Edgar Arceneaux

Our new publication is here! Check out details and snag your limited edition copy at link in bio. Join us with Edgar Arceneaux, visiting from LA, this Sunday 5/17 3-5pm to celebrate the launch at Dreamsong’s Annex - entrance next door to the gallery at 1235 4th Street NE.

Hey Family Drop everything you’re doin’ so you can come to my opening this Saturday! WE ARE GODS May 9th from 4-6pm @👇🏼 Vielmetter Los Angeles 1700 S Santa Fe Ave #101, Los Angeles, CA 90021 On the occasion of the exhibition, curator and writer Jenelle Porter reflects on Arceneaux’s newest body of work: “In 2020, Edgar Arceneaux added process painting to his multimedia art practice. The paintings included in We Are Gods continue this sustained inquiry of the intersection of abstraction and materiality. The exhibition title alludes to a metaphysical continuum that connects life and death. This is the artist’s third gathering of Skinning the Mirror, an ongoing series of paintings composed of acrylic and mirror on canvas. Making paintings from small to mural size, Arceneaux tests material processes against scale as a means to consider a body in relation to vision, and in relation to making. The paintings comprising We Are Gods demonstrate Arceneaux’s expanding investigations of expression via color and composition.

Edgar Arceneaux’s painting coming off the wall at his MCAD studio to get transported and finished for his upcoming exhibition “The Fall”, opening November 8th at Dreamsong. Join us for a conversation between the Walker Art Center’s Chief Curator Henriette Huldisch and the artist at 5pm, followed by a reception 6-8pm. @mcadmfa @mcadedu @walkerartcenter @edgar_three @hhuldisch @brown_dog_stretchers

Vielmetter Los Angeles invites you to join artist Edgar Arceneaux for a two part event encompassing a walkthrough of his exhibition We Are Gods, currently on view at the gallery, followed by an interactive presentation and discussion entitled, How to Present the Unrepresentable. Saturday, May 23, 2026 Walkthrough: 1pm - 2pm Coffee and Pastries: 2pm - 2:30pm Interactive Presentation: 2:30pm - 3:30pm Part One We Are Gods Exhibition Walkthrough Arceneaux will lead a conversation through his exhibition focused on the themes of the show and the skinning the mirror process that he created. Part Two How to Present the Unrepresentable Arceneaux will breakdown the methods and approaches he uses to express ideas that avoid the clichés of representation and the pitfalls of the illustrative impulse. Touching upon key projects from the last three decades of his practice, The Triadic Series (1997-2007), Drawings of Removal (2001-Present), and Until Until Until... (2015-Present), Arceneaux encourages guests to bring a notebook or sketchbook so that they may draw and diagram along with him. Light refreshments, paper and pencils will also be provided. Portrait of artist Edgar Arceneaux. Photo credit: Andrea Katheder. (L). Edgar Arceneaux, “We Are Gods 3,” 2026, Silver nitrate, acrylic paint on canvas, 32” x 22” x 1 ¹⁄₂” [HxWxD] Photo credit: Brica Wilcox (R). @edgar_three

Had a great Day Two for Edgar Arceneaux’s Peppers Ghost shoot. Enjoyed collaborating with so many awesome people. This is the talented Frank Lawson. Hope this makes you smile today! #art #edgararceneaux #performanceart #losangeles

Saturday evening I had the pleasure of attending my friend Edgar Arceneaux’s art opening “We Are Gods”. Beautiful work , great turn out and a lot of fun. Congratulations @edgar_three 🎊 If you are in Los Angeles, please go see the show in person this reel does not do it justice! 💜 Vielmetter Gallery 1700 Santa Fe Downtown, Los Angeles On public view from May 9 through June 27, 2026. The exhibition is located in Gallery I and features new, large-scale process paintings from his “Skinning the Mirror” series. #EdgarArceneaux #LosAngelesArt #ContemporaryArt #DTLAArtsDistrict #ArtExhibition

Opening today with a reception from 4-6pm, Edgar Arceneaux’s solo exhibition, “We Are Gods”. “In 2020, Edgar Arceneaux added process painting to his multimedia art practice. The paintings included in We Are Gods continue this sustained inquiry of the intersection of abstraction and materiality. The exhibition title alludes to a metaphysical continuum that connects life and death. This is the artist’s third gathering of Skinning the Mirror, an ongoing series of paintings composed of acrylic and mirror on canvas. Making paintings from small to mural size, Arceneaux tests material processes against scale as a means to consider a body in relation to vision, and in relation to making. The paintings comprising We Are Gods demonstrate Arceneaux’s expanding investigations of expression via color and composition.” -Jenelle Porter Edgar Arceneaux “Mom and Dad,” 2026 Silver nitrate, acrylic paint on canvas 80” x 10’ x 3 ³⁄₄” [HxWxD] @edgar_three

Hey Family Some people have asked me what does the title mean? 🤷🏽‍♂️ Well, We Are Gods, points towards a metaphysical continuum that connects life and death. A kind of insight formed when you witness the cycles of life, parents transitioning to the other side, having a child book ending the other you see the great continuum and that continuation of people‘s past, not just the spirits, but as literal manifestations in our DNA and the genes of our families. Connecting with that great hereafter and how it registers in the present is where the title comes from. We are gods. The presence of the living is always there in my skinning the mirror paintings, in this case The silver in every painting absorbs little bits of DNA that are floating in the air chemically bonding to the surface, causing what we know as patina. We’re taught that patina on silverware, for example, should be rubbed away, but in this case, I celebrate this discoloration as a living document of life. Sooooo.. Drop everything you’re doin’ so you can come to my opening this Saturday! WE ARE GODS May 9th from 4-6pm @👇🏼 Vielmetter Los Angeles 1700 S Santa Fe Ave #101, Los Angeles, CA 90021

Please join us Sunday 5/17 3-5pm in our upstairs space [entry next door to Dreamsong] for the launch of The Fall, a new publication featuring writing by Henriette Huldisch, Chief Curator of the Walker Art Center, Gregory Smith, Co-Founder of Dreamsong, and excerpts from an interview with Edgar Arceneaux alongside images of works from the artist’s 2025 exhibition at Dreamsong. Edgar will be visiting from Los Angeles for the occasion. “Demise, aftershock, and persistence all thread through Arceneaux’s recent series of paintings, albeit ambiguously and, if you will, behind the mirror: George Floyd’s brutal death and the uprisings for racial justice that spread from Minneapolis throughout the world; Minnesota’s harsh climate, threatened by existential climate change; as well as personal loss and grief. And yet in many ways, this project reverses Arceneaux’s previous itinerary, taking its departure from a deeply material process that brought a narrative, or rather narratives, into focus along the way.” - Henriette Huldisch @hhuldisch

Jenelle Porter is one of the smartest curators in the game and am honored that my friend of 20+ years can bring all of that brilliance to an essay on my NEWEST SHOW work for WE ARE GODS. 🙏🏽🙌🏽❤️ @jpo3000 Find the full essay in my bio. Excerpt : … The concept and practice of removal was, for the artist, a form of accounting, and then, as an ongoing series, an accumulation. The mirror as warping device is central to the Library of Black Lies (2013–18). While Arceneaux’s recent abstractions may seem a significant shift in his oeuvre, Skinning the Mirror continues his critical inquiry of mirror and mirroring, metaphorical vision and blindness, and dismantling to create.

Vielmetter Los Angeles is pleased to present We Are Gods, Edgar Arceneaux’s twelfth solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from May 9th through June 27th, 2026. Opening Reception: Saturday, May 9, 4 – 6 pm On the occasion of the exhibition, curator and writer Jenelle Porter reflects on Arceneaux’s newest body of work: “In 2020, Edgar Arceneaux added process painting to his multimedia art practice. The paintings included in We Are Gods continue this sustained inquiry of the intersection of abstraction and materiality. The exhibition title alludes to a metaphysical continuum that connects life and death. This is the artist’s third gathering of Skinning the Mirror, an ongoing series of paintings composed of acrylic and mirror on canvas. Making paintings from small to mural size, Arceneaux tests material processes against scale as a means to consider a body in relation to vision, and in relation to making. The paintings comprising We Are Gods demonstrate Arceneaux’s expanding investigations of expression via color and composition.” Edgar Arceneaux, “Togetherness,” 2026, Silver nitrate, acrylic paint on canvas, 73” x 56” [HxW], Photo credit: Brica Wilcox Edgar Arceneaux, “We Are Gods 4,” 2026, Silver nitrate, acrylic paint on canvas, 33” x 22” [HxW] , Photo credit: Brica Wilcox Edgar Arceneaux, “Becoming Rainbows 10,” 2026, Silver nitrate, acrylic paint on canvas, 15 ¹³⁄₁₆” x 13 ³⁄₄” x 1 ¹⁄₄” [HxWxD] framed, Photo credit: Jeff McLane @edgar_three

Last chance! Grab your tickets for tomorrow's conversation between Nnamdi Kanaga and 2026 Tinworks artist Edgar Arceneaux on performing the West, and who gets to tell its story. Tomorrow at 7 pm at Tinworks at Rialto. $12 at the link in our bio.