Frieze Los Angeles 2025: Booth C7

Altman Siegel is pleased to announce a presentation of new paintings by Laeh Glenn. Drawing upon found digital imagery, Laeh Glenn filters the life and history of visual material encountered online through a painter’s eye. This project unveils a significant shift in the artist's process, focusing on source material constructed within and specifically for digital space.

For her most recent series of paintings, Glenn sourced various 3D vector models built by novices and professionals alike. Often designed to populate online tools or for gaming, marketing, and architectural visualizations – These images are often conceived in a barren, void-like digital space. Glenn then completes the picture, imagining a home for these digital orphans off the screen. The previously hollow shells are intimately rendered in darkly anonymous domestic settings - making a material leap from pixel to painting. Stressing her engagement with the contemporary moment, Glenn cites an interest in the ever-growing colonization of digital modeling by AI design and the absurdity of digital inventions perpetuating other digital inventions.

Glenn's pieces consistently feature a flattened paint application that distinguishes her aesthetic. She retains the edges and shapes of the reference image as she translates it into a painting, reinforcing the two-dimensionality of the found object. Glenn's artwork directly engages with the traditions and formal conventions of painting while grappling with contemporary culture's overconsumption of pictures.

A recurring display method in Glenn's work involves a border surrounding the painting and a handmade wooden frame. This framing technique emphasizes the objecthood of the paintings, creating a tangible connection to their place in the real world, in contrast to their digital inspirations.

Glenn’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at The Vanity Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA; and Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Group exhibitions include Friends Indeed, San Francisco, CA; Ratio 3, Los Angeles, CA; Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY; Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL; Cressman Center for Visual Arts, Louisville, KY; Roberts and Tilton, Los Angeles, CA; Palazzo Fruscione, Salerno, Italy; Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden; PIASA, Paris, France; Room East, New York, NY; Grice Bench, New York, NY; Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY; Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY; and Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.