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Superposition Gallery Socially conscious approach to contemporary art with a focus on borrowed space.

04/17/2026

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— “A new brass sculptural work Metaferia created for EXPO, Crown (Makeda) (2026), is included in the space and serves t...
04/14/2026

— “A new brass sculptural work Metaferia created for EXPO, Crown (Makeda) (2026), is included in the space and serves to extend the logics of mixed-media collage Headdress series (2021) from a few years back in which activists and other notable Black women are adorned with crowns created from archival material depicting Black history, specifically the history of Black women and femmes. The word makeda here is Ethiopian in origin and said to be the birth name of the Queen of Sheba, a non-Israelite woman in the Hebrew Bible who sought knowledge for its own value. Upon the crown are etchings of smiling Black children, along with what could be the outlines of barrier-breaking politician Shirley Chisholm, besides the words “a woman for president.” Metaferia’s work is a potent reminder in this political moment of the power of archives, memory, and history in safeguarding the self and the collective. History, all of it, needs to be collected, raised, and remembered.” — Annette LePique

— “This year’s slimmer, more curated edition attracted major museum attention, reasserting the fair’s status as the Midwest’s most vital art platform… Equally successful in Focus was Superposition’s presentation of Helina Metaferia’s recent work. The booth featured hand-cut mixed media collages, a sculptural brass crown with etching, a ceremonial statt in wood and brass and a single-channel video documenting a live performance, all situated within the artist’s ongoing investigation of diasporic identity and ancestral heritage at the intersection of archival research, embodied ritual and political memory. An institution acquired one of the new brass sculptures, Crown (Makeda), priced at $20,500, while another sculpture, Staff (Betiri), priced at $18,500, was placed in a private collection.” — Elisa Carollo

04/09/2026

Helina Metaferia walks us through her solo presentation in the Focus section of



Directed by Luis Corzo, courtesy of Superposition Gallery

VIP Opens Today!Superposition Gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition by Helina Metaferia in the Focus Section of...
04/09/2026

VIP Opens Today!

Superposition Gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition by Helina Metaferia in the Focus Section of EXPO Chicago. The presentation brings together mixed media collages, new sculptural works, and a single-channel video, affirming Metaferia’s position among the most vital artists working at the intersection of archival research, embodied ritual, and political memory.

Navy Pier, Chicago
FOCUS Section | Booth 121
April 9–12, 2026

Image by Luis Corzo, courtesy of Superposition Gallery

04/06/2026

In anticipation of , we are proud to share a first look at the trailer for Our Songs: By Way of Revolution. Join us at Chicago on April 11th at 8pm for a special screening as part of the official EXPO Chicago program, followed by an intimate conversation between Helina Metaferia and curator Essence Harden

This moving film is a work in progress that follows Helina Metaferia, the artist of our solo booth at the fair, as she navigates a year of workshops and liberation movements. The documentary captures the vital, community-centered process behind her signature collages, which celebrate the women leading these movements today.

Presented by , the film is directed by and produced by .kl of —a visionary Bay Area film team led by women of color.

Superposition Gallery is honored to exhibit a solo presentation by Helina Metaferia for the FOCUS section at Metaferia...
03/31/2026

Superposition Gallery is honored to exhibit a solo presentation by Helina Metaferia for the FOCUS section at

Metaferia’s By Way of Revolution series transforms the labor of activism into an iconography of power. In these 30” x 40” hand-assembled collages, Headdress 77 and Headdress 78 (2025), workshop participants are crowned with layered histories of resistance.

The subjects featured in these works are director Alex Bledsoe and producer Jalena Keane-Lee .kl. Beyond their roles as the living archives within these frames, they are also the visionaries behind Our Songs: By Way of Revolution, a new short-doc film exploring Metaferia’s practice, which we are debuting during the fair at Soho House Chicago.

The perceived physical weight of these headdresses reflects the emotional and political weight of the archives Metaferia meticulously mines to honor the lineage of her subjects. By merging public records of Civil Rights movements with the models’ private ancestral snapshots, Metaferia collapses the distance between the heroic past and the individual’s present reality.

Following their recent international debut at the Fondazione Merz museum in Turin, Italy, we are thrilled to bring these intricate, living archives to Navy Pier to explore the enduring, lived experience of social change.

đź“Ť Navy Pier, Chicago
FOCUS Section | Booth 121
April 9 – 12, 2026

The Wayfinder, 2026Acrylic on canvas over panel20 x 16 inches50.80 x 40.64 cmFrom Los Angeles 🔥
03/20/2026


The Wayfinder, 2026
Acrylic on canvas over panel
20 x 16 inches
50.80 x 40.64 cm

From Los Angeles 🔥

The front page of .official ! Cheers to our cover girl 🌸At Frieze Los Angeles, Greg Ito’s bright baggage carries hopeSt...
03/05/2026

The front page of .official !

Cheers to our cover girl 🌸

At Frieze Los Angeles, Greg Ito’s bright baggage carries hope

Stacks of neon orange suitcases, open trunks with mirrored insides and brightly hued paintings beckon from Superposition Gallery’s stand at Frieze Los Angeles—among the most eye-catching in the fair’s Focus section. The installation, by the local artist Greg Ito, is titled A Cautionary Tale. Ito says he would like visitors to read their own cautionary tale into the work. “Everybody has an uncertainty or a trouble in their life that they’re facing,” he tells The Art Newspaper. “And I feel like everybody has some raised awareness of the current state of things in the world and what their place in it is.”

cc Scarlet Cheng ✍🏽

We are so grateful to everyone’s response to our Frieze Focus presentation with Thank you for awarding us with the top...
03/03/2026

We are so grateful to everyone’s response to our Frieze Focus presentation with

Thank you for awarding us with the top best booth ! đź’«

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For Frieze Los Angeles 2026, Superposition presents A Cautionary Tale, a solo booth of new work by Greg Ito in the Focus...
02/27/2026

For Frieze Los Angeles 2026, Superposition presents A Cautionary Tale, a solo booth of new work by Greg Ito in the Focus Section curated by Essence Harden. He has created an entirely new body of work specifically for Superposition’s Focus presentation, including a suitcase series and installation he has never shown before.

Rooted in histories of migration, memory, and inheritance, this new body of work marks a meaningful expansion in scale and material presence. As Angelenos shaped by layered cultures and contradictions, Greg and Storm share a belief that art and care are inseparable — a sensibility that quietly anchors this presentation. This installation deepens that ethos through the inclusion of personal artifacts and inherited objects: family heirlooms and collected items preserved by his mother and grandfather, alongside contributions from his wife and daughter, and even stones from his own childhood rock collection. These elements function not as relics, but as carriers of care — evidence of how memory is held, protected, and passed forward across generations. In this way, the work becomes less an archive of the past than a living architecture of belonging.

We see this as a pivotal moment in Ito’s practice as it continues to gain significant institutional recognition. Concurrently, we debuted a public project with Orange Barrel Media on Sunset Boulevard, on view throughout the month at the Rainbow/Roxy. Highly anticipated presentations include USC Pacific Asia Museum (Los Angeles) and the Frye Art Museum (Seattle), alongside a forthcoming residency in Seoul and a public commission with ICA San Diego to be announced during Frieze and realized in the coming year. Recent solo projects include Art Production Fund at Rockefeller Center in New York and the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center in Los Angeles.

Please visit us at Frieze Focus Booth F2, Santa Monica Airport from February 26 – March 1, 2026.

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