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“The Pet”, 2026.

Tonight, join us for the public reception of Slow Burn, a solo exhibition by Alex Ehmer, on view at Lista Studios in Brooklyn.

Public Reception
Wednesday, September 16
6–8 PM

Selected through Uncool Gallery’s Solo Show Open Call, Slow Burn brings together works from Ehmer’s ongoing Candles series, exploring memory, care, bodily vulnerability, ritual, and transformation through beeswax, sculpture, installation, and photographic transfer.
Address: Industry City, Building 4, 6th Floor, Lista Studios, B620, 68 35th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232

Public Talk
Sunday, September 20
5:30 PM
Alex Ehmer in conversation, moderated by Meghan Smith, with invited guest artists.

The exhibition remains on view through September 20 and is open for visits by appointment.

#art #artwork #sculpture #candle @uncoolgallery by @waxxplay

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“No No Square”, 2026.

Please don’t ban me it’s not real.

Made from a medical armature and jelly wax. taken in Los Angeles, California by @waxxplay

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IV, 2026.

Made from an IV stand, thread, and yellow beeswax.

Photos taken by @bycastrato taken in Seattle, Washington by @waxxplay

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Get to know Alex Ehmer, whose sculptural work is featured in The Anatomy of Things, opening this Saturday at Upper Market Gallery.

Alex Ehmer (b. 1996, San Francisco, CA) is a mixed-media artist based in San Francisco whose practice combines material experimentation with investigations into nontraditional objects and forms. Working primarily with wax, latex, clay, textiles, and sourced or discarded materials, they explore themes of discardment, repair, bodily vulnerability, and transformation through sculptural processes that blur distinctions between care and damage. Drawing from psychological, medical, and sociological frameworks, their work often incorporates clinical aesthetics, participatory elements, and time-based transformation to examine how lived experience is processed and externalized through material.

Ehmer received a BFA in Printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2019 and is currently pursuing an MFA at California College of the Arts. Their work has been exhibited at 127010, 500 Capp Street, Bass & Reiner, MRKT Gallery, Goodmother Gallery, Induction Gallery, Side Bitch Projects, Uncool Gallery, Upper Market Gallery, and SOMArts. Alongside their studio practice, Ehmer maintains an independent curatorial practice focused on exhibitions and arts programming throughout the Bay Area, collaborating with artist-run spaces, galleries, and nonprofit institutions. Upcoming exhibitions include group presentations at ICA San José and YBCA in March 2027, as well as a solo exhibition in Oakland in January 2027.

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Alex Ehmer
Fat, 2026
Wax on board
40 x 40 inches

On view at UMG October 17 — December 12 taken in San Francisco, California by @waxxplay

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“Specs’ Twelve” , 2026.

Photo transfer, gauche, wax on board. taken in San Francisco, California by @waxxplay

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“Fat,” 2026

San Francisco:

The Murphy Cadogan Award exhibition opens October 16 from 7:00 PM onwards. @somarts

“The Anatomy of Things” opens at Upper Market Gallery October 17 from 6:00 PM onwards. @uppermarketgallery

Hope to see you there! taken in San Francisco, California by @waxxplay

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“Slow Burn” 2026. Installation photography by Garrett Carroll.

This Sunday, September 20 at 5:30 PM, join us for the closing-day public talk for Slow Burn, Alex Ehmer’s solo exhibition at Lista Studios in Brooklyn.

Alex Ehmer will be joined by artists Martin Miller and Alice Barreras in a conversation moderated by Meghan Smith.

The discussion will move between artistic practice, community, art education, and the different local ecosystems that shape how artists build and sustain their work over time.

Meghan Smith is an independent curator, writer, and arts worker based in Brooklyn. Martin Miller is a sculptor whose practice developed through SFAI and Hunter College. Alice Barreras is a painter and member of the Uncool cohort with roots in the Bay Area arts community.

Public Talk
Sunday, September 20
5:30 PM

Industry City Building #4, 6th floor, Lista Studios, Suite B620, Entrance on 34, 35th street, 11232, Brooklyn, NY

The talk also marks the final day of Slow Burn, on view September 9–20. by @waxxplay

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This Sunday, September 20, at 5:30 PM, join us for the closing-day public talk for Slow Burn, Alex Ehmer’s solo exhibition at Lista Studios in Brooklyn.

Alex Ehmer will be joined by artists Martin Miller and Alice Barreras in a conversation moderated by Meghan Smith.

The discussion will move between artistic practice, community, art education, and the different local ecosystems that shape how artists build and sustain their work over time.

Meghan Smith is an independent curator, writer, and arts worker based in Brooklyn. Martin Miller is a sculptor whose practice developed through SFAI and Hunter College. Alice Barreras is a painter and member of the Uncool cohort with roots in the Bay Area arts community.

Public Talk
Sunday, September 20
5:30 PM

Slow Burn
Alex Ehmer
September 9–20, 2026

Lista Studios
Industry City Building #4
6th floor, Suite B620
Entrance on 34, 35th street
11232 Brooklyn, NY

Learn more through the link in bio.

Installation photography by Garrett Carroll.

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@alicejeanclaricebarreras
@uncool_artist
@lista_studios
@artsy by @waxxplay

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Slow Burn by Alex Ehmer is now on view at Lista Studios in Brooklyn through September 20.

Ehmer was selected through Uncool Gallery’s Solo Show Open Call, an ongoing program supporting artists through a solo exhibition in NYC.

Working across sculpture, installation, and photographic transfer, Ehmer brings together works from the ongoing Candles series, where beeswax becomes a material for thinking through memory, care, bodily vulnerability, ritual, and transformation.

Soft, responsive, and continuously capable of change, wax holds traces of touch, pressure, heat, and time. Across the exhibition, these material processes move between intimacy and exposure, preservation and disappearance.

Public Reception
Wednesday, September 16
6–8 PM

Public Talk
Sunday, September 20
5:30 PM
Alex Ehmer in conversation, moderated by Meghan Smith, with invited guest artists.

Slow Burn
September 9–20, 2026
Visits by appointment

Lista Studios
Industry City, Building 4, 6th Floor, B620
68 35th Street, Brooklyn

Book a visit and learn more at uncoolgallery.com or via the link in bio.

Installation photography by Garrett Carroll.

@waxxplay
@uncool_artist
@lista_studios
@artsy

#UncoolGallery_NowOnView #SlowBurn #AlexEhmer by @waxxplay

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“Slow Burn” public reception is next week September 16 from 6–8 PM with @uncoolgallery.

“Slow Burn” brings together works from Alex Ehmer’s ongoing Candles series where wax becomes a material for thinking about the body care experiences within medical systems. Through accumulation melting erosion residue the series looks at how the body changes over time how it requires tending.

“My Mommy Made These”, 2026 puts documentation of intestines alongside distorted images of a Christmas dinner. The work considers the relationship between the internal body meat consumption. Something private internal becomes visible reproduced available for consumption as an image. The absent referent comes into play through the separation of the intestine from the body it belongs to much like meat is separated from the animal it once was. Both subjects were made by a mother literally figuratively: a body made through familial lineage a meal made for consumption. This creates a cycle of creation inheritance documentation consumption questioning where bodily autonomy begins within what is inherited.

You can purchase via the gallery or @artsy .

#art #artwork #photography #sexualpoliticsofmeat #wax by @waxxplay

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Installation view from “Grad Lab,” Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, 2026.

EXHIBITIONS:

NEW YORK

September 9
“Slow Burn” at @lista_studios with @uncoolgallery. The exhibition is available to view by appointment. Reception: September 16, 6–8 PM. Artist talk with select artists, moderated by @meghan_zzz, on September 20.

SAN FRANCISCO

October 16
“2026 Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Exhibition” at @somarts. Preview and opening reception, 7–9 PM. Please RSVP through their website if interested.

October 17
Opening reception with @uppermarketgallery, 6–9 PM. More details to come soon. taken in Lower East Side(L.E.S.) by @waxxplay

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Slow Burn
A solo exhibition by Alex Ehmer

Opens tomorrow, September 9, at Lista Studios in Brooklyn.

The exhibition will be on view through September 20 and is open for visits by appointment throughout its run.

Public Reception
September 16, 6–8 PM

Public Talk
September 20, 5:30 PM

Lista Studios
Industry City, Building 4, 6th Floor, B620
68 35th Street, Brooklyn

Book a visit and learn more through the link in bio.

@waxxplay
@uncool_artist
@lista_studios by @waxxplay

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