Bastard
Countryside: Opening

Vielmetter Los Angeles hosts the opening reception for Mario Joyce’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, Bastard Countryside, on Saturday, November 21, from 4 to 6 pm. The exhibition remains on view through February 6, 2027. Joyce’s new series of landscape paintings examines the intertwined genealogies of land and human ancestry and how both are shaped by migration, inheritance, extraction, and time. The works reflect on his relocation to California and draw on the landscape around his new home, with the San Gabriel Mountains recurring throughout the paintings. The exhibition includes “Part Stone, Part Blood, On Both Sides,” 2026, made with soil, vintage collage, and oil paint on canvas.