Zoe Walsh

Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, East 7th Street 1717, 90021, Los Angeles

26 de setembro de 2026 – 28 de fevereiro de 2027

Debuting on ICA LA's 7th street facade is a commissioned, site-specific mural by artist Zoe Walsh (b. 1989, Washington D.C.; lives and works in Los Angeles, CA). As a painter, Walsh refuses and expands the bounds of their chosen medium, disrupting the containers of canvas and paint while bending figure and ground. Their process includes digital modeling, meticulous hand-weeded stencils, and screen printing, which coalesce into dreamy scenes of silhouetted bodies in nature and in pleasure. Gardens, parks, and urban landscapes appear throughout Walsh's paintings as sites for queer intimacy and possibility, reclaimed in the face of systemic erasure. In composing their montages, Walsh combines material from queer archives, topographic maps, and found images with photographs of their own community staged in their garden. Refracted through Walsh's prismatic hand, these references become emergent visions of queer and trans connection. Oscillating between vibrancy and concealment, Walsh's work confounds legibility, inviting ways of seeing that shift, shimmer, and unfold. The forthcoming mural formally and conceptually expands upon these lines of inquiry, focusing in particular on the ecologies of Los Angeles.