Pilar Wiley

OPENING TMRW @gallerysonder November 21, 6-9 pm The Thing in Itself Ruben Benjamin Jae Ford Noosha Golab Gary Lang Sheng Lor Susan Maddux Josh Sperling Pilar Wiley ----- I've been out of commission with an arm injury for most of the year, but I managed to make this one sculpture this summer. Very slowly 🐌 So happy to have it and two other works in this delicious group show, opening Friday. Thank you so much Josh, Brianne and Sydney for including my work. OC peeps come out! #ceramicsculpture #thethinginitself

Today is the last day to view Spring and All @altprojects.la 🌱 Deepest thanks to Sean, JinHyoung, and Yi for bringing this show into being 💚 @sean_arenas @altprojects.la @_yi__ Installation 📸: @zengyi_zhao Pictured: Cathected, 2026 Glazed ceramic, epoxy, paint 5.5 x 14 x 8.5 inches

Pilar Wiley Installation view Last few day to view - 𝘠𝘪 𝘎𝘢𝘰 & 𝘗𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘺: 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘭𝘭 until May 16. To schedule a viewing, please email [email protected] Yi Gao @_yi__ Pilar Wiley @pattern_language Curated by Sean Arenas @sean_arenas Installation photography by @zengyi_zhao

Pilar Wiley
 Loaded, 2026 Paper pulp, glazed ceramic 6.5 x 11.25 x 12 in. A recent development as part of her Pulped: Residency, artist Pilar Wiley introduces paper and earth to create a new generation of clay sculptures. Now on view - 𝘠𝘪 𝘎𝘢𝘰 & 𝘗𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘺: 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘭𝘭 until May 16. To schedule a viewing, please email [email protected] Yi Gao @_yi__ Pilar Wiley @pattern_language Curated by Sean Arenas @sean_arenas Installation photography by @zengyi_zhao

Let's See Who Opens the Box, 2026 Glazed ceramic, paper pulp 20.25 x 13.25 x 10 inches On view and in good company for a couple more days in: As Air, As Water @lacc.vama Curated by @chilchotarose Open through May 1 Installation view: Kyle Tata

Pilar Wiley Private Dancer, 2026 Glazed Ceramic 10.75 x 12.75 x 11.75 in. Now on view - 𝘠𝘪 𝘎𝘢𝘰 & 𝘗𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘺: 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘭𝘭 until on view until May 16. Open hours this Sunday from 12-3pm, or email to schedule an appointment. [email protected] Yi Gao @_yi__ Pilar Wiley @pattern_language Curated by Sean Arenas @sean_arenas Installation photography by @zengyi_zhao - Pilar Wiley (b. Tacoma, Washington) makes ceramics in Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited with Sotheby’s in New York, Los Angeles, Aspen, East Hampton, and Palm Beach. Solo exhibitions include A Push Can Make Falling at Alto Beta, Los Angeles, and Whitesnake at Orthodox, Los Angeles. Her pieces have been featured in group shows in Los Angeles, New York, and internationally, as well as at art fairs including NADA, Miami, and Paramount Ranch, Los Angeles. She has been a resident artist at the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University and the Expressive Computation Lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her work has appeared in Dwell, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wallpaper*, W, Harper’s Bazaar, and M le Magazine du Monde

Private Dancer, 2026 Glazed ceramic 10.75 x 12.75 x 11.75 inches On view @altprojects.la through May 16, 2026 in Spring & All: Yi Gao & Pilar Wiley curated by @sean_arenas Installation views by @zengyi_zhao @_yi__ @pattern_language #springandall

Pilar Wiley’s @pattern_language ceramic works have arrived at AMPHI OBJECTS✨ A series of glazed ceramic works. Playful, textured, and made to be lived with. Now available in store and online.🖤 Link in bio👀

Now on view - 𝘠𝘪 𝘎𝘢𝘰 & 𝘗𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘺: 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘭𝘭 until May 16th. To schedule a viewing, please email [email protected] Yi Gao @_yi__ Pilar Wiley @pattern_language Curated by Sean Arenas @sean_arenas Installation photography by @zengyi_zhao - Yi Gao (b. Nanjing, China) is a Los Angeles–based artist. She received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her BA from Otis College of Art and Design. Gao’s work has been exhibited at The Mistake Room, New Wight Gallery, LADIES’ ROOM, and Reena Spaulings Fine Art in Los Angeles, as well as Connoisseur Art Gallery in Hong Kong. She held a solo exhibition at LAN Art Gallery in Shenzhen. Gao is the recipient of the Martha Alf Foundation Grant, the Helen Frankenthaler Scholarship, and the Edna and Yu-Shan Han Award. Pilar Wiley (b. Tacoma, Washington) makes ceramics in Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited with Sotheby’s in New York, Los Angeles, Aspen, East Hampton, and Palm Beach. Solo exhibitions include A Push Can Make Falling at Alto Beta, Los Angeles, and Whitesnake at Orthodox, Los Angeles. Her pieces have been featured in group shows in Los Angeles, New York, and internationally, as well as at art fairs including NADA, Miami, and Paramount Ranch, Los Angeles. She has been a resident artist at the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University and the Expressive Computation Lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her work has appeared in Dwell, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wallpaper*, W, Harper’s Bazaar, and M le Magazine du Monde

This week: Alt Projects is pleased to announce 𝘠𝘪 𝘎𝘢𝘰 & 𝘗𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘺: 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘭𝘭, a two-person exhibition featuring paintings by Yi Gao and ceramic sculptures by Pilar Wiley. The opening reception is on Sunday April 19th, 2-5pm. Named after a poem by William Carlos Williams in which life slowly reemerges after a harsh winter, the exhibition reflects the artists’ shared interest in exploring states of transformation and becoming. Together, the two Los Angeles-based artists evoke a natural world in flux: structures dissolve, forms mutate, and new configurations gradually emerge. To RSVP or to schedule an appointment, please email [email protected] Yi Gao @_yi__ Pilar Wiley @pattern_language Curated by Sean Arenas @sean_arenas Poster Design: Nicholas Ismael Martinez @ismael.nm - Yi Gao (b. Nanjing, China) is a Los Angeles–based artist. She received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her BA from Otis College of Art and Design. Gao’s work has been exhibited at The Mistake Room, New Wight Gallery, LADIES’ ROOM, and Reena Spaulings Fine Art in Los Angeles, as well as Connoisseur Art Gallery in Hong Kong. She held a solo exhibition at LAN Art Gallery in Shenzhen. Gao is the recipient of the Martha Alf Foundation Grant, the Helen Frankenthaler Scholarship, and the Edna and Yu-Shan Han Award. Pilar Wiley (b. Tacoma, Washington) makes ceramics in Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited with Sotheby’s in New York, Los Angeles, Aspen, East Hampton, and Palm Beach. Solo exhibitions include A Push Can Make Falling at Alto Beta, Los Angeles, and Whitesnake at Orthodox, Los Angeles. Her pieces have been featured in group shows in Los Angeles, New York, and internationally, as well as at art fairs including NADA, Miami, and Paramount Ranch, Los Angeles. She has been a resident artist at the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University and the Expressive Computation Lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her work has appeared in Dwell, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wallpaper*, W, Harper’s Bazaar, and M le Magazine du Monde.

Vamp, 2026 Glazed ceramic 11.5 x 13 x 7.25 inches On view in As Air, As Water Curated by Andrés Janacua @chilchotarose @lacc.vama through May 1, 2026 📷 Installation views: Kyle Tata I have a lot more dishy bananas in my heart, hope to birth them this year 🍌👠

"As Air, As Water" is up through May 1 @lacc.vama Come see this delightful show in the beating heart of Los Angeles 💓𝕃𝔸ℂℂ💓 LACC VAMA Gallery 855 N Vermont Ave Da Vinci Hall M-Th, 9-5 Fri 11-4 pm Sat by appointment Los Angeles City College and the Visual and Media Arts Department are proud to present the exhibition As Air, As Water. Like the elements named in its title, the exhibition evokes forces that splinter infinitely. Air and water move without fixed direction, shaping their paths through subtle pressure and dispersal. As Air, As Water considers how artworks occupy space not only as discrete objects and domestic goods, but as presences that meet us: palpable, suspended, and held in our common atmosphere. Presented along a singular horizon, the exhibition brings together twenty artists whose works both complement and challenge the conditions of the encounter. Installed on a continuous shelf that traces the gallery’s perimeter, the viewers approach the works sequentially, oscillating between intimate and collective rhythm. Across this axis, each work emerges in conversation with the next, sometimes attuned to one another–at others in dissonance. As the viewer moves through the exhibition, surfaces, edges, and forms take on greater precedence allowing the objects to assert their position in relation to one another. This too becomes a subtle force with the capability of leaving last impressions, profound and discoverable. As Air, As Water features Francis Alÿs, Juan Capistran, Coleman Collins, Patricia Fernandez, Eve Fowler, Erik Frydenborg, Olivia Gibian, Julia Haft-Candell, Evan Holloway, Alice Könitz, Shana Lutker, Joey Lehman Morris, David Muenzer, Alisa Ochoa, Ruben Ochoa, Matt Paweski, Brannon Rockwell-Charland Cook, Sam Shoemaker, Oscar Tuazon, Pilar Wiley. Organized by Andrés Janacua @chilchotarose March 19-May 1, 2026 Los Angeles City College, VAMA Gallery 855 N Vermont Ave 90029