The Armory Show

GAVLAK returns to The Armory Show with a group presentation featuring new and recent works by Lita Albuquerque, Jose Alvarez (D.O.P.A.), Lisa Anne Auerbach, Alice Aycock, Lynda Benglis, Andrew Brischler, Jessica Cannon, Renée Condo, Field Kallop, Deborah Kass, Kris Knight, Nancy Lorenz, Vera Lutter, Marilyn Minter, Maynard Monrow, Lauren Shapiro, Alexis Teplin, Liliane Tomasko, and Rob Wynne, among others. Spanning painting, photography, sculpture, and installation, the presentation examines how artists transform material, process, and perception into distinct explorations of identity, spirituality, and the physical world. The presentation also marks the gallery’s first presentation of works by Alice Aycock, Lauren Shapiro, and Liliane Tomasko.

Highlights of the presentation include new works by Liliane Tomasko, whose gestural abstractions use form, color, and line to chart the elusive terrain between inner states and spatial experience. Parallel to the fair, Tomasko’s work will be the subject of two major solo exhibitions in Europe: Liliane Tomasko: Bridge, a retrospective at the Ludwig Museum in Koblenz, Germany, and Liliane Tomasko: Les songes de la trame, at Couvent de La Tourette, Fondation Le Corbusier, as part of the 18th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art. 

Also on view is an intimately scaled sculpture by Alice Aycock, whose decades-long practice has expanded the language of contemporary sculpture through dynamic forms shaped by architecture, engineering, and movement. The work enters into dialogue with Aycock’s Twister Again (Dior), a monumental staircase installation recently unveiled as a permanent commission at Dior Osaka Shinsaibashi. Looking ahead, Art Omi in Chatham, New York, will unveil the Alice Aycock Pavilion in 2027. Designed by Aycock in collaboration with architect Philip Castillo of Jahn, the pavilion will present rotating museum-scale exhibitions while providing a permanent home for archival materials, as well as reconstructed and restored works spanning her career.

Field Kallop and Nancy Lorenz explore the sublime through abstraction, looking respectively to the cosmic and the material. In the new works, Kallop draws upon geometry and celestial phenomena to give visual form to the relationship between the human and the cosmic. Her translucent layers of pigment position painting as a contemplative, immersive field, extending the legacy of Color Field abstraction. In contrast, Lorenz’s explorations of lacquer, precious metals, and natural materials transform the surface into a luminous, tactile field, locating transcendence within the physical properties of the work itself. In her Elements series, Lorenz brings techniques rooted in traditional Japanese craftsmanship—encountered during her years living and working in Tokyo—into dialogue with the language of contemporary abstraction.

Other highlights in the booth include works by Lisa Anne Auerbach, whose video series, Unraveling Parade, will be presented as part of West Hollywood Moving Image Media Art Program (MIMA) in Los Angeles from October 1, 2026 through January 31, 2027; a new site-specific work by Maynard Monrow, whose work is also featured in the Brooklyn Museum exhibition Common Sense; Rob Wynne, whose work is currently on view in the museum’s Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses; Marilyn Minter, recently named International Artist Honoree by Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Aspen in conjunction with Pretty Dirty (2025), a new documentary tracing her life and career; and Jose Alvarez (D.O.P.A.), whose String Theory IV (2025) was recently acquired by the Taubman Museum of Art.