L.L. Contemporary is pleased to announce its participation in NADA New York 2026, taking place May 13–17 at The Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea, marking the gallery’s first presentation in the United States. In the Galleries section, the gallery will present a focused solo booth by Toronto and Berlin-based artist Leif Low-Beer, featuring a curated selection of recent sculptures and drawings.

The presentation brings together works shaped by shifting relationships between form, color, and proximity, grounded in Low-Beer’s narrative-driven studio practice. “I move until stories are revealed, and then make decisions informed by those stories. Colors pinch one another, and a group of sculptures sits together until they become lazy or lusty or envious. The subtle movement from conversation to conversation, from personality to personality, is discovered in the transition between shapes and forms.”

Low-Beer’s work explores a muted in-between, between the known and the unknown, the sayable and the unsayable, the flat and the dimensional. Small compositions pull against the order of a larger environment, not fully part of it, yet not entirely apart, bearing the marks of their making while remaining open-ended and ambiguous. Often beginning with a single object, the works expand outward to incorporate fragments and discarded materials from the artist’s environment. Once removed from their original context, these elements become marks that structure possible narratives. “Throughout the process, I try to keep my movements spontaneous, maintaining a sense of openness and improvisation while staying within a larger set of rules and structures.”

Leif Low-Beer currently lives and works in Toronto and Berlin (and misses NYC, where he spent the last 20 years). His sculptures, drawings, and installations have been shown at galleries in the United States and Canada, including solo shows at Clint Roenisch in Toronto, Wild Project and Beginnings Gallery in New York, Okay Mountain in Austin, Buffalo Arts Center in Buffalo, and ADA Gallery in Virginia. He has presented large-scale installations at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, Space 1026 in Philadelphia, and most recently at Art Toronto.