If you’re attending Frieze Week Los Angeles this year, don’t miss Etudes: Object Humanity—Ali’s early studies that offer a first look at the bold, pop-inflected direction she’s charting for 2025. These works serve as both a prelude and a collectible artifact, distilling the essence of her upcoming Object Humanity series in vibrant, gestural form without unveiling its full-scale ambition.
Following the success of Neon Primitivism, Ali returns with Object Humanity, an evocative and emerging new chapter in her exploration of humanity’s relationship with time, materials, and meaning. This series deepens Ali’s investigation into the cultural and existential forces that shape us. With a distinct blend of intellectual curiosity and artistic daring and a nod to punk ethos, the series champions what Ali terms the “Cultural Simultaneity,” a framework that fuses philosophical pluralism with the fractured perspectives of cubism. Ali’s bold, extroverted vision works to juxtapose and collapse tradition with subversion, the historic and the now, abstraction with gesture, the sacredness and commonality of all things and the historic with innovation.
They will be on preview during Frieze Week LA, as part of A Show of Support at Tappan on Melrose, opening February 27th, this preview is a rare chance to witness Ali’s evolving aesthetic before it fully takes flight—and to take home a piece of that genesis. Proceeds from her sales will support those impacted by the recent LA fires, making this both an artistic moment and a meaningful one.