Launching February 25–28, 2026, ENZO arrives in Echo Park as a new boutique art fair conceived as a counterpoint to traditional market structures. Bringing together over ten young galleries from New York’s Chinatown and Lower East Side, the fair unfolds inside a 5,000-square-foot 1920s warehouse at 1634 W Temple. Free to both galleries and visitors, ENZO emphasizes equity, experimentation, and dialogue—offering immersive installations, performance, digital media, artist talks, and site-specific projects alongside traditional booths.
Set just minutes from The Broad, MOCA, and Hauser & Wirth, and under half an hour from Felix and LACMA, ENZO positions New York’s downtown pulse squarely within Los Angeles’s Eastside creative landscape.
Below, a first look at the booths to prioritize.
Alyssa Davis Gallery: Robert Roest
Robert Roest, “Turn Around See and Screech!,” 2025. Oil on linen. Courtesy the artist and Alyssa Davis Gallery.
Alyssa Davis Gallery presents a focused selection of new oil paintings by Robert Roest, whose tightly cropped, hyper-attentive canine portraits probe the instability of perception. Working in serial groupings, Roest explores illusion, projection, and the relationship between digital image culture and painterly history. His unsettling dogs—eyes glowing, teeth bared—hover between tenderness and menace, prompting a deeper question: can we trust what we see? Roest’s practice deliberately destabilizes vision, reminding viewers that while images may remain static, our ways of seeing constantly shift.
Margot Samel: Kris Lemsalu & Sasha Brodsky
Sasha Brodsky, Detail of “Salt Throwers.” Courtesy to the artist and Margot Samel.
Margot Samel presents a compelling two-person dialogue between Kris Lemsalu and Sasha Brodsky.
Lemsalu’s multidisciplinary sculptures blur boundaries between life and art, fusing porcelain, animal forms, found materials, and theatrical installation into emotionally charged environments. Her practice merges beauty and repulsion, lightness and gravity, drawing from both folklore and contemporary anxieties.
In contrast, Brodsky maps the psychological atmosphere of contemporary cities through layered pastel compositions that feel like half-remembered urban dreams. His figures dissolve into scaffolding and storefronts, suspended between presence and disappearance. Together, the pairing creates a dynamic exchange between mythic corporeality and urban introspection.
ILY2: mars ibarreche
mars ibarreche, “Solitude,” 2023. Collage. Courtesy to the artist and ILY2.
mars ibarreche, “Strange Life,” 2023. Collage. Courtesy to the artist and ILY2.
For ENZO 2026, ILY2 presents recent collage works by Portland-based artist mars ibarreche.
Constructed from pulp paperbacks, salvaged packaging, and ephemera, the collages function as “temporary / accidental poems,” with hand-cut typography hovering between declaration and vulnerability. Drawing on a lineage of queer collage practices—from Claude Cahun to punk zines—ibarreche treats fragmentation as generative agency. In an era defined by disposability and image overload, these tactile works emphasize care, reinvention, and embodied time, their creased surfaces bearing the marks of lived circulation.
Galeria Wschód: Radek Szlaga
Radek Szlaga, Untitled, 2026. Oil, pencil on canvas, linen, discarded textiles. Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and Galeria Wschód.
Galeria Wschód presents new paintings by Los Angeles–based Polish artist Radek Szlaga.
Inspired by Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain—the first book Szlaga read after relocating to L.A.—the presentation centers on time’s elusiveness and suspension. Large-scale, multi-layered canvases and drawings reflect both Los Angeles’s microcosmic isolation and the artist’s ongoing tension between gravity and levity. Beneath their seemingly naïve surfaces lies a charged interplay of memory, immediacy, and critique of post-capitalist Western existence.
Laurel Gitlen: Peggy Chiang & Sam Linguist
Peggy Chiang, “Souvenir (Dammam No. 7),” 2025. Steel, Bitumen paint, wax candle, acrylic plexiglass, motor oil, glass light cover, cast iron scale, chain, hardware. Courtesy the artist and Laurel Gitlen.
Laurel Gitlen presents works by Peggy Chiang and Sam Linguist.
Chiang’s suspended steel saddle Throttle and cast shirt-collar constellations destabilize Western iconographies of power and masculinity. Floating, tipping, and tethered, her sculptures interrogate speed, productivity, and myth-making in a 24/7 economy.
Sam Linguist, meanwhile, approaches painting as a climate-era artifact. His ceramic wall works—flush-mounted like miniature, fireproof televisions—feature trompe l’oeil twigs and constellations calcifying outward, evoking Southwestern decay and existential absurdism.
SARA’S
Tashi Fay, “Will I be with you tonight in paradise?,” 2023. Oil on panel. 6 x 12 inches. Courtesy the artist and SARA’S, New York.
Founded in 2023, SARA’S has quickly built a reputation for pairing commercial exhibitions with discursive programming—film screenings, performances, panel conversations, and artist talks.
Described as “a traditional commercial space with non-traditional programming,” the New York gallery emphasizes multidisciplinary practices and cultural relevance. Its presence at ENZO extends that ethos westward, foregrounding dialogue as much as object.
Silke Lindner
Tommy Xie, “Grief”, 2026. Oil on canvas. 19.7 x 23.6 inches | 50 x 60 cm. Courtesy the artist and Silke Linder, New York.
Opened in Tribeca in 2022, Silke Lindner brings an international roster of emerging artists working across sculpture, painting, and installation. With recent U.S. solo debuts for artists from London, Mexico City, and Vienna, the gallery’s program reflects ENZO’s cross-border ambitions—an expanding network between cities, scenes, and sensibilities.
BANK
Tim Crowley, Untitled, 2024. Oil on canvas. 160 x 120 cm, 63 x 47 1/4 inches. Courtesy the artist and BANK.
Tim Crowley, Untitled, 2024. Oil on canvas. 160 x 120 cm, 63 x 47 1/4 inches. Courtesy the artist and BANK.
Founded in Shanghai in 2013 and now operating nomadically in New York, BANK functions as a cultural conduit between China and the West. Its ENZO presentation continues that transnational dialogue, reinforcing the fair’s broader ambition: not simply to import a scene, but to activate exchange between creative communities.
Programming Beyond the Booth
Sam Linguist, “summer reading in Wyoming,” 2025. Underglazed stoneware. Courtesy the artist and Laurel Gitlen.
Conceived as a vibrant counterpoint to traditional fairs, ENZO integrates immersive installations, performance art, digital media, artist talks, and other discursive experiences throughout the warehouse’s open floorplan.
The fair’s street-level layout encourages fluid movement and direct engagement, underscoring its collaborative ethos. As Founding Director R Parmar notes,”ENZO was developed in close conversation with participating galleries, grounded in equity and designed to grow.
Practical Info ENZO Art Fair Los Angeles
Kris Lemsalu, “Booty Call 911,” 2024. Courtesy to the artist and Margot Samel.
Kris Lemsalu, “Booty Call 911,” 2024. Courtesy to the artist and Margot Samel.
Location: 1634 W Temple, Los Angeles
Dates: February 25–28, 2026
Public Hours: 2–8PM daily
Free admission (RSVP required)
enzolosangeles.com
VIP / Press Preview:
February 25, 2–8PM
Located one block from Echo Park Lake and minutes from The Broad, MOCA, and Hauser & Wirth.
