Make Room

Make Room Established in 2017, Make Room is an exhibition and performance space aimed to introduce perspective

Established in 2017, Make Room is an exhibition and performance space aims to introduce perspectives of migrating artists with experimental practices.

We are proud to share that “Rattle earth” from Sarah Rosalena’s solo exhibition layer by layer at Make Room is acquired ...
06/20/2026

We are proud to share that “Rattle earth” from Sarah Rosalena’s solo exhibition layer by layer at Make Room is acquired by Jarl Mohn to be added to MAC3 collection.

The MAC3 collection was seeded by a gift of nearly 280 works from the collection of Jarl and Pamela Mohn, largely amassed over the last 20 years, comprised of paintings, sculptures, and mixed-media works by L.A. artists. In addition to the Mohns’ gift, the Hammer Museum enhanced the MAC3 collection with 80 works previously acquired by the museum through its Made in L.A. biennials since 2012, bringing the initial total number of works in the MAC3 collection to more than 340. The collection will continue to grow with annual acquisitions jointly selected by all three museums and funded through the MAC3 endowment. The MAC3 collection is available to all three museums for display, and for loans to other museums around the world.

Our gratitude to Jarl and MAC3 for supporting Sarah Rosalena’s practice.

Today is the last day to see layer by layer at Make Room!

Get ready Berlin! Yuri Yuan’s first European solo exhibition Wanderlust opens at Haverkampf Leistenschneider this Friday...
06/12/2026

Get ready Berlin! Yuri Yuan’s first European solo exhibition Wanderlust opens at Haverkampf Leistenschneider this Friday June 12 with a reception from 6-8pm.
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Yuri Yuan’s paintings gesture toward themes of geographical and emotional distance through carefully staged relationships between figures and their surroundings. Imbued with visual symbolism, her landscapes and domestic scenes become projections of interior psychological states. This new body of work investigates belonging and the meaning of “home” for an artist whose roots extend across multiple places. It emphasizes the importance of passage over arrival, witness over judgment, in an age when life often seems to move faster than reflection.

Yuan’s recurrent motifs of distance and longing recall Caspar David Friedrich’s ”Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog“ and Gustave Courbet’s ”Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet“—works the artist encountered early in her career while visiting the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin. In the spirit of wanderlust, the paintings in this exhibition function as visual records of a biography shaped by movement and displacement. Born in China, educated in Singapore and Chicago, and now based near New York City, Yuan explores the sensation of being “in-between.” Her works are characterized by precise layers of dry and saturated color, revealing the influence of Post-Impressionism, particularly Pierre Bonnard. This painterly approach is paired with a deliberate emotional restraint that runs through her iconography.

Yuri Yuan is represented by Alexander Berggruen, New York Alexander Berggruen and Make Room Gallery, LA MAKE ROOM 創造社 . She lives and works in Jersey City, NJ.

NOW ON VIEW - Sarah Rosalena’s solo exhibition layer by layer coincides with the upcoming unveiling of the artist’s monu...
05/27/2026

NOW ON VIEW - Sarah Rosalena’s solo exhibition layer by layer coincides with the upcoming unveiling of the artist’s monumental textile commission for the new David Geffen Galleries at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and expands her ongoing investigation both conceptually and physically into weaving as a form of ecological mapping, where land, sky, and cosmos remain in constant relation, and constant flux. Dimension and form are observed in the micro and macro, offering views of complex weave structures and new, voluminous forms that blend basketry and textile.

A toast, in retrospect, to the opening dinner party for Sarah Rosalena’s layer by layer. To the collectors, curators, ar...
05/22/2026

A toast, in retrospect, to the opening dinner party for Sarah Rosalena’s layer by layer. To the collectors, curators, artists, and friends who filled the room with intelligence, generosity, and joy. These are the evenings that remind us why we built this gallery.

Sarah Rosalena: layer by layer is on view through June 20
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05/16/2026

Sarah Rosalena’s exhibition “layer by layer” opens today. Join us for the opening reception at 6–9 PM. Rosalena intentionally collapses the distance between weaving and mapping: the woven surface becomes both image and object, both representation and terrain. Her interdisciplinary practice moves fluidly between basketry, digital technology, natural dye processes, and handweaving to consider how land is understood, recorded, and transformed. In Layer by Layer, material itself becomes a way of rethinking the landscape — not as something fixed or extractable, but as a layered, complex ecological system, living in continual change.

For inquiries, email [email protected] or message us on our collector hotline on WhatsApp +1 (213) 697-9422.

Sarah Rosalena’s works Transposing A Form (2019) and Above Below (2020) are currently featured in the exhibition Grounde...
05/14/2026

Sarah Rosalena’s works Transposing A Form (2019) and Above Below (2020) are currently featured in the exhibition Grounded .
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art
(LACMA) presents Grounded , a multi-media exhibition that invites visitors to contemplate land not just as terrain, but as a foundation for exploring history, ecology, sovereignty, memory, and home. Through 40 works by 35 artists based across the
Americas and the Pacific, the exhibition illuminates how human experience is embedded in the land. Artists consider the lasting effects of colonialism and
imperialism; share stories of forced migration and displacement; engage with Indigenous mythologies and motifs; and retell ancestral histories by forging new aesthetic languages. Curated by

photo: Jennalee Harmon
Transposing a Form, 2019
3D printed ceramic, MMS-2 martian regolith simulant, clay, glaze

We look forward to presenting Sarah Rosalena’s solo exhibition “layer by layer” opening this Saturday 6-9PM.

Bix Archer (b. 1997) is an artist from San Francisco. She received her MFA from the Yale School of Art in2025 and a BA...
05/14/2026

Bix Archer (b. 1997) is an artist from San Francisco. She received her MFA from the Yale School of Art in2025 and a BA from Yale College in 2019. She is a two-time recipient of grants from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, and has been an artist in residence with the Royal Drawing School, the Vermont Studio Center and the Yale-Norfolk School of Art.

“Another, on a Sunday while traveling up I-5. It rained for most of the drive past Redding, casting the sky a grey-blue that seems outside of time, unplaceable until it’s suddenly dark. Snatches of snow have begun to appear on the mountains that peek out from the grey expanse, fringed by
green-black pines. As I work, the engine’s vibrations travel up through my arm, sending my hand dancing across the surface of the wood. The world moves through me as I move through it.“

— Bix Archer, May 2026

𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐮𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 ”𝐁𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞“ 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟔, 𝟔–𝟗 𝐏𝐌!

For inquiries, email [email protected] or message us on our collector hotline on WhatsApp +1 (213) 697-9422.

Wishing Andrew Sendor a happiest birthday! Thank you for the friendship and what you have created for the world! 💙
05/12/2026

Wishing Andrew Sendor a happiest birthday! Thank you for the friendship and what you have created for the world! 💙

Wishing Andrew Sendor a happiest birthday! 🎂
05/12/2026

Wishing Andrew Sendor a happiest birthday! 🎂

Congratulations to Xin Liu on her inclusion at the 61st Venice Biennale! New work by Xin Liu’s is now on view in the Uzb...
05/10/2026

Congratulations to Xin Liu on her inclusion at the 61st Venice Biennale! New work by Xin Liu’s is now on view in the Uzbekistan National Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale until November 22, 2026. Presented in the Quarta Tesa at the Arsenale, Liu’s newly commissioned work responds directly to the context of the Aral Sea, and equally the larger metropolitan city of Venice. Centered on a dissolving sculpture made of PET plastics inside a bioreactor tank - suggestive of a skeletal creature or biomorphic plant - Liu imagines a world where metropolitan cities with an excess of manmade materials are confronted by the appetites of natural microbes.
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Installation view, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘦𝘢, Uzbekistan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Italy, 2026. Photo credit: Gerda Studio
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