Hauser & Wirth
Frieze Los Angeles

Ambera Wellmann

Frieze Los Angeles

20 – 23 February 2025

Booth D11

For this year’s Frieze Los Angeles, Hauser & Wirth and Company Gallery will host a solo presentation of new works by Ambera Wellmann. Wellmann has attracted international attention for paintings that recall the achievements of Renaissance and Baroque masters, with gorgeously complex compositions in which unanchored figures and disembodied faces appear, merge and dissolve in richly rendered landscapes of an imagined future. Her art constitutes a visual paean to metamorphosis, vulnerability and collectivity.

On the heels of Wellmann’s fall 2024 presentation at the 15th Gwangju Biennial, and as a prelude to her major two-venue New York solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth and Company Gallery in fall of 2025, the upcoming Frieze LA stand has been organized under the aegis of the two galleries’ joint representation of the artist as part of Hauser & Wirth’s Collective Impact model.

About the artist

Ambera Wellmann was born in 1982 in the port town of Lunenberg, Nova Scotia. She received her undergraduate degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax and studied at Cooper Union in New York. In 2016, while pursuing a master’s degree at the University of Guelph in Ontario, she received the Joseph Plaskett Award in Painting, which allowed her to live and work in Berlin.

In 2017, Wellmann won the prestigious RBC Canadian Painting Competition for work that explored many of the themes and methods she continues to pursue today in paintings constructed from numerous layers of intricately worked wet oils, often depicting nebulous human and animal forms, sometimes in extremis or entwined in states of ecstasy, figurative in only a tenuous sense. 'I am often just looking for an arrangement with the bodies that actually feels impossible,’ Wellmann says, 'in order to create a diagram for what kind of infinite possibilities the body can have.’

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