NIKITA GALE - SEAT MAP 1
NIKITA GALE - SEAT MAP 1
A seat map by Nikita Gale is just that - a seat map to a nameless performance in a nameless space referencing a seat in a section that you may or may not occupy. Original imagery by Gale screen printed in 2 colors floats in the middle of an oversized sheet of paper to exaggerate the space and the shape of it all.
19”x25” printed in black ink of heavy weight archival paper with a red printed accent to mark the seat
print ships flat
if you’d like a frame for it you can purchase one - it would be the frame pictured here which is a light birchwood natural wood frame with a 2” drop from the wall - a uv protected sheet of acrylic and ready to hung. Shipping lead time is about 3 weeks.
Edition of 50 -
ARTIST BIO - Nikita Gale is an artist living and working in Los Angeles, California. The artist holds a BA in Anthropology with an emphasis in Archaeological Studies from Yale University and an MFA in New Genres from UCLA.
Gale's work explores the relationship between materials, power, and attention. A key tenet of the artist's practice is that the structures that shape attention determine who or what is seen, heard, recorded, remembered, and believed.
Gale's practice examines the ways in which silence, noise, and visibility function as political positions and conditions. Gale’s broad-ranging installations – often comprising concrete, barricades, video and automated sound and lighting – blur formal and disciplinary boundaries, engaging with concerns of mediation and automation in contemporary performance. By approaching reproduction as a mechanism that connects humans to a desire for extension and amplification through both biological and industrial processes, the artist’s work points to the ways that technology not only functions as an extension and amplification of the body but also as a means by which labor and violence are displaced and concentrated.
The artist’s work has recently been exhibited in the 2024 Whitney Biennial (New York); Chisenhale (London); LAXART (Los Angeles); 52 Walker (New York); MoMA PS1 (New York); Kunstraum Kreuzberg (Berlin); Swiss Institute (New York); California African American Museum (Los Angeles); The Studio Museum in Harlem (New York); and in “Made in L.A. 2018” at the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles).
Gale is represented by Petzel (New York), 56 Henry (New York), Commonwealth & Council (Los Angeles), and Emalin (London).
Nikita Gale’s work has appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, Texte zur Kunst, Artforum, Mousse, Art in America, Art21, AQNB, Frieze, Vogue, and Flash Art. Nikita is a Contributing Editor at Triple Canopy, a magazine and publishing platform based in New York City and a former board member of GREX, the west coast affiliate of the AK Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems. Currently, Gale serves on the Artist Advisory Councils of the Hammer Museum and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and is a member of The Salmon Creek Farm Community Council.