on view
june - july
available works
induction gallery is pleased to present an online viewing room of works currently installed in the gallery’s viewing rooms. our june-july selection features works by luis miguel anaya, alex ehmer, jacob barri, sarah rose niemiec, lena daly, and marcel alcalá.
spanning painting, sculpture, monoprints, and installation, induction’s june-july selection finds six artists working through the body as both subject and material — together, the works trace a throughline of identity worked out in material — bodies built, dissolved, and reassembled across very different hands.
luis miguel anaya, blue moon whispers, 2026
luis miguel anaya, Velvet Underground (Banana Head), 2026
luis miguel anaya is a mexico-born los-angeles based artist whose paintings capture moments and slivers of time no one else sees—the private glance in the mirror when you’re at your most vulnerable, the contemplative state one finds themselves in as they gaze out a bedroom window, the sudden awareness of time passing. his work inhabits the threshold between feeling and form, tracing interior life rarely spoken aloud.
alex ehmer, gnaw, 2026
alex ehmer is a mixed-media artist whose practice intertwines material experimentation with investigations into non-traditional objects and forms. working primarily with latex, wax, clay, and sourced or discarded materials, ehmer draws from concepts of the readymade to challenge conventional distinctions of what is considered art.
in the body of work ‘candles’, these ideas are explored through candle-based sculptures and wall works in which wax is shaped into various forms and activated through ignition. as the pieces burn, they transform through controlled processes, making time an active component of the work. fire operates simultaneously as material and metaphor— associated with warmth, survival, destruction, and ritual, while the familiar format of the candle suggests containment or safety. ehmer introduces tension between comfort and unease through precariously placed wicks and structures that rely on flame, with some works designed to bleed using pigmented wax or simulated blood, evoking bodily associations.
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alex ehmer, spine, 2026
jacob barri’s work is driven by ideas tied to homoeroticism, queer histories, how authenticity emerges through performance, and how capitalism has made queer culture more famous than any queer person. through installation, found imagery, traditional photography, and alternative printing processes, the artist investigates these concepts. though positioned as the photographer, the artist acknowledges how subjects, either himself or others, actively shape the work through their own contributions of gesture, costume, or presence.
jacob barri, Communal Actualization in the Age of Man #1, 2025
jacob barri, Self Actualization in the Age of Man #3, 2026
sarah rose niemiec's paintings find poetry in the quietly observed corners of everyday life. working with a flattened and matte sensibility the artist renders the everyday and natural landscape with equal parts precision and stillness. with a controled and vivid palette—the electric teal of a prickly pear pad, the dusty pink blossoms of a jacaranda against a still sky—niemiec’s paintings draw upon nostaligia and memory, of time and place, of happenstance.
niemiec’s practice evolves in closely looking and genuine affection for the fleeting moment—the places people pass through, mark, and call home.
sarah rose niemiec, flowers and topo chico, 2025
sarah rose niemiec, menton window, 2026
sarah rose niemiec, window (cheremoya ave), 2026
lena daly’s luminous sculptures use light as material, presence as current, and touch as conductor. using glass, noble gas, and aluminum, these pieces glow without asking — and reach back when you do. an electric field flowering towards skin, neon is held within as plasma flows towards the warmth of the hand.
using glass and noble gases atmospherically, where they settle into each other, sharing electrons, and sharing the color field. this is how the colors stay separate instead of blurring togehter. a material reaction, colors illuminated by gas cause a flickering motion, similar to a drawing becoming animated through film.
lena daly, This Way (Sliding Out), 2025
lena daly, This Way (Up), 2025
lena daly, This Way (Up), 2025
marcel alcalá‘s drawings channel a fauvist sensibility, rendering the body in loose, calligraphic outlines that feel closer to glyph than anatomy. figures disappear into their surroundings: a crimson nude tangles in vines, a russet-orange figure crouches among flowers tucked amidst a church; a thicket of gestural strokes and mystique. alcalá draws upon on queer life in the wild, suggesting a private mythology, where the saturated palettes lend each drawing the intensity of a fever dream.
marcel alcalá, Behind the Palace, 2025
marcel alcalá, Fresh Girlie, 2025
marcel alcalá, Frieze portrait (Paul Sepuya), 2025