exhibition intends to offer examples of varied ways of working that can be sustained... in terms of duration as well as materials and occupations that emerge from the common and the available. —Tam Ochiai (Team Gallery Inc., 2015), excerpted from the exhibition text Everyone Has Two Places