Friday

Larissa De Jesús Negrón in 𝘍𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 at Friday Gallery.

Larissa De Jesús Negrón is a multidisciplinary artist from Puerto Rico working across painting, installation, and visual storytelling. Her practice constructs surreal landscapes that weave memory, emotional inquiry, and embodied experience. Water functions as a central metaphor for psychological movement and introspection, while the female body operates as archive and agent, grounding her work in themes of vulnerability, femininity, and inner transformation.

Larissa’s work has been exhibited extensively, including in solo exhibitions at Anna Zorina Gallery and Nicodim, and in group shows at Harpers Gallery, The Hole and Nino Mier. She has also shown at leading art fairs, including KIAF Seoul, NADA, Untitled and The Armory Show.

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𝘍𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮
Opening Tues Feb 24 / 6-9PM
Curated with .artprojects
Friday Gallery
767 S. Alameda St. Suite 198
Los Angeles, CA
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Larissa De Jesús Negrón in 𝘍𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 at Friday Gallery.

Larissa De Jesús Negrón is a multidisciplinary artist from Puerto Rico working across painting, installation, and visual storytelling. Her practice constructs surreal landscapes that weave memory, emotional inquiry, and embodied experience. Water functions as a central metaphor for psychological movement and introspection, while the female body operates as archive and agent, grounding her work in themes of vulnerability, femininity, and inner transformation.

Larissa’s work has been exhibited extensively, including in solo exhibitions at Anna Zorina Gallery and Nicodim, and in group shows at Harpers Gallery, The Hole and Nino Mier. She has also shown at leading art fairs, including KIAF Seoul, NADA, Untitled and The Armory Show.

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𝘍𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮
Opening Tues Feb 24 / 6-9PM
Curated with .artprojects
Friday Gallery
767 S. Alameda St. Suite 198
Los Angeles, CA
☁️ RSVP at link in bio

Anindita Dutta in 𝘍𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮, Opening Tues Feb 24

Piñata-based artist Roberto Benavidez in 𝘍𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 at Friday Gallery.

Benavidez is a self described “Half-breed, South Texan, q***r, figurative sculptor” specializing in the piñata form, playing on themes of race, sexuality, art, sin, humor, ephemerality and beauty. “I was drawn to ancient imagery of mythological hybrid creatures, which parallel the mixed race part of myself. When I was growing up in south Texas in the 70s and 80s, it was a very racist time and place, and it felt like Mexicans were second-tier citizens. I want to push the piñata into a realm where you’re forced to see it as valuable, moving it into new spaces to show that we belong everywhere.”

His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Museum of International Folk Art, LA Metro, and the Detroit Institute of Arts, among others. He was recently featured in the New York Times Series “The Art of Craft.” Benavidez has shown in group and solo exhibitions, including at the AD&A Museum at UCSB, Craft In America, Mingei International Museum, Palo Alto Art Center, Self Help Graphics, Mesa Contemporary Art Museum and Riverside Art Museum; his work was included in the 2024 Homo Faber Biennial in Venice, Italy, and the 2025 Cheongju Craft Biennale in Cheongju, South Korea.

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𝘍𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮
Opening Tues Feb 24 / 6-9PM
Curated with .artprojects
Friday Gallery
767 S. Alameda St. #198
Los Angeles, CA
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Rafaela Mascaro in our 𝘍𝘌𝘝𝘌𝘙 𝘋𝘙𝘌𝘈𝘔 project space, opening Tues Feb 24th at Friday Gallery

Rafaela Mascaro is a Brazilian multidisciplinary designer, and illustrator whose work bridges character design, product, and future-facing visual systems. Working across hand drawing, vector, 3D modeling, and high-fidelity rendering, she creates emotionally charged, soft-uncanny characters that move fluidly between digital environments, collectible objects, and brand ecosystems.

Born and based in São Paulo, Brazil, Mascaro brings a distinctive blend of bold color sensibility and structured design methodology to her practice. Through her original universes — including Gang Friends — her work has intersected with global brands and platforms across tech, fashion, music, and consumer products. Her focus is on original IP and collaborative projects that investigate how play, emotional intelligence, and character-driven storytelling can shape more human technological futures.

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𝘍𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮
Opening Tues Feb 24 / 6-9PM
Curated with .artprojects
Friday Gallery, 767 S. Alameda St. #198
Los Angeles, CA 90021
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Larissa De Jesús Negrón is a multidisciplinary artist from Puerto Rico working across painting, installation, and visual storytelling. Her practice constructs surreal landscapes that weave memory, emotional inquiry, and embodied experience. Water functions as a central metaphor for psychological movement and introspection, while the female body operates as archive and agent, grounding her work in themes of vulnerability, femininity, and inner transformation.

Her work “Retrato psicológico” (in spray paint, oil, soft pastels, and pencil) is an imagined landscape of introspection where inner and outer worlds blur. Anchored by a fragile glow, the figures merge with native plants, forever watching and wondering. Set in the artist’s backyard, this is less a portrait of a woman than a portrait of thinking itself.

Larissa’s work has been exhibited extensively, including in solo exhibitions at Anna Zorina Gallery and Nicodim, and in group shows at Harpers Gallery, The Hole and Nino Mier. She has also shown at leading art fairs, including KIAF Seoul, NADA, Untitled and The Armory Show.

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𝘍𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮
Opening Tues Feb 24 / 6-9PM
Curated with .artprojects
Friday Gallery
767 S. Alameda St. #198
Los Angeles, CA
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𝓢𝓸𝓯𝓽 𝓒𝓱𝓪𝓸𝓼 shelf residency by Zoey Zhu & Cool and Cute Friends Club. The objects collected here represent a ‘Wild Tech’ - unruly, fluid, and deeply textural. CCFC brings together artists who manipulate materials like silver, silicone, and flora to mimic the mysterious, wet textures of the subconscious. A cool metallic shell, cute in its organic vulnerability. This is the new nature: soft, metallic, and beautifully chaotic.

Cool (aka. cold, clinical, and mysterious)
‘Cute’ (aka. vulnerable, organic, and soft).

A fever dream where the hardware is melting, and the ego is leaking. .ziyuan .cc

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1. & 3. Sewage, Shanghai .19
4. Liz, Shanghai
5. & 6. Eri Verse, Shanghai & NYC
7. Bella Luo, Shanghai & LA
8. CGS Lab, Seoul,
9. OHDE, Buenos Aries
10. Magali, NYC
11. Chang Liu, San Francisco .ceramics
12. Jaime Derringer, San Diego
13. Noware, NYC, .nyc
14. Keiichi, Tokyo .jp

Anindita Dutta 𝘍𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮, opening Feb 24

Dutta .studio.studio is an Indian-born sculptor, installation, and performance artist who transforms resilience and trauma into a radical visual language. Through hyper-intense sculptural expressions, she deconstructs the complex terrains of female identity, mapping the intricate landscapes of pain, pleasure, vulnerability, and strength.

Her work has been exhibited both in the US and internationally, including at the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York; Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan; Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology in Beijing, China; and CAMAC in Marney-sur-Seine, France, among others. She has received numerous prestigious grants and fellowships, such as the 2022 TOY Fellow and the 2022 NXTHVN Fellowship in New Haven, USA, the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum Artist Residency Grant in Japan (2010), the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2008), a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2005), and the UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for Artists Fellowship (2005). Her works are part of several esteemed collections, including the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan, the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art in Beijing, China, the Clarinda Carnegie Art Museum, the Francis J. Greenburger Collection, the Arthur M. Sackler Collection, the Karen and Robert Dncan Collection, and the Marc and Kathy LeBaron Collection.

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𝘍𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮
Opening Tues Feb 24 / 6-9PM
Curated with .artprojects
Friday Gallery
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A sensory feast of the creative wilds. Friday Gallery’s upcoming 𝘍𝘌𝘝𝘌𝘙 𝘋𝘙𝘌𝘈𝘔 exhibition is paired with five “Shelf Residencies” - tiny stages for delightfully strange objects and stories.

Guest curated by:
DubLab (sound & surrealism 🎧)
The Institute for Art and Olfaction (scent & surrealism 👃), Atmos Magazine (nature & surrealism 🐍),
Chinese design collective “Cool and Cute Friends Club” (form & surrealism ✨)
Moroccan artist Hassan Hajjaj with objects from his Andy Wahloo collection (sight & surrealism ☁️).

𝘍𝘌𝘝𝘌𝘙 𝘋𝘙𝘌𝘈𝘔 brings together artists drawing from global surrealist lineages, from Mexican spirit lore to Dominican dream-worlds. Featuring works by Roberto Benavidez, Florine Démosthène, Larissa De Jesús Negrón, Anindita Dutta, Diego Moreno, and Pedro Troncoso. As Max declares in Where the Wild Things Are, “Let the Wild Rumpus Begin.”

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𝘍𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮
Opening Tues Feb 24 / 6-9PM
Friday Gallery
RowDTLA 767 S. Alameda St. #198
Los Angeles, CA 90021
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“EL CHARRO NEGRO is a legend from my village that tells the story of a tall, elegant spectral horseman in black attire who appears to lone travelers on rural roads in Mexico on a black horse with fiery eyes, representing ambition and a pact with the devil in exchange for wealth. He can lead to perdition, but only if the traveler accepts his help, climbs onto his horse, or accepts his riches, otherwise he only offers companionship.

El Charro Negro comes from the series THE HOLY MOUNTAINS, a hybrid project that blends two worlds: Mexico and Switzerland. Through my family photo archive, graphic intervention, and collage, I explore popular mythology. Based on legends and magical stories, I draw analogies between the archives of both territories, creating new invented realities with the help of the oral tradition of the women in my family, mainly my maternal grandmother. Mexican mythology, like its population, reflects a mixture of indigenous and Spanish influences. Both Mexican and Swiss religion, myths, and legends are a mixture of traditions, and both have a strong attachment to nature and a great symbolism of power surrounding mountains. This series of pieces reflects through fiction on the complexity of the cultures that surround us.” - Diego Moreno

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Diego Moreno is a visual artist, photographer, and narrative storyteller from San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. His work centers themes of identity, religion, violence, affection, and the complexity of family and cultural ties. He has been named as one of the most influential young photographers in the world by The British Journal Of Photography UK; Creative Review UK and FOAM MAGAZINE Netherlands.

Moreno has shown in more than twenty solo exhibitions and multiple group exhibitions across the globe. His photographs are included in several public and private collections including the Getty Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, AirMontreux, FOAM Fotografie Museum, the Fundación Televisa, the Universidad Iberoamericana, and the Centro Cultural Estación Mapocho.

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𝘍𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮
Opening Tues Feb 24 / 6-9PM
Friday Gallery
767 S. Alameda St. #198
Los Angeles, CA
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Pedro Troncoso is an artist from the Dominican Republic whose work layers erased narratives into dreamlike worlds where blurred identities confront colonial impact. In the fragile space between ancestry and autonomy, his work asks: how much of our heritage are we willing to negotiate or rebuild?

His works in 𝘍𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 explores the charged space that exists in the sliver between slumber and the awakened self. Suspended among fragments of memory, desire, and nocturnal fears, mythic scenes unfold in the surreal chaos of parasomnia. His new illustration works are part of his Divining Goddesses series, where Caribbean bodies in a dreamlike trance are pierced by ornamental armatures that mark scars of struggle, reshaping pain into reclaimed power that cuts through history.

He earned his BFA in Illustration at Parsons School of Design after formative studies at Altos de Chavón, La Escuela de Diseño (DR), and holds an MFA in Fine Arts from the New York Academy of Art. His work has been shown at the 29th and 31st Dominican Biennials, NADA, Art Central Hong Kong, ComplexCon, and the AXA Art Prize, with additional exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Puerto Rico, and Beijing.

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𝘍𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮
Opening Tues Feb 26 / 6-9PM
Friday Gallery
RowDTLA 767 S. Alameda St. #198
Los Angeles, CA 90021
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