Vardan Gallery

Samuel Guy & Jenny Brillhart at Vardan Gallery, Los Angeles, November 2025. Stages of Presence by Jenny Brillhart & Samuel Guy is now on view through December 13, 2025 at Vardan Gallery, Los Angeles. By appointment: [email protected] #samuelguy #jennybrillhart #vardangallery #maisontrouvaille

Alex Cohen, Along the Road, a Smithy, 2019 Presented in its original hand-crafted walnut scrub-gesso frame, this intimate painting gently implicates the viewer as witness to something familiar and yet fantastical, comingling revelation with risk. “All imagery is illusion, and all illusion teases a sense of what is real and what is fake; what is the artifact and what is the artifice...” Cohen adds. Exhibited in Over the Balustrade at Vardan Gallery, Los Angeles, October 2025. Image: Alex Cohen Along the Road, a Smithy, 2019 Oil on mounted canvas 10 × 10 in, 25.4 × 25.4 cm Artist’s Carved Walnut Scrub Gesso Frame Courtesy of The Vardan Collection @berty_cohen #alexcohen #vardangallery #maisontrouvaille

Installation view of Over the Balustrade, a solo exhibition of oil paintings and handcrafted frames by Alex Cohen at Vardan Gallery, Los Angeles, October 2025. For more details, contact [email protected] From left: Island, 2025 Oil on board, 13 1/2 x 15 1/2 in, 34.3 x 39.4 cm Over the Balustrade, 2020 Oil on board, 5 x 7 in, 12.7 x 17.8 cm Along the Road, a Smithy, 2019 Oil on mounted canvas, 10 x 10 in, 25.4 x 25.4 cm Chatty After Midnight, 2025 Oil on board, 5 x 7 3/4 in, 12.7 x 19.7 cm Desert Scene with Baby Palm, 2019 Oil on board, 12 x 13 1/4 in, 30.5 x 33.7 cm @berty_cohen #alexcohen #vardangallery #maisontrouvaille

Vardan Gallery is pleased to present Stages of Presence, an exhibition of recent oil paintings by Jenny Brillhart and Samuel Guy, on display October 7 - December 13, 2025, at Vardan Gallery, Los Angeles. Opening Reception: Friday, November 7, 6-8 PM. RSVP: [email protected] At first glance, the paintings of Jenny Brillhart and Samuel Guy seem to be operating in vastly different modes: Brillhart’s muted canvases elegantly capture the play of light and shadow in interiors, while Guy’s self-portraits negotiate and confiscate different mythological characters on heavily worked surfaces. So how do we read these two artists through each other? How can we see Guy’s works anew by apprehending them through Brillhart’s, and how can we see what is transpiring in Brillhart’s paintings by way of Guy’s? (Read full press release on our website: vardangallery.com) Image: Jenny Brillhart Bettina’s Image Cut; Bechtle Vibes, 2025 Oil on panel 14 x 20 in | 35.6 x 50.8 cm @jennybrillhart #jennybrillhart @samuelcguy #samuelguy #vardangallery

Jenny Brillhart, Black Curtain on Spring Street, 2025 Brillhart is inspired by the incidental alignment of shapes, and her works pay close attention to details like corners, walls, and surfaces. Interested in the humble, unsung, and tactile, her paintings evoke a quiet dignity, a classical sense of permanence and solidity. Most of the paintings are frontal and based in composition. There is something deeply performative about the way in which Brillhart arrives at these paintings. She sets up objects against a wall in her studio and records the light passing through the interiors. One of these stills might end up as a composition for a painting. The drawn-out process of movement and arrangement of objects, and how the light moves across these objects, constitute something like a performance at the heart of her paintings. For more details, please contact [email protected] or visit our new location in West Hollywood, by appointment. Image: Jenny Brillhart Black Curtain on Spring Street, 2025 Oil on panel 24 x 18 in | 61 x 45.7 cm @jennybrillhart #jennybrillhart #vardangallery

OPENING TOMORROW, FRIDAY, 6-8 PM. Jenny Brillhart & Samuel Guy, Stages of Presence RSVP: [email protected] Image: Samuel Guy Letter Man, 2025 (detail) Oil on panel 16 x 9 1/4 x 1 3/4 in | 40.6 x 23.5 x 4.4 cm @jennybrillhart #jennybrillhart @samuelcguy #samuelguy #vardangallery

One’s Own Windstorm, oil on board with artist’s carved gesso frame. 15” x 17”, 2023 On view by appointment with @vardangallery in collaboration with @maison_trouvaille at an historic West Hollywood home until November 8th. For visitation Thursday-Sunday please contact [email protected]

Alex Cohen, Bread Baker, 2023 Over the Balustrade, a solo exhibition of oil paintings and handcrafted frames by Alex Cohen. On view through November 8 at Vardan Gallery, Los Angeles. By appointment: [email protected] Image: Alex Cohen Bread Baker, 2023 Oil on canvas 11 3/4 x 9 in, 29.8 x 22.9 cm Artist’s Crackle Gesso with Gold Roulette Frame @berty_cohen #alexcohen #vardangallery

Alex Cohen, Over the Balustrade on view at Vardan Gallery, Los Angeles By appointment: [email protected] @berty_cohen #alexcohen #vardangallery

Over the Balustrade, a solo exhibition of oil paintings and handcrafted frames by Alex Cohen is on display through November 8, 2025 at Vardan Gallery, Los Angeles By appointment: [email protected] @berty_cohen #alexcohen @maison_trouvaille #vardangallery

Alex Cohen, Searching for Bioluminescent Bay, 2024 On view through November 8, 2025. By appointment: [email protected] Image: Alex Cohen Searching for Bioluminescent Bay, 2024 Oil on mounted canvas 7 1/2 x 8 1/4 in, 19.1 × 21 cm Artist’s carved walnut frame @berty_cohen #alexcohen #vardangallery

Vardan Gallery is delighted to present Over the Balustrade, a solo exhibition of oil paintings and handcrafted frames by Alex Cohen. On display October 4 - November 8, 2025, the exhibition will be presented in a historic Italian Renaissance–style villa in West Hollywood in collaboration with Maison Trouvaille. Born in 1980 in Newtown, Pennsylvania, Cohen studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he developed a disciplined yet exploratory studio practice. Each of Cohen’s paintings invites the viewer on a journey into an uncanny landscape and gently implicate the viewer as witness to something familiar and yet fantastical, comingling revelation with risk. Opening Celebration: October 4, 6–8 PM. We look forward to welcoming you. RSVP to attend: [email protected] Image 2: Alex Cohen Over the Balustrade, 2020 Oil on canvas 5 x 7 in, 12.7 x 17.8 cm Artist’s Crafted White Gesso Hourlass Frame @berty_cohen #alexcohen #vardangallery @maison_trouvaille #maisontrouvaille