Author: The Auction Collective
Published: 12 Nov 2024
Top 5 Artists | Elisabeth Johs
A spotlight on the top 5 next gen artists from those that know. This week's Top 5 comes from founder and director of JO-HS Gallery, Elisabeth Johs.
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Elisabeth Johs is the founder and director of JO-HS Gallery, a contemporary gallery dedicated to emerging and mid-career artists.
Based in Mexico City, the gallery is known for its focused exhibitions and participation in international art fairs like Zona Maco. With a commitment to fostering new talent, Elisabeth has positioned JO-HS Gallery as a key player in the global art scene, balancing innovation with support for artists' growth. JO-HS recently opened a new space in New York aiming to show Latin American talent.
Header Image: Installation by Rodrigo Red Sandoval
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Chavis Mármol
Image Credits (left to right)
Portrait of the Artist. Image from JO-HS Gallery Instagram.
Chavis Mármol, LUCHA POR LA EXISTENCIA, Aluminium Sculpture and 3D Printing, 60cm x 40cm x 35cm. Image from JO-HS Gallery Instagram.
Chavis Mármol (1982, Apan, Hidalgo) studied Visual Art at the the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, later earning a Master’s in Visual Arts at Universidad Autónoma de México. His artworks will be exhibited at NADA Projects in December 2024.
With little more than 10 years of experience, Mármol has participated in national and international exhibitions, and has received grants and prizes. In his workshop, he employs new technical approaches to a wide range of materials, creating complex and fun works of art that critique contemporary social, political, and economic contexts. Beyond his work as a painter, sculptor, or cartoonist, Mármol considers himself to be a conceptual artist, preparing cocktails of ideas which allow him to express his opinion regarding a complex and often meaningless present.
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Melissa Ríos
Image Credits (left to right)
Portrait of the Artist. Image from JO-HS Gallery Instagram.
Melissa Ríos, En sí mismas, Oil on canvas, 44 1/2 x 56 1/4 in, 2024. Image from Artist’s Instagram.
Based in Mexico City, Melissa Ríos works primarily in painting and drawing. Mining the fertile ground between figuration and abstraction, Ríos seeks to expand understandings of reality and its representation. She recently had a solo exhibition at JO-HS Gallery in New York, and completed the Mack Art Foundation Residency this summer.
Ríos paints surreal, dream-like visions. Figures, objects, and abstracts overlap and aggregate like veils mediating between realms of experience. Full of emotional charge and presence, the paintings imagine the spaces between the physical and metaphysical, between imagination and experience.
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Rodrigo Red Sandoval
Rodrigo Red Sandoval, Installation of Towards a Lower Sky, dimensions variable, crashed car parts, copper pipes, gas, metal, wood, bronze, concrete, ceramic, weeds, pigeon feathers, robotic lights, jesmonite, screen bracket, lighter, beer cans, digital prints, 2023. Image from Artist’s Website.
Rodrigo Red Sandoval is an alumnus of the Jan van Eyck Academie, The Netherlands (2018). He earned a Master of Fine Arts at The Glasgow School of Art, United Kingdom (2016), and a BA in Philosophy at UNAM, Mexico (2011).
His awards include: The Royal British Society of Sculptors Bursary Award, United Kingdom (2017 -2018), Bloomberg New Contemporaries, United Kingdom (2016), Acquisition prize, Material Art Fair, Mexico (2022).
His work has been exhibited in places like: Deli Gallery, Mexico City (2023), Jack Barrett Gallery, New York (2023), No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam (2023), guadalajara90210, Mexico City (2023), JOHS, Mexico City (2023), among others. JO-HS Gallery will be showing his work at Material Fair in Mexico City, February 2025.
Rodridgo Red Sandoval, Group Kiss street, 2023, Reinforced concrete and debris collected around New York. Image from JO-HS Gallery Instagram.
He has served on panels at the Slade School of Art, UCL, London and taught at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. He is co-founder of Mutter, a platform for contemporary art in Amsterdam.
https://www.rodrigoredsandoval.com/
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Emil Sands
Emil Sands at his solo exhibition at JO-HS Gallery, Mexico City, curated by Georgina Pounds. Images from JO-HS Gallery Instagram.
Emil Sands (UK, 1998) is a British painter currently living and working in New York. Sands had his first solo show 2023 with Tibor de Nagy in New York City, previously exhibiting in group shows across the UK - at the Crypt Gallery in London, and Mostyn gallery in Wales, most notably. Sands attended Central St. Martins for a Fine Art Painting foundation in 2017 and the University of Cambridge from 2018 until 2022, where he read Classics for his BA and studied for an MPhil in Ancient Art. In 2022, he was then awarded the Henry Fellowship to study Fine Art and Creative Writing at Yale’s School of Art and Writing School respectively.
His personal essay Struck on one Side, which focused on his experience growing up with Cerebral Palsy, was published in the March 2023 edition of The Atlantic magazine, along with his paintings. He is currently working on extending the piece into a memoir.
Emil Sands, Boys on the beach, 2024, Oil on linen, 18.0 × 14.0 inches / cm. Image from Platform Art.
His painting, Boys on the Beach, put forward by JO-HS Gallery is part of Platform Art’s October 2024 Curation.
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Rodrigo Echeverría
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Artist in studio. Image from Artist’s Instagram.
Rodrigo Echverría, What Happens when Foot Rises, 2023, Oil on canvas, 97 5/8 x 94 1/8 in. Image from JO-HS Gallery Instagram.
Rodrigo Echeverría (b. 1988, Mexico) is a self-taught painter that began painting from an early age within the context of a conservative Catholic society. After graduating from University, he saw that real learning happens outside of institutions. He opted for museums and art residencies, and the exploration of different cultures and countries. He is currently represented by JO-HS Gallery.
He has had important portrait commissions including a portrait of the second room of the Nation’s Supreme Court of Justice and his collectors encompass all levels of society.
Echeverría explains that for him, “a painting is a synthesis of the movement of color, brushstrokes and the abstract. I divide my work into two: observation painting and imagination painting. One does not exist without the other. The first is where I paint the things that are in front of me at different moments in my life, they are the location of existences; a chess game with time and space. The second is where I paint the present synthesis of my life, a will, a scroll."
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