Felix Los Angeles 2026

Thresholds of Perception

Noel De Lesseps
Brianna Lance
Dennis Miranda
Oliver Clegg

Organized by Gaia Matisse

February 25 - March 1, 2025
The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Los Angeles

Thresholds of Perception brings together four contemporary artists whose practices engage moments of transition, instability, and quiet tension. Featuring works by Noel De Lesseps, Brianna Lance, Oliver Clegg, Dennis Miranda. Additional works from the Entrance program by Pat McCarthy, Jack Shannon, Ethan Means, Lizzy Gabay, JIM JOE, and Morleigh Steinberg.⁠

The exhibition examines how perception is shaped through spaces and forms that resist resolution. Across painting and sculpture, the works do not describe fixed places or linear narratives. Instead, they construct environments that hover between interior and exterior, memory and presence, figuration and abstraction. De Lesseps’ atmospheric landscapes establish a sense of temporal suspension, evoking spaces that feel remembered rather than observed. Lance introduces symbolic and intuitive imagery, where figures and signs function as emotional markers rather than narrative agents. Clegg’s destabilized interiors collapse the boundary between shelter and exposure, allowing water and light to overtake domestic space. Miranda’s materially charged paintings ground the exhibition through density and layered surfaces that suggest processes of accumulation, erosion, and regeneration.

Together, the works propose perception as an active, negotiated experience rather than a fixed state. Meaning arises not through clarity or conclusion, but through attention to thresholds—those moments where structures hold just long enough to reveal their vulnerability. The exhibition invites viewers to remain within these spaces of uncertainty, where sensation, material, and memory intersect.

Gaia Matisse (B. 1993, France) is a curator and advisor, moving fluidly between historical art, and contemporary discourse. Matisse has organized exhibitions in Paris, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and New York. Her perspective reflects an intuitive understanding of how art lives beyond institutions - in people, spaces, and cultural exchange. Matisse also represents her father's estate, the renowned French Pop Artist, Alain Jacquet.

Brianna Lance (b. 1982, San Jose, California) lives and works in New York City. A self-described "hippie at heart," Lance creates visionary watercolor and oil paintings rooted in meditation and spiritual exploration. Her work traverses the symbolic and esoteric, depicting mandalas, ouroboros serpents, and surreal spirals of swan heads and orchids—each a document of her subconscious journey.

Lance's practice is defined by the interplay between spontaneous expression and obsessive detail. Working from loose, intuitive bases, she builds intricate layers through repetitive mark-making that induces meditative states, inviting viewers to linger in moments of contemplation. Before dedicating herself fully to painting, Lance worked as a fashion designer, serving as head designer for Reformation (2010-2015) and founding the menswear line Basic Rights.

Her work has been featured in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and at Miami Art Week. Solo exhibitions include Relentless Suggestions at Entrance (2025), Needs at Gobi Fine Art/V Files (2023) and Spirit Gardens at Bhalla Art Advisory (2021). Recent collaborations include The Edition Hotels, Ciao Lucia, and The Frankie Shop.

Oliver Clegg (b. 1980, Guildford, UK.)lives and works in Santa Teresa, Costa Rica, He received his BFA from Bristol University in Bristol, United Kingdom, and a MFA from the City and Guilds of London Art School in London,United Kingdom.

Solo and group exhibitions include ”Don’t just do something, stand there” at The Journal Gallery in New York, New York (2024); “The Last Great Painting" at Martos Gallery in New York, New York (2024); “Sometimes, Forever” at MAMOTH Contemporary in London, United Kingdom (2024); "We Cat" at Tennis Elbow at The Journal Gallery in New York, New York (2021); "Good Pictures" at Jeffrey Deitch in New York, New York (2020); “More or Less” at Sadie Coles HQ in London, United Kingdom (2018); “Euclid's Porsche" at Rental Gallery in New York, New York (2018); “Animals” at the Charles Riva Collection in Belgium (2017); “Everything Should be OK" at Lawrie Shabibi in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (2016); “Life is a gassssss” at Erin Cluley Gallery, Dallas (2016); Gotika at Palazzo Franchetti, 56th Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy (2015); “Nightfall” at the Modem Museum in Debrecen, Hungary (2012); “The Art of Chess” at the Reykjavík Art Museum in Reykjavík, Iceland 2010); the Busan Biennale in Busan, South Korea (2010); “Something More, Something Less” at the David Roberts Art Foundation in London, United Kingdom (2008); and “Oliver Clegg: A Knight’s Move” at the Freud Museum in London, United Kingdom 2008).

Work by Clegg is held in various public collections including the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas; the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Ireland; UBS; the Zabludowicz Collection; The Bunker Art Space in Miami, Florida; The Warehouse Dallas Art Foundation in Dallas, Texas; the Walt Disney Co. Collection; The Deutsche Bank Collection; and the Start Museum in Shanghai, China.

Noel de Lesseps (b. 1996, Southampton, NY) is a painter and multimedia artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Self-taught, de Lesseps has maintained a dedicated studio practice since 2017. Working intuitively with improvisation, he explores the liminal space between abstraction and figuration, creating works that record a meeting of matter and mind. His practice reflects ongoing interests in philosophical, emotional, and metaphysical experience, treating the canvas as a site where the physical act of painting intersects with broader questions of consciousness and being. De Lesseps has presented solo exhibitions at Picture Theory, New York, NY (2023), The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY (2023), The Ranch, Montauk, NY (2022), and Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY (2022). His work has been included in group exhibitions at Stone/Age. The Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2025), Harpers, New York, NY (2024), Katia David Rosenthal Gallery, Miami, FL (2024), Kaleidoscope, Brooklyn, NY (2024), and Alexander DiJulio, New York, NY (2023), among others. He has participated in fair presentations with Entrance at Felix Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA (2025) and NY4LA (2025), as well as SPRINGBREAK Art Fair, New York, NY (2020). In Fall 2025, his work was included in Stone/Age.The Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. De Lesseps will present a solo exhibition at Entrance in early 2026.

Dennis Miranda Zamorano (b. 1993, Mexico City) is a self-taught artist who lives and works in Mexico City.The themes, subjects, and compositional logic of his practice grow from El Tianguis, the open-air market tradition his family has taken part in for generations. For Zamorano, the market’s dynamism and ephemerality—its chance encounters, disputes, and the circulating economies of objects, aesthetics, and desires—are analogous to the act of constructing a painting.

Like the marketplace, the canvas is a site of negotiation among infinite choices. Within this arena of burgeoning impulses and amalgamated forms, his work moves fluidly between representation and image, figuration and abstraction, language and meaning. His process is intensely physical: he accumulates dozens of layers of paint—house paint, oil, acrylic, and watercolor—then excavates pictorial elements through scratching, sanding, chiseling, scoring, power washing, chemical dissolution, and exposure to natural outdoor elements, often leaving multiple canvases outside while working across them simultaneously. Oneiric, tactile, and intensely colorful, the resulting paintings oscillate between the thing-in-itself (an encounter, object, or memory) and its representation, reflecting on the fragmented, fragile nature of the human condition.

Zamorano’s first institutional solo exhibition opens at Château La Coste (Aix-en-Provence, France) in October 2025, coinciding with Art Basel Paris week. Selected exhibitions include: ‘Abstraction (Re)creation - 20 Under 40’, X Museum (Beijing, CN, 2024, group; traveled from Consortium Museum, FR); ‘Chilangxs’, Marguo (Paris, FR, 2025, group); ‘Reunion’, Aye Project Space (Hong Kong, 2025, group); ‘Abstraction (Re)creation - 20 Under 40’, Consortium Museum (Dijon, FR, 2024, group); ‘Falling Upwards’, Galerie Marguo (Paris, FR, 2023, solo); ‘Ongoing Portraits, Chapter I’, Galería Furiosa (Mexico City, MX, 2021, solo) and ‘Ongoing Portraits, Chapter II’, IMAGINE GALLERY (San Miguel de Allende, MX, 2021, solo); ‘Los Relatos del Rostro’, AppArt (Paris, 2018, solo); ‘LANDSCAPE’, The Tiny Box Project (San Miguel de Allende, MX, 2017, solo); ‘For Here or to Go’, WNDO Space (Los Angeles, CA, 2017, solo); ‘El Límite de la Risa’, IMAGINE GALLERY (San Miguel de Allende, MX, 2016, solo); and ‘My American Experience’, WNDO Space (Los Angeles, CA, 2014, solo).

His work is held in collections across the United States, Europe, and Asia, including CC Art Foundation, Shanghai, and trustees of major institutions like The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.

Jack Shannon (b. 1992 New York, NY), is an artist based in New York City. In 2017 he co-founded Entrance with his brother Louis before returning to his own art practice. Shannon lead a collaborative printmaking residency in Entrance’s studio, focusing on making monotypes with his artist peers. Shannon subsequently curated Monotypes With Friends in 2018 and Two Stories in 2019 at Entrance, pairing prints produced by the artists in the residency alongside their own original works, in painting, sculpture, and photography. Forest Cosmos was Shannon’s debut solo show at Entrance.

Pat McCarthy (b. 1987) lives and works between Brooklyn and Andes, New York. McCarthy works primarily in sculpture, zines, and video, as well as staging social happenings that often include preparing and serving food. His work deliberately traverses many crafts and disciplines to explore methods of storytelling, weaving together art-making, agriculture, and daily life into a singular practice. McCarthy’s sculptural work often takes the form of miniature recreations rendered in English porcelain and other found materials. His ceramic tractors include faithful reproduction of his 1999 John Deere 345 mower to golden tractors. He has also created small-scale versions of iconic vehicles from cinema, including the Rosebud sled, a snow cat from The Shining and the ACME steam roller from Who Framed Roger Rabbit. A ceramic CheeseBike sculpture was featured in My Amazing Friends at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery in 2025, memorializing the street performance that once animated the artist’s engagement with public space and food culture. McCarthy’s work has been presented in institutional exhibitions at Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (2023); Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, NY (2022); Manifesta 13, Marseille, FR (2020); MoMA PS1, New York, NY (2018); Middelheim Sculpture Museum, Antwerp, BE (2017); Aperture Foundation, New York, NY (2016); Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Sud, Marseille (2016); and MoMA, New York, NY (2015). His work is in the collections of MoMA, New York, NY; Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain, Marseille, FR; Museo Jumex, Mexico City, MX; McEvoy Foundation, San Francisco; and the collection of Agnès B, Paris, FR. McCarthy is a contributor to the collectives Satan Ceramics and 8 Ball Community. He has worked with Entrance since his first solo with the gallery in 2019, Nik Nak’s City Cart, through his most recent solo exhibition Vessels of Experience in May 2025, where his farm-made wines were served from handmade porcelain jugs included as works in the show.

Lizzy Gabay (b. 1993) lives and works in New York, NY. She received a BA in Fine Art from the Roski School of Art at the University of Southern California and a MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of Art at Bard College. Central to her practice is a sense of discovery, as she deftly navigates the spectrum of legibility, creating compositions where flatness, texture, and a sense of movement converge. Such elements lead the viewer through a landscape of emotional resonance, where meaning is often discovered in the periphery. Recent solo exhibitions include Winter Street Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA (2024) and Entrance, New York, NY (2023)

JIM JOE is a living artist working in New York City. JIM JOE is a chosen name under which he has worked for 15 years. His work, which originated in the form of an anonymous graffiti persona, has evolved into a diverse and conceptual art practice that incorporates but is not limited to calligraphy, identity, poetry, image-making, collaborative design, exhibitions and performance. His work has been exhibited locally and internationally in physical and digital formats in both artistic and commercial contexts. In recent years, the New York Public Library’s Picture Collection has become an extension of his process and plays a significant role in his practice overall. It is part studio, part research partner, part professor, and, along with the city itself, represents an indispensable character in the fabric of his life.

Ethan Means (B. 2001, New York City) is a painter who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Means is a graduate of The Cooper Union. Recent exhibitions and projects include his debut solo exhibition at Entrance, “Something Gardens” (2025), The White Columns Benefit Auction (2025), his work was also featured in “Yes Way,” alongside Ethan Kramer curated by Nathan Feniak at Entrance (2023).Entrance will exhibit his second solo exhibition in the fall of 2026.

Morleigh Steinberg’s artistic practice is grounded in a lifelong investigation of movement. Trained in modern dance, improvisation, and composition, she approaches each medium—photography, filmmaking, and curation—with the same choreographic attentiveness to rhythm, space, and transformation. Her visual works reflect her instinct for kinetic structure: images shift, collide, and evolve, mirroring the body’s relationship to time and environment. As a dancer and choreographer, Steinberg has toured extensively worldwide with Momix, ISO Dance, and ARCANE Collective, whose performances have appeared at the Guggenheim Museum (NYC), The Hammer Museum (LA), REDCAT (LA), and numerous venues across Europe. She has directed and shot award-winning short dance films, including the full-length documentary Height of Sky, as well as multiple short films and music videos.