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Where Strategy Meets Culture:
Enabling cultural institutions, galleries, artists, private collections.
Advisor at @prattfinearts @newinc @artadia.

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Comment QUESTIONS and I'll send you my top 50 questions (25 conversation starters, 25 follow ups) and the framework to come up with questions in the spot and deepen the conversation.

(Btw, im not in the hospital anymore)

In this episode of 100 questions to turn strangers into friends:

1) What's your favorite form of potato?
2) what's your greatest fear in life?
3) what's something u don't want people to stereotype about you?
4) what passion drives you and made you do this x move/job/leap?

Thank you @solipartovi @aurora.artprojects @jodi_md21 & Hannah for the great questions!

Hit that follow if you wanna become the person that can talk to anyone, ask great questions that deepen conversation, open doors of opportunity and close deals.

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Also, Happy to be part of “Bodies of Memory” , curated by @aurora.artprojects Sameer Aurora as part of Pathways, EFA’s Open Studios curatorial initiative highlighting the creative processes behind contemporary art. Bringing together nine artists, the exhibition explores memory, displacement, and belonging through everyday materials and inherited stories. 🤍

@fannyallie @whitneyaoldenburg @nazliefee @reginaparra @yaliromagoza @ayoungyustudio @jiazilla @efastudios

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It’s that time of year! EFA Open Studios 2026 is almost here! @efastudios
Explore 85 artist studios (including mine), artist talks, exhibitions, and more. This year I’m also thrilled to be part of Pathways: Bodies of Memory, curated by Sameer Aurora @aurora.artprojects . The exhibition brings together nine EFA artists whose practices explore memory, displacement, and belonging, and the ways our bodies and materials carry both personal and collective histories.
Come say hi! I’ll be at Studio 908. 🐣

Friday, October 9 | 6–9 PM
Saturday, October 10 | 1–6 PM
📍 323 W 39th St, NYC

Photo credit: Steve Riskind

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Join us for a final night wandering the wilds of our 𝘍𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 season. We’re closing the exhibition with a Sonic Salon on Wed May 6th from 6-9pm, co-hosted with our dear friends at @dublab, LA’s beloved community-supported radio station.

Together we’re turning the gallery into a 𝘚𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤 𝘋𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘵 listening party, with sounds curated from Dublab’s “ꜱʜᴇʟꜰ ʀᴇꜱɪᴅᴇɴᴄʏ” at Friday Gallery, and an invitation to collage an album cover of your own strange imaginings. We’ll have found scraps of dreamlike images, myth and spirit lore, old record sleeves, and everything you need to create. It’s a night to slow down together, let go, and dream a furry little dream.

As the closing reception of the exhibition, the evening is a last moment to experience works from Roberto Benavidez, Anindita Dutta, Diego Moreno, Larissa De Jesús Negrón, Rafaela Mascaro and Pedro Troncoso.

Come sink in. Let’s rumpus, you wild things.
☁️ rsvp at link in bio ☁️

SONIC DRIFT LISTENING PARTY
Sounds curated by @sadieibrahimmm, dublab
Wed May 6th, 6-9pm
Friday Gallery, RowDTLA
767 S. Alameda St, Suite 198, Los Angeles

Music By:
ʟɪᴏɴᴍɪʟᴋ / @lionmilk_
ᴍᴏᴛɪᴏɴ ᴡᴀʀᴅ/ @motion_ward
ᴋᴏʜɪɴᴏᴏʀɢᴀꜱᴍ / @shebreaks4rainbows
ᴄᴏʟʟᴏʙᴏʜ / @colloboh
ᴅʀᴇᴀᴍ ᴄʀᴇᴀꜱᴇ / @thewitchinghours
ᴄᴊ ᴄʟᴇᴏ ᴄᴀꜱꜱᴇᴛᴛʀᴀ / @deathtodigital
ᴀʜᴍᴇᴅ ɢᴏᴜᴅᴀ / @ahlaanbeeek

Fever Dream exhibition with works by:
@roberto_benavidez
@diiegotv
@aninditadutta.studio
@iwaspedro
@ldjnegron
@rafaelamascaro
@cc_fc.cc
Curated with @aurora.artprojects

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🌶️Tarka Dawat 04 🌶️
We are so grateful to everyone who helped us put together Tarka Dawat (you know who you are 🤍) and to the phenomenal artists who transported us to another dimension @chaialeh @binnttt @camilacelin @dynomanmusic ✨

This obviously wouldn’t be possible without all the people who came, we would be no where without community. Thank you for entrusting us with your time and attention. Photos can only capture the beauty that unfolded, many people and moments not captured will remain ingrained in our memories 🥰 see you next time!

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𝘍𝘌𝘝𝘌𝘙 𝘋𝘙𝘌𝘈𝘔 at Friday Gallery
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Closing Reception Wed May 6, 6-9pm

Works by:
Roberto Benavidez @roberto_benavidez
Anindita Dutta @aninditadutta.studio
Rafaela Mascaro @rafaelamascaro
Diego Moreno @diiegotv
Larissa De Jesús Negrón @ldjnegron
Pedro Troncoso @iwaspedro
Curated with @aurora.artprojects
Shelf Residencies with @zhu.ziyuan @minettaartolfaction @sadieibrahimmm @hassanhajjaj_larache @dublab @atmos @artandolfaction @cc_fc.cc @keiichitanaami_official @mangaart.jp

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DM for Catalog and Pricelist ☁️

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Perla Cautiva (Captive Pearl)

from Diosas Divididas

On view at @thefriday.gallery - Los Angeles

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Feliz feliz feliz NYC
🗽☀️🧝‍♀️🪭

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𝘍𝘌𝘝𝘌𝘙 𝘋𝘙𝘌𝘈𝘔 at Friday Gallery

Our spring 26 season brings together artists drawing from global surrealist lineages, from Mexican spirit lore to Dominican dream-worlds. Curated with @aurora.artprojects featuring works by Roberto Benavidez @roberto_benavidez, Anindita Dutta @aninditadutta.studio, Rafaela Mascaro @rafaelamascaro, Diego Moreno @diiegotv, Larissa De Jesús Negrón @ldjnegron, and Pedro Troncoso @iwaspedro.

Across cultures and time, moments of upheaval have produced revivals of esoteric thinking, mystical symbolism, and surrealist creative movements. When systems collapse, our trust in straight-line thinking crumbles along with them. So we reach for other maps: the subconscious, the spiritual, the strange. The places that still feel alive.

The exhibition is paired with five “Shelf Residencies” - tiny stages for delightfully strange objects and stories. Guest curated by dublab @dublab (sound & surrealism 🎧) the Institute for Art and Olfaction @artandolfaction (scent & surrealism 👃), Atmos Magazine @atmos (nature & surrealism 🐍), Zoey Zhu and Chinese design collective “Cool and Cute Friends Club” @zhu.ziyuan @cc_fc.cc (form & surrealism ✨) and the Andy Wahloo collection @andywahloo_apparel from Moroccan artist Hassan Hajjaj @hassanhajjaj_larache (sight & surrealism ☁️).

As Max declares in Where the Wild Things Are, “Let the Wild Rumpus Begin.”

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𝘍𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮
Friday Gallery
On view Feb 24 - May 16
767 S. Alameda St. Suite 198
Los Angeles, CA 90021

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The coolest gallery in LA btw.
It’s called the Friday gallery on the ROW dtla.

Thank you for having me Mitch and Mubarak, the reception was beautiful I had such an amazing night.🤍

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a soursop sliced.
scars beneath the Caribbean paradise.
divided fruit carried on the head.
labor. survival. romanticized?

📍 Opening TONIGHT!!!
“Fever Dream” - @thefriday.gallery - Los Angeles
767 S. Alameda St, Suite 198

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Larissa De Jesús Negrón in 𝘍𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 at Friday Gallery.

Larissa De Jesús Negrón @ldjnegron is a multidisciplinary artist from Puerto Rico working across painting, installation, and visual storytelling. Her practice constructs surreal landscapes that weave memory, emotional inquiry, and embodied experience. Water functions as a central metaphor for psychological movement and introspection, while the female body operates as archive and agent, grounding her work in themes of vulnerability, femininity, and inner transformation.

Her work “Retrato psicológico” (in spray paint, oil, soft pastels, and pencil) is an imagined landscape of introspection where inner and outer worlds blur. Anchored by a fragile glow, the figures merge with native plants graced with watching eyes. Set in the artist’s backyard, this is less a portrait of a woman than a portrait of thinking itself.

Larissa’s work has been exhibited extensively, including in solo exhibitions at Anna Zorina Gallery and Nicodim, and in group shows at Harpers Gallery, The Hole and Nino Mier. She has also shown at leading art fairs, including KIAF Seoul, NADA, Untitled and The Armory Show.

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𝘍𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮
Opening Tues Feb 24 / 6-9PM
Curated with @aurora.artprojects
Friday Gallery
767 S. Alameda St. Suite 198
Los Angeles, CA
☁️ RSVP at link in bio

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