Cafe Society

Alli Conrad

September 14 – October 12, 2024

Installation Views

Cafe Society. Installation view, Steve Turner, 2024

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Works

Alli Conrad. <em>Café de la Paix</em>, 2024. Oil on canvas, 24 x 40 inches (61 x 101.6 cm)

Alli Conrad. <em>Caffè Florian</em>, 2024. Oil on canvas, 22 x 40 inches (55.9 x 101.6 cm)

Alli Conrad. <em>Piazza San Marco</em>, 2024. Oil on canvas, 20 x 36 inches (50.8 x 91.4 cm)

Alli Conrad. <em>Caffè Quadri</em>, 2024. Oil on canvas, 18 x 36 inches (45.7 x 91.4 cm)

Alli Conrad. Café de la Paix, 2024. Oil on canvas, 24 x 40 inches (61 x 101.6 cm)

Alli Conrad. Caffè Florian, 2024. Oil on canvas, 22 x 40 inches (55.9 x 101.6 cm)

Alli Conrad. Piazza San Marco, 2024. Oil on canvas, 20 x 36 inches (50.8 x 91.4 cm)

Alli Conrad. Caffè Quadri, 2024. Oil on canvas, 18 x 36 inches (45.7 x 91.4 cm)

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Steve Turner is pleased to present Cafe Society, a solo exhibition featuring new paintings by Los Angeles-based Alli Conrad that nostalgically depict vintage table settings and elegantly dressed diners underneath an afternoon blue sky. Conrad is inspired by the simple pleasure of dining outdoors at a sidewalk cafe and aims to highlight the simplicity, sophistication and importance of the bygone cafe, a place where writers, poets, artists, actors and intellectuals once gathered to spawn great ideas.

Alli Conrad (b. 1995, Raleigh, North Carolina) is a Chinese-American artist who has had solo exhibitions at BOZO Mag Gallery, Los Angeles (2024); Août Gallery, Beirut (2023) and also has had work included in group exhibitions at WOAW Gallery, Singapore (2024), Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles (2024) and Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles (2023). This is her first exhibition at Steve Turner.

Born 1995, Raleigh, North Carolina
Lives and works in Los Angeles

Solo Exhibitions
2024
Cafe Society, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
The Four Loves, BOZO Mag Gallery, Los Angeles

2023
Altar Boy! Août Gallery, Beirut, Lebanons

Group Exhibitions
2024
Gentle Glow, Mint Gallery, Munich
7th Annual Bozo Family Hoedown, BozoMag Gallery, Los Angeles
As Friends and Partners v2, WOAW Gallery, Singapore
Dreams and Reflection, Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles

2023
Estampa Art Fair, Madrid (with Galería Yusto/Giner) Adorned Self, Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles
Vibrant Escape, WOAW Gallery, Hong Kong
Art Central Art Fair, Hog Kong (with Vain Projects)

2022
Playa de Skid Row, Shit Art Club, Los Angeles
Impact: LA for Choice 2022, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles

2020
Colors Of Lebanon, Freddy Seikaly, Los Angeles

2019
Boiling Point, Superposition Gallery, Los Angeles

Residencies
2022
RAMA Residency, Lisbon

Bibliography
2023
Aksoy, Sera. “Alli Conrad Talks About Her Painting Identity, Multi Nationalism & Her Endless Possibilities of Narratives,” Overstandart Magazine, Feb 8

2021
Waller, Thomas. “Del Toro Footwear Teams Up With Artist Alli Conrad,” Women’s Wear Daily, May 6