Calvin Miceli-Nelson

Sections

Opening reception: Thursday, March 5, 6 – 9pm

Exhibition on view: March 6 – 20, 2026

Gallery hours: Wednesday – Saturday, noon – 5pm, or by appointment by contacting calvin.micelinelson@gmail.com

Roski Graduate Gallery (Los Angeles Arts District) 1262 Palmetto St, Los Angeles, CA 90013

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Sections presents a group of new and recent works by the artist Calvin Miceli-Nelson. The selected works exist as part of a larger narrative project comprised of sculpture, painting, and fiction writing titled Seeing Yourself From Above. Combining assemblage sculptures with surrealist fiction, the exhibition presents various methods for examining the mythology and language that surrounds ideas of illness and insanity in both personal and historical contexts.

Excerpts from the written text of Seeing Yourself From Above will be read live during the opening and closing of the exhibition.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Calvin Miceli-Nelson (b.1993) is an artist based in Los Angeles. His work examines themes of madness, memory, and mythology through sculpture and fiction writing. Using written word, spoken language, and found objects as methods for exploring narrative, his practice functions as an investigation of the language that surrounds ideas of insanity and illness. His work has been shown at Freddy, James Fuentes, and Page NYC in New York, As It Stands and Gene’s Dispensary in Los Angeles, and 4649 in Tokyo. He received his BFA from Washington University in St. Louis in 2015. He is currently an MFA candidate at USC.