Frieze Los Angeles 2026: Nevine Mahmoud & Emma Soucek

For Frieze Los Angeles Sebastian Gladstone Gallery is pleased to exhibit a two-person presentation featuring new works by Nevine Mahmoud and Emma Soucek. The pairing brings together two artists exploring form, material, and the edges of image-making through entirely different languages.

Mahmoud debuts a new series of hand-carved Carrara marble sculptures that transform hard stone into sensuous, organic forms. Her works balance intimacy and restraint—both bodily and abstract, elegant and quietly charged.

Soucek’s new paper pulp abstractions offer a striking counterpoint. Made through a process of layering, soaking, and pressing, her pieces turn color and gesture into texture, existing somewhere between painting and sculpture.

Together, Mahmoud and Soucek form a dialogue of opposites: soft and hard, rough and smooth, abstract and figurative. Yet beneath these contrasts lies a shared sensitivity to touch, labor, and transformation. Both artists reimagine how an image can manifest, not just as something seen, but as something felt.