Mark Ryden 'Eye Am' Show Opens Tonight

Artist: Mark Ryden
Title: Eye Am Art Show
Date: October 30th - December 20th, 2025
Venue: Perrotin Los Angeles
Address: 5036 W. Pico Blvd

*doors open at 5pm on Thursday October 20th, 2025

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Artist Statement

I always feel a certain resistance when asked to write or speak about my work. Painting, for me, begins where language ends. Words are linear - paintings are not. I’m interested in many things: sacred geometry, mysticism, consciousness, natural history, art history. Some are mysterious by nature, others more structured and concrete. But even with the more rational subjects, I’m not drawn to explaining them in my work. To analyze them would be to miss the point. What I’m really trying to paint is what can’t be said - the felt experience of something just beyond the edge of articulation. Not a thing to define, but something to feel.

I believe imagination has been undervalued in favor of intellectual interpretation. In the modern world, people are quick to search for verbal meaning, for an articulated answer, for a neat idea to attach to a piece of art. But that kind of meaning is not my goal. Mystery is. I want my paintings to carry unexplained secrets. “Secret” and “scared" share the same etymological root. I’m trying to paint what is sacred. I want to build a quiet bridge between this world and the other one, a glimpse of the invisible merging with the visible. In making the work for Eye Am, I did my best to let go of conscious restraints. I tried not to paint what I thought I should paint. I tried to make art only for myself. Paradoxically, I believe that’s the most honest way to reach anyone else. Each painting usually begins with something real and personal. Often it's a fragment drawn from my extensive collection of imagery, books, ephemera, toys, statues, icons. I’m an iconophile at heart.

I believe in the power of the image to speak directly to the soul, bypassing the verbal mind. There’s a passage I love from Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now: “All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.” I’ve found this to be true. Real creativity doesn’t come from thinking harder; it comes from stopping thought long enough for something deeper to emerge. The mind can then shape what arises, but it can’t summon it. In that stillness, something ancient and essential can appear. That is the source I try to paint from - not for certainty, but for wonder.

Daniel Arsham + Dr Seuss 'The Lorax' Print Available

Artist: Daniel Arsham + Dr Seuss
Title: The Lorax
Medium: 100% Recycled Poster
Size: 61 x 92 cm
Edition: UNSURE
Price: €72

   

Daniel Arsham is an American artist born in 1980 who lives and works in New York City. Raised in Miami after a childhood in Cleveland, he studied at the Cooper Union, where his interest in architecture, performance and sculpture began to merge into a single practice. Arsham’s signature concept is “fictional archaeology”: he casts everyday objects such as cameras, basketballs, telephones and even cars in geological materials like volcanic ash, selenite and sand, presenting them as future relics that appear freshly unearthed from a distant tomorrow. The eroded surfaces and crystalline fractures give each piece a ghostly elegance, inviting viewers to question how time, value and memory are formed.

Architecture plays a vital role in his work. Walls ripple, staircases dissolve and clocks sink into gallery surfaces, creating environments where the built world behaves like pliable clay. These interventions blur the line between art, design and theatre, a boundary first explored when Merce Cunningham invited Arsham to design stage sets in 2004. That experience led to ongoing collaborations with dance, music and fashion, including projects with Adidas, Dior and Porsche, and the founding of Snarkitecture, a studio that reimagines spatial practice through sculpture and installation.

Despite colour blindness, Arsham employs a largely monochrome palette, ranging from chalk white to coal black, allowing texture and form to carry emotional weight. Major exhibitions include “Paris 3020” at Galerie Perrotin, “Relics in the Landscape” at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and “What Remains” at Moco Barcelona, while his work resides in collections such as the Centre Pompidou and the ICA Miami. By merging romanticism with pop culture and science fiction, Daniel Arsham creates art that feels simultaneously ancient and avant-garde, a poetic reminder that the present is already slipping into myth.

Josh Sperling 'Big Picture' Print Available

Artist: Josh Sperling
Title: Big Picture
Medium: Offset Print
Size: 70 x 39 cm
Edition: 100
Price: $200

Josh Sperling, born 1984 in Oneonta, New York, makes shaped canvases vibrate like neon topographies. Drawing first on screen, he feeds vector curves into a CNC router, laminating wafer thin plywood into undulating strata that echo 1960s minimalism and the Memphis Group’s playful geometry. Raw Belgian linen is then stretched over these skeletal hills, locked with staples, and saturated in custom mixed acrylic over 1,200 proprietary colors mixed in his Ithaca barn studio where ten assistants sand, seam, and spray. The resulting objects hover between painting, sculpture, and design: monochrome “Squiggles” bounce light so aggressively they seem to hum; modular “Composites” slot together like psychedelic Tetris, swallowing entire gallery walls in candy apple gradients.

Early rejection shows in skate shops that sold nothing gave way to a 2016 breakthrough at Joshua Liner Gallery, followed by rapid adoption by Emmanuel Perrotin, who now stages Sperling’s exhibitions from New York to Seoul. Public commissions include a rainbow bench for the SCAD Museum and the four-panel, 30 metre long Big Picture at Perrotin Los Angeles, purposely split so viewers register unity before noticing the seams. Influenced by Ellsworth Kelly’s hard-edge planes and Keith Haring’s rhythmic line, Sperling also credits five years as studio assistant to KAWS for demystifying the art market. Up next: limited edition furniture that translates his warped canvas language into functional ash-wood tables, ensuring the loop between utility and pure optical joy keeps spinning.

Jason Boyd Kinsella 'Mille (Two)' Print Available

Artist: Jason Boyd Kinsella
Title: Mille (Two)
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: 27 x 31.5 Inches
Edition: 100
Price: €1,260

Takashi Murakami 'DOB-kun' Sculptures Available

Artist: Takashi Murakami
Title: DOB-kun
Medium: Vinyl Figure
Size: 9 x 7 x 4 Inches
Edition: 50 Each
Price: $2,250 Each