Artists Space

Doris Guo
Matthew Langan-Peck
Isabelle Frances McGuire
Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya

May 23 – August 10, 2024

Artists Space is pleased to present an exhibition of new and recent work by Doris Guo, Matthew Langan-Peck, Isabelle Frances McGuire, and Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya.

Color image of a small pinhole projector, sitting on a pedestal and facing a wall to the left of the image. On the wall, an image of a red pearlescent ball, with a small white pearlescant ball attached on top, is projected.
Doris Guo, angst, 2023 [Color image of a small pinhole projector, sitting on a pedestal and facing a wall to the left of the image. On the wall, an image of a red pearlescent ball, with a small white pearlescant ball attached on top, is projected.]

A hulking biomorphic black sculpture, composed of car parts and a large black t-shirt smeared with pigmented dragon skin silicone, hangs from the ceiling. To the right, a small sculpture of scuffed white plastic, brown fur, and various jutting animal teeth sits on a shelf.
Doris Guo, Matthew Langan-Peck, Isabelle Frances McGuire, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya. Installation view (Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, The Lil Rat that Made it on Board the Ship, 2021; Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, Goyas lil bat from “sueño de la razón produce monstruos”, 2022), Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [A hulking biomorphic black sculpture, composed of car parts and a large black t-shirt smeared with pigmented dragon skin silicone, hangs from the ceiling. To the right, a small sculpture of scuffed white plastic, brown fur, and various jutting animal teeth sits on a shelf.]
A large black biomorphic sculpture hangs in the foreground. In the distance, various biomorphic sculptures hang from the ceiling, sit on pedestals, or hang from the walls, receding deeper into the gallery. Three large pink banners emblazoned with silver stars hang from the ceiling in the background.
Doris Guo, Matthew Langan-Peck, Isabelle Frances McGuire, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [A large black biomorphic sculpture hangs in the foreground. In the distance, various biomorphic sculptures hang from the ceiling, sit on pedestals, or hang from the walls, receding deeper into the gallery. Three large pink banners emblazoned with silver stars hang from the ceiling in the background.]
A receding row of columns lines our view into the far gallery space. In the foreground, several of Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya
Doris Guo, Matthew Langan-Peck, Isabelle Frances McGuire, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [A receding row of columns lines our view into the far gallery space. In the foreground, several of Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya's biomorphic sculptures are displayed on walls, resting on a pedestal, or hanging from the ceiling. In the distance, two of Matthew Langan-Peck's monumental painted toy box sculptures sit on the gallery floor; a set of headphones hangs on the side of each box. In the background, Isabelle Frances McGuire's three large pink banners emblazoned with silver stars hang from ceiling to floor.]
Color image of a gallery space with three large white biomorphic sculptures by Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya hanging from the ceiling throughout. The sculptures are composed of discarded car parts, pigmented silicone, animal horns, clothes, and various other found materials.
Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, Gloria Gloria, Balenciaga 2010 FW/RTW by Nicolas Ghesquiere, and Kate Moss as a hologram for Alexander McQueen, 2022. Photo: Carter Seddon. [Color image of a gallery space with three large white biomorphic sculptures by Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya hanging from the ceiling throughout. The sculptures are composed of discarded car parts, pigmented silicone, animal horns, clothes, and various other found materials.]
A view of a gallery installed with multiple sculptures by Matthew Langan-Peck, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, and Isabelle Frances McGuire. In the center foreground sits a wooden box sculpture painted light blue, with a pair of headphones hanging from a small peg on the side facing us. Another wooden box, painted dark blue with a repeated traffic light motif, sits in the distance behind and partially occluded by the box in the foreground. To the left, a large biomorphic sculpture composed of found materials hangs from the ceiling. In the background, three large pink banners emblazoned with silver stars hang from ceiling to floor.
Doris Guo, Matthew Langan-Peck, Isabelle Frances McGuire, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [A view of a gallery installed with multiple sculptures by Matthew Langan-Peck, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, and Isabelle Frances McGuire. In the center foreground sits a wooden box sculpture painted light blue, with a pair of headphones hanging from a small peg on the side facing us. Another wooden box, painted dark blue with a repeated traffic light motif, sits in the distance behind and partially occluded by the box in the foreground. To the left, a large biomorphic sculpture composed of found materials hangs from the ceiling. In the background, three large pink banners emblazoned with silver stars hang from ceiling to floor.]
Color image of three large pink fabric banners by Isabelle Frances McGuire, each emblazoned with three silver stars, hanging from ceiling to floor. In the gallery space behind the banners, an off-white foam sculpture of a naked human form rests supine on a small white platform.
Doris Guo, Matthew Langan-Peck, Isabelle Frances McGuire, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [Color image of three large pink fabric banners by Isabelle Frances McGuire, each emblazoned with three silver stars, hanging from ceiling to floor. In the gallery space behind the banners, an off-white foam sculpture of a naked human form rests supine on a small white platform.]
A life-size off-white foam sculpture of a naked human form, in the likeness of Abraham Lincoln, rests supine on a low white platform.
Isabelle Frances McGuire, The Death of a Giant, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [A life-size off-white foam sculpture of a naked human form, in the likeness of Abraham Lincoln, rests supine on a low white platform.]
Color image of a gallery installation containing four large wooden box sculptures by Matthew Langan-Peck, three of which are slightly open and have headphones hanging from their sides. To the left, a dark blue box is painted with a repeated traffic light motif. The box in the center foreground is messily painted sky blue, with two yellow shooting stars on one side. In the background, to the right, two wooden boxes sit next to each other, one painted light yellow and the other covered in imitation gold leaf.
Doris Guo, Matthew Langan-Peck, Isabelle Frances McGuire, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [Color image of a gallery installation containing four large wooden box sculptures by Matthew Langan-Peck, three of which are slightly open and have headphones hanging from their sides. To the left, a dark blue box is painted with a repeated traffic light motif. The box in the center foreground is messily painted sky blue, with two yellow shooting stars on one side. In the background, to the right, two wooden boxes sit next to each other, one painted light yellow and the other covered in imitation gold leaf.]
Closeup view of two wooden box sculptures sitting side by side in a gallery. The box on the left is painted light yellow and has a pair of headphones hanging from its side; its lid is slightly ajar. The closed box on the right is covered completely in imitation gold leaf.
Doris Guo, Matthew Langan-Peck, Isabelle Frances McGuire, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya. Installation view (Matthew Langan-Peck, Player 3, 2024; Matthew Langan-Peck, Box 7, 2024), Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [Closeup view of two wooden box sculptures sitting side by side in a gallery. The box on the left is painted light yellow and has a pair of headphones hanging from its side; its lid is slightly ajar. The closed box on the right is covered completely in imitation gold leaf.]
Color image of the corner of a darkened gallery space with two small pinhole projector sculpture installations. The pinhole projector on the left is housed in a polka-dot patterned gift-wrapped box. On the wall, an image of a white ceramic teacup with a radial swirl pattern is projected. On the right, the projector is wrapped in white foam padding and secured with red string. On the wall, it projects an image of a square containing an golden metal hoop and pin along with four small, glittering pink and green strawberry ornaments.
Doris Guo, Matthew Langan-Peck, Isabelle Frances McGuire, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya. Installation view (Doris Guo, Bathroom Kitchen Confusion, 2023; Doris Guo, Fruit Basket, 2024), Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [Color image of the corner of a darkened gallery space with two small pinhole projector sculpture installations. The pinhole projector on the left is housed in a polka-dot patterned gift-wrapped box. On the wall, an image of a white ceramic teacup with a radial swirl pattern is projected. On the right, the projector is wrapped in white foam padding and secured with red string. On the wall, it projects an image of a square containing an golden metal hoop and pin along with four small, glittering pink and green strawberry ornaments.]
Color image of a darkened gallery space with three sculptures. On the left, a pinhole projector wrapped in foam and bound with red string sits on a pedestal. It projects an image of an ornamental golden metal pin and four small pink and green strawberries onto the left wall. A golden egg sculpture sits on the floor in the corner of the gallery. To the right, another pinhole projector inside a plaid vinyl bag with straps sits on a pedestal. On the right wall, an image of a green square with a small crenellated metal opening to the upper left, is projected.
Doris Guo, Matthew Langan-Peck, Isabelle Frances McGuire, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [Color image of a darkened gallery space with three sculptures. On the left, a pinhole projector wrapped in foam and bound with red string sits on a pedestal. It projects an image of an ornamental golden metal pin and four small pink and green strawberries onto the left wall. A golden egg sculpture sits on the floor in the corner of the gallery. To the right, another pinhole projector inside a plaid vinyl bag with straps sits on a pedestal. On the right wall, an image of a green square with a small crenellated metal opening to the upper left, is projected.]
Color image of a corner in a darkened gallery space. A large golden egg sculpture sits on the floor in the corner.
Matthew Langan-Peck, Golden Egg 1, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [Color image of a corner in a darkened gallery space. A large golden egg sculpture sits on the floor in the corner.]
Color image of the corner of a darkened gallery installation. On the left, a pinhole projector inside a plaid travel bag sits atop a pedestal. On the back wall, an image of a green square with a crenellated metal opening is projected. On the right, a pinhole projector housed within a plywood box sits on a pedestal. On the right wall, an image of a red pearlescent ball, with a small white pearlescant ball attached on top, is projected.
Doris Guo, Matthew Langan-Peck, Isabelle Frances McGuire, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya. Installation view (Doris Guo, Travel 2, 2024; Doris Guo, angst, 2023), Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [Color image of the corner of a darkened gallery installation. On the left, a pinhole projector inside a plaid travel bag sits atop a pedestal. On the back wall, an image of a green square with a crenellated metal opening is projected. On the right, a pinhole projector housed within a plywood box sits on a pedestal. On the right wall, an image of a red pearlescent ball, with a small white pearlescant ball attached on top, is projected.]
Color image of two small doorstop sculptures on the floor of the gallery space landing. The sculpture in the foreground consists of a short column of aluminum, banded with black rubber near the top. In the background sits another sculpture, a squat column of concentric stainless steel rings with a black rubber core.
Doris Guo, Matthew Langan-Peck, Isabelle Frances McGuire, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya. Installation view (Doris Guo, Doorstop 1, 2024; Doris Guo, Doorstop 2, 2024), Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [Color image of two small doorstop sculptures on the floor of the gallery space landing. The sculpture in the foreground consists of a short column of aluminum, banded with black rubber near the top. In the background sits another sculpture, a squat column of concentric stainless steel rings with a black rubber core.]

Exit Ramp 1, 2024
Red Light Problem 2, 2023
Small Clip 1, 2024

Doris Guo (b. 1992, San Francisco) currently lives and works in Oslo. She received a BFA in painting from Pratt Institute in 2014 and an MFA from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2023. Solo exhibitions include Back at Empty Gallery, Hong Kong (2023); disorientations at VI, VII, Oslo (2023); Shanghai San Francisco Richmond Seattle New York Oslo (TRACE) at Veronica, Seattle (2022–23); a presentation at inge, Plainview, NY (2022); 9PM Til I at Éclair, Berlin (2019); XO at Derosia, New York (2019); Coffee & Tea at Princess, New York (2018); and Joss at Real Fine Arts, New York (2017).

Matthew Langan-Peck (b. 1988, Cooperstown, New York) lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Au feu rouge, Edouard Montassut, Paris (2024), and an untitled exhibition at Gandt, New York (2023). Recent group exhibitions include Composition for the Left Hand, Kode, Bergen (2024); Récits de collection, MAMCO, Geneva (2023–24); Looking Back / The 13th White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York (2023); Barbe à Papa, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux (2022); In the Shadows of Tall Necessities, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (2022); La réforme de Pooky, Kunsthalle Friart, Fribourg, Switzerland (2022); and Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York (2021).

Isabelle Frances McGuire (b. 1994, Austin, Texas) lives and works in Chicago. They graduated from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago with a BFA in film, video, and new media in 2016. Select solo and two-person presentations include exhibitions at What Pipeline, Detroit (2023, with Nolan Simon); King’s Leap, New York (2023 and 2021); Scherben, Berlin (2022); Mickey, Chicago (2021); Et al., San Francisco (2020, curated by Good Weather); From the Desk of Lucy Bull, Los Angeles (2020), and Prairie, Chicago (2017). Recent group exhibitions include Multi-User Dungeon (MUD), Petzel, New York (2024, curated by Simon Denny); Descending the Staircase, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2023–24); Tell Me What You Want, Bel Ami, Los Angeles (2023); Group Exhibition, M. LeBlanc, Chicago (2023); Death Bearing, Hans Gallery, Chicago (2023); I feel like a bootlegger’s wife. Look!, Apparatus Projects, Chicago (2022); Banquet, In Lieu, Los Angeles (2020); and At the End of the Game You Will Be Forgotten, Alyssa Davis Gallery, New York (2018).

Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya (b. 1989, Parral, Mexico) is based in Mexico City. Montoya received his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2020. Solo exhibitions include James Webb and the Thestral Born without a Vertebrate, Sargent’s Daughters, New York (2022); Ex Situ Canis Latrans, Murmurs, Los Angeles (2021); and Inside the Bowels of the Hoofed Beast, Sargent’s Daughters, New York (2020). Recent group shows include La Casa Erosionada, Museo Anahuacalli, Coyoacán, Mexico (2023); We Are They, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles (2023); Durian on the Skin, Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles (2022); Outburst, Palm Springs Museum of Art, California (2022); Group Show, General Expenses, Mexico City (2022); were-:Nenetech Forms, MoCA Tucson, Arizona (2021); Her Kind, Sargent’s Daughters, New York; 100 Sculptures, Anonymous Gallery, New York (2021); and Por Vida, Company Gallery, New York (2021).

Exhibition support is provided by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Office for Contemporary Art Norway.

Support for Artists Space’s exhibitions and programs is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, I.A. O'Shaughnessy Foundation, The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, The Cowles Charitable Trust, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council, The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Milton and Sally Avery Foundation, and the Herman Goldman Foundation.

    Color image of a sculpture of a human body, laying face up, placed on a concrete floor. The figure is dressed in French military apparel and their head rests on a large glittery, red bow.
    Isabelle Frances McGuire, Death of Napoleon, 2024 [Color image of a sculpture of a human body, laying face up, placed on a concrete floor. The figure is dressed in French military apparel and their head rests on a large glittery, red bow.]
    Color image of a white gallery space, with three large boxes placed throughout. On the left, one side of a box is shown with a painted landscape of green hills against a blue sky, and a black fence in front of it. In the background, another wooden box is painted with a dark finish, and a pair of headphones are hung on the box. In the foreground, to the right of the room, sits a beige box.
    Matthew Langan-Peck. Installation view, Au feu rouge, Edouard Montassut, 2024 [Color image of a white gallery space, with three large boxes placed throughout. On the left, one side of a box is shown with a painted landscape of green hills against a blue sky, and a black fence in front of it. In the background, another wooden box is painted with a dark finish, and a pair of headphones are hung on the box. In the foreground, to the right of the room, sits a beige box.]
    Color image of the corner of a gallery space with three hanging sculptures. The sculptures are made of pigmented silicone, old clothes, zip ties and various other found materials. The sculptures are mainly made of white materials, and feature anthropormorphic and abstracted forms.
    Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, Gloria Gloria, Balenciaga 2010 FW/RTW by Nicolas Ghesquiere, and Kate Moss as a hologram for Alexander McQueen, 2022 [Color image of the corner of a gallery space with three hanging sculptures. The sculptures are made of pigmented silicone, old clothes, zip ties and various other found materials. The sculptures are mainly made of white materials, and feature anthropormorphic and abstracted forms.]