New Theme - Gallery

12/20/2015

Youth activist SPN: Project: living wall counts - stop poaching now!

10/24/2015

Thank you, Nick Mafi and Architectural Digest on your write up on Le Petit Paris - L.A.

Le Petit Paris Los Angeles Beth Holden

10/10/2013

Enough of L.A. as artifice! Check out this inspiring project to bring back Los Angeles' native wildflowers and their nuanced beauty.

LAND is a non-profit public art initiative committed to curating site- and situation-specific contemporary art projects in Los Angeles and beyond.

08/27/2013

Excavation of the Regent Theatre on Main St in Downtown Los Angeles.

08/14/2013

Talking about DIFFRACTION! Head over to Los Angeles, I'm Yours to watch the full video of the artist talk between Zack Stadel, Beth Holden and Darius Sabbaghzadeh elaborating on the female urinal, the blurring of art and design, as well as reforming our categories of aesthetic experience. http://www.laimyours.com/50056/talking-about-diffraction/

NEW THEME Gallery is proud to present DIFFRACTION, an exhibition featuring works of Los Angeles artists Nick Aguayo, Daniel Payavis, Zack Stadel and Beth Holden.…

08/13/2013

Walnut atop walnut. New serving trays now in the gallery!

08/10/2013

Outside of representation.

08/06/2013

The incredible guys behind Perk & Pearl have filmed the artist talk for DIFFRACTION with Zack Stadel, Beth Holden and curator Darius Sabbaghzadeh. Here's a quick teaser - we'll be posting the full video shortly.

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08/01/2013

NEW THEME Gallery is proud to present DIFFRACTION, an exhibition featuring works of Los Angeles artists Nick Aguayo, Daniel Payavis, Zack Stadel and Beth Holden. Varying between painting, sculpture and found images, the work of these four artists engages with a dissemination of geometric and physical forms, and explores narrative techniques of reconstituting meaning.

Nick Aguayo was raised near Palm Springs and received his MFA in Studio Art from the University of California at Irvine. His method of painting is grounded in his interest in abstraction, and his diagrammatic works showcase the processes of their own creation. In his paintings, shapes are contrived, juxtaposed and then overlaid with a grid layout. Through such a process, Aguayo's work seeks to create a dialogue between harmony and dissonance, establishing moments that exist outside of a language of representation.

Daniel Payavis was educated at the University of Texas, Austin, and moved to Los Angeles in 2011. His works on display involve a rigorous pursuit of the modernist form within a landscape of exuberant, kitsch graphic design. Situating palm tree scenes as the backdrop to sober geometric lines, his work creates the effect of European minimalism in the South American jungle, akin to Brasilia, Brazil or the works of Oscar Niemeyer. These series of paintings reflect a lived-in architectural experience laden with emotional or psychotropic elements, creating a cohabitation of contrasting forms.

Zack Stadel grew up in Portland, Oregon and received his MFA in painting and sculpture from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. His untitled series of irregular photographs are appropriated from pornographic imagery and presented in custom wooden frames. Through using the frame as an active agent, Stadel explores how formal subtraction can open familiar readings of explicit content to other narrative possibilities.

Beth Holden is the principal of NEW THEME Inc, a design-build architectural firm with a focus on sustainable practices. Her work, "OPEN STALL", is a conceptual installation of a female urinal, a prototype for a bathroom fixture that still has no definite form or mass appeal. Her sculpture renders transparent the difficulty in equating feminine and masculine forms, not only anatomically, but also within the wider professional and aesthetic realm.

07/26/2013

Greetings from San Francisco!

07/17/2013

Thanks to BUNCH for their support of Friday's artist talk at the gallery! Read their interview with artists Nick Aguayo and Zack Stadel to learn about the artists and their approaches.

West Hollywood architecture firm New Theme is already known for their sustainable approach to design, and recently they’ve expanded their ideology to a gallery space that aims to feature local artists whose values are in line with the company’s own. The gallery’s current “Diffraction” finds four suc...

07/16/2013

Many thanks to Los Angeles, I'm Yours for their coverage of Friday's artist talk at the gallery. Stop by to enjoy an engaging dialogue.

Diffraction Artists’ TalkAs a part of their show Diffraction, NEW THEME is hosting an artist talk Friday, July 19, at 6PM with show participants Zack Stadel and Daniel Payavis. The conversation will be moderated by Darius Sabbaghzadeh and should be great (since their space and programming is so grea...