At Art Basel Miami Beach 2026 Galleries Section, Booth A4, Philip Martin Gallery is proud to present new and historically significant works by Carl Cheng, Christy Matson, Aaron Morse, Laurie Nye, Sophie Treppendahl and Sung Jik Yang. In their respective practices, these six artists of different backgrounds and generations consider art-making - be it sculpture, textiles, paintings or works on paper - as a means by which to investigate interiority, human connection, the parameters of creation and the complexities of the modern world.
Carl CHENG (b. 1942, San Francisco, CA) fashioned his Liquid/Solid works in 1980 in China where, as an American of Chinese descent, he was able to live and work without a government minder. Cheng's trip - made just after the fall of the Gang of Four - before the emergence of China on the world stage as we know it today is of intense art-historical scholarship. Cheng's work is currently the subject of the solo exhibition, "Nature Never Loses," at Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA; originated The Contemporary Austin (2024, Austin, TX); toured ICA Philadelphia (2024, Philadelphia, PA); Bonnefanten (2025, Maastricht, Netherlands); Museum Tinguely (2025 Basel, Switzlerand). Institutional solo and group exhibitions include, “American Art in the 1960s,” Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY); “A Garden of Promise and Dissent” The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum ( Ridgefield, CT); “Alias,” M Leuven (Leuven, Belgium); “Material Behavior, “ REDCAT (Los Angeles, CA); “Potential Worlds 2: Eco-Fictions,” Migros Museum of Contemporary Art (Zürich, Switzerland); “3D: Double Vision,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA); “Specters of Disruption,” de Young Museum (San Francisco, CA); “Emerald City,” K11 Art Foundation (Hong Kong); Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum (Santa Barbara, CA); LIST Visual Arts Center at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Boston, MA); ASG Foundation Gallery (Nagoya, Japan); “The Photographic Object 1970,” Le Consortium (Dijon, France); )“Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981,” Museum of Contemporary Art, (Los Angeles, CA); “Proof: Los Angeles Art and the Photography 1960- 1980,” Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach, CA); “Photography into Sculpture,” Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY); “Vision and Expression,” George Eastman Museum (Rochester, NY). Carl Cheng lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Christy MATSON (b. 1979, Seattle, WA) makes woven paper pieces that explore both objective and non-objective motifs alike with an eye towards not only landscape, but also abstraction. Christy Matson's work is the subject of "Index Color," a new book published by Philip Martin Gallery. Recent exhibitions include Philip Martin Gallery (Los Angeles, CA); Milwaukee Art Museum (Milwaukee, WI); Cranbook Museum of Art (Bloomfield Hills, MI); Long Beach Museum of Art (Long Beach, CA); "Beyond: Tapestry Expanded," Peeler Art Center, DePauw University (Greencastle, IN); "Arcadia and Elsewhere," James Cohan Gallery (New York, NY); "Seeing Chicago," curated by Duro Olowu, Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, IL); "40 Under 40: Craft Futuresr," Smithsonian Museum of American Art (Washington, DC); John Michael Kohler Art Center (Sheboygan, WI); Contemporary Arts Museum (Houston, TX); Knoxville Museum of Art (Knoxville, TN); Municipio di Maniago, (Pordenone Italy); Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA); Ciurlionis National Museum of Art (Kaunas, Lithuania); Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago, IL); Bakersfield Museum of Art (Bakersfield, CA); Craft and Folk Art Museum, (Los Angeles, CA); and Museum of Craft and Folk Art (San Francisco, CA). Articles and reviews on Christy Matson’s work have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Sculpture, Fiber Arts, Textile, Artillery, Surface Design Journal and Time Out. Christy Matson lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
In the work of Aaron MORSE (b. 1974, Tucson, AZ) landscape is non-hierarchical; time is fluid; and imagery, both abstract and representational - whether drawn from textbooks, postcards, advertising, comic books, collage, drawings, paintings, or range of lived experiences - is a multiverse of possibility and interpretation. Aaron Morse’s recent solo and group exhibitions include Philip Martin Gallery (Los Angeles, CA); Blanton Museum of Art (Austin, TX); Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, CA); Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, CA); Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara, CA); Contemporary Arts Museum (Houston, TX); Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park, KS); Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (Logan, UT); Weatherspoon Art Museum (Greensboro, NC); Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery At Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY). Aaron Morse is included in the Museum Collections of Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, CA); Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara, CA); Henry Art Gallery (Seattle, WA); Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, CA); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA); Hilbert Museum of California Art (Orange, CA); Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (Logan, UT); Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park, KS); Blanton Museum of Art (Austin, TX); Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY); Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY); Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY); Rhode Island School of Design, (Providence, RI). Morse’s work has been reviewed in such publications as Los Angeles Times, Time Out, Flaunt, Tema Celeste, and Artweek. Aaron Morse lives and works in Los Angeles.
For Laurie NYE (b. 1972, Memphis, TN), nature is a place of self-discovery, connection and celebration. Her vivid brushwork, succinct color, and sophisticated use of line breaks up the picture plane, emphasizing its materiality, flatness, and the construction of painterly space. Recent exhibitions include "This World Only" (Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA); "The Battlefield Where the Moon says I Love You" (Rachel Uffner Gallery, NY); “A Particular Kind of Heaven,” Parrasch Heijnen (Los Angeles, CA); "The Moth & The Thunderclap,” Modern Art (London, UK); “BodyLand,” Galerie Max Hetzler (Berlin, Germany); "Unnatural Nature: Post-Pop Landscapes,” Acquavella (New York, NY); Van Doren Waxter (New York, NY); Bark Berlin Gallery (Berlin, Germany); The Pit (Glendale, CA); Odd Ark (Los Angeles, CA); Big Pictures LA (Los Angeles, CA); Blake and Vargas, (Berlin, Germany); The Dot Project, (London, UK); Day and Night Gallery (Atlanta, GA); La Loma Projects, (Pasadena, CA); and Unpaved Gallery (Yucca Valley, CA). Laurie Nye’s artist project, “Chickasaw Moon,” at Odd Ark (Los Angeles, CA) was an Artforum Critics Pick. Laurie Nye’s solo exhibition at Philip Martin Gallery was Artforum Best of Year 2021 feature. Nye has work in the OZ Art Northwest Arkansas, (Bentonville, AR) collection. Her work has been reviewed in such publications as Artillery, Los Angeles Times, Artforum, FAD Magazine and LA Weekly. Laurie Nye lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Sophie TREPPENDAHL (b. 1991, Baton Rouge, LA) captures the warmth and emotional gravity of everyday domestic spaces. Intimately tuned to the behavior of light and shadow, Treppendahl paints lived-in interiors, sun-dappled tables, and quiet gatherings. Her expressive brushwork and rich palette transform ordinary, fleeting moments into generous visual meditations on intimacy, memory, and presence. Treppendahl's work was featured in The New York Times front-page Arts Section. Recent and upcoming solo and group exhibitions include Philip Martin Gallery (Los Angeles, CA); James Cohan (New York, NY); Haverkampf Leistenschneider (Berlin, Germany); Jack Hanley Gallery (New York, NY); Hashimoto Contemporary (New York, NY); Johansson Projects (Oakland, CA); Quirk Gallery (Richmond, VA); Kenise Barnes Fine Art (Larchmont, NY); 1969 Gallery (New York, NY); Carrie Secrist Gallery (Chicago, IL); Heaven Gallery (Chicago, IL); Indianapolis Art Center (Indianapolis, IN); Ada Gallery (Richmond, VA); Dread Lounge (Los Angeles, CA); The Broad (Richmond, CA); How’s Howard (Boston, MA); The Southern Gallery (Charleston, SC); Gildar Gallery (Denver, CO); and Richard and Dolly Mass Gallery (Purchase, NY). Treppendahl has been awarded residencies with the Golden Foundation (New Berlin, NY); 100 W Corsicana (Corsicana, TX); The Provincial (Chief, MI); and The Wassaic Project (Wassais, NY). Her work has been reviewed in publications such as Booooooom, White Hot Magazine of Contemporary Art, Hyperallergic, and Chicago Reader. Treppendahl lives and works in New Orleans, LA.
South Korean–born painter Sung Jik YANG creates evocative paintings that capture the quiet intimacy, psychological depth, and spontaneous energy of modern life. Working primarily in the alla prima (wet-on-wet) oil painting technique, Yang applies quick, decisive brushstrokes in a single sitting, channeling the fluid immediacy of figures like Édouard Manet. Sung Jik Yang’s recent and upcoming exhibitions include Philip Martin Gallery (Los Angeles, CA); Sim Smith (London, UK); X Museum (Beijing, China); Flag Foundation (New York, NY); Friends Indeed Gallery (San Francisco, CA). Yang lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Private Days (by invitation only)
Wednesday, December 2, 2026
11am-7pm, First Choice ; 4pm-7pm, Preview
Thursday, December 3, 2026
11am-7pm, First Choice and Preview; 4pm-7pm, Vernissage
Public Hours
Friday, December 4, 2026, 11am-6pm
Saturday, December 5, 2026, 11am-6pm
Sunday, December 6, 2026, 11am-6pm
Location
Miami Beach Convention Center
1901 Convention Center Drive
Miami Beach, FL 33139
Philip Martin Gallery is open Wednesday - Saturday from 11-5. For additional images, or information please email info@philipmartingallery.com, or call 323-507-2037. Philip Martin Gallery is located at 3342 Verdugo Road, Los Angeles, CA.
