Lehmann Maupin is pleased to announce details for its upcoming presentation at FOG Design+Art. Highlighting a range of multimedia works by artists across the gallery’s global program, the presentation foregrounds artists from the West Coast, including photographs by Catherine Opie, ahead of her solo exhibition at the National Portrait gallery in the UK; recent wall-based photo sculptures by Todd Gray, whose LACMA mural commission will be unveiled this spring; and a selection of new paintings by San Francisco native Tammy Nguyen, concurrent to her solo exhibition at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, TX. Notably, the gallery will also present new paintings by McArthur Binion ahead of his solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin in New York this spring.
The presentation will feature several photographs from Catherine Opie's recent series featuring the mountainous Norwegian landscape. These works, as Opie notes, are a meditation on “how the history of blue is used in art…about blue as a mourning as the planet changes so rapidly.” Looking closely at color and landscape, Opie imbues the images with a sense of the sublime. This precedes the institutional solo exhibition Catherine Opie: To be Seen, which will open at the National Portrait Gallery in London on March 5, 2026. The exhibition will showcase Opie’s historic portraiture and marks the first major museum exhibition of her work in the United Kingdom.
Two recent wall-based works by Todd Gray, the paradox of knowledge (2025) and Gorée Island, Villa Torlonia (2024) will be on view. Gray is known for his photo assemblages that aim to destabilize assumptions about the veracity of photography and provoke reconsiderations of long-accepted norms and beliefs surrounding the medium, juxtaposing layers of imagery that that examine ideas of African diaspora, colonialism, societal power structures, and dominant cultural beliefs. The works at the booth combine images from his music photography archive, work made in the early 2000s, and photographs taken during his fellowship at the American Academy in Rome in 2023. This spring, LACMA will unveil a new commissioned mural by Gray, titled Octavia’s Gaze.
The gallery will also present a selection of new paintings by Tammy Nguyen. Nguyen’s multidisciplinary practice explores the intersections between geopolitics, ecology, and history, using her unique visual language to intertwine disparate subjects in each narrative composition. Her research-based process involves a close reading of foundational texts across the Western canon and global history. Formally, she works across mediums including printmaking, ink drawing, and painting to examine the contrast between text and image, creating rich visual metaphors within layers of material. By generating compositional push and pull between the visible and invisible, she invites the viewer to question preconceived notions of history and presents fluid, spiritual worlds. Concurrent to the fair, Contemporary Project 19: Tammy Nguyen is on view from January 17–September 6 at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, TX.
Finally, several new paintings by McArthur Binion will be prominently featured. Binion is known for his intensely personal works that are deeply dedicated to the rigorous process of making a painting. In new canvases from his DNA series, he combines collage, drawing, and painting to create autobiographical abstractions of painted minimalist patterns over an “under-conscious” of personal documents and photographs, which are concealed and abstracted by grids of oil stick. These partially obscured personal materials, according to Binion, relate to lineage, grounding, and the foundational elements of memory. Concurrent to the fair, Binion’s work is on view in the Pinault Collection exhibition Minimal, curated by Dia Art Foundation director Jessica Morgan, at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris through February 2. An exhibition of his newest works will open at Lehmann Maupin in New York this March.
The presentation will also spotlight a new photograph by Los Angeles-based artist Alex Prager, titled Hidden Hills (After Dark) (2025). This summer, Prager will debut a new body of work at Lehmann Maupin in New York. Additional highlights will include work by Kader Attia, Loriel Beltrán, Dominic Chambers, Teresita Fernández, Chantal Joffe, Calida Rawles, Kim Yun Shin, Nari Ward, and Billie Zangewa.
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