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 booth by Toronto and Berlin-based artist Leif Low-Beer,  featuring a curated selection of his recent sculptures and drawings.

The presentation is shaped by Low-Beer’s narrative-driven studio practice, in which meaning emerges through material relationships, spatial arrangement, and intuitive decision-making. Works are composed and recomposed until subtle dynamics surface, allowing form, color, and proximity to suggest shifting moods and interactions rather than fixed narratives. The booth brings together works that explore in-between states: between the known and unknown, the sayable and the unsayable, and the flat and the dimensional. Individual pieces retain a sense of autonomy while remaining in tension with the overall spatial composition, emphasizing the relationship between independence and cohesion. Many works begin with a single object and expand outward, incorporating fragments and discarded materials from the artist’s immediate environment. Once removed from their original context, these elements function as marks that structure open-ended narratives. Installed as a cohesive field, the presentation invites viewers to move between works and experience meaning as something provisional, unfolding through proximity, rhythm, and transition rather than declaration.

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.