For Frieze London 2026, Night Gallery will present new work by Hasani Sahlehe, Wanda Koop, Clare Woods, Claire Tabouret, among others
Installation view of Night Gallery at Frieze London, Booth C21 , October 14-18th 2026 Photography courtesy Night Gallery
Clare Woods The Droopy, 2026 oil on aluminium 19 3/4 x 19 3/4 in (50 x 50 cm) Courtesy of the artist and Night Gallery, Los Angeles.
For Frieze London 2026, Night Gallery will present new work by Hasani Sahlehe, Wanda Koop, Clare Woods, Claire Tabouret, among others. Distinct approaches to painting converge around light, repetition, memory, and transformation, the forces through which an image gathers meaning over time. Atlanta-based Hasani Sahlehe treats abstraction as an experiential language. Working on raw, unprimed canvas laid flat on his studio floor, he pours thick acrylic gels and mists paint through an airbrush, letting soft fields of color sit against denser, physical passages. His compositions often draw on post-and-lintel structures recalling ancient contemplative sites, with references ranging from Alice Coltrane's later recordings to abstraction's earliest ambition: that color and form might communicate inner experience directly. Sahlehe treats painting as a vehicle for transformation rather than mere decoration. Where Sahlehe disperses light across fields of color, Wanda Koop concentrates it, with this particular exhibition, into flames. Koop’s candle paintings isolate small, delicate sources of illumination against atmospheric grounds, turning a familiar object into a symbol of vigilance, fragility, and quiet resistance, joining the moons, eyes, and planets she has long used to register the psychological atmosphere of the present. Watchful and animate, the candles hold darkness at bay even as their light stays temporary. Working primarily on aluminum panels, Clare Woods has developed a unique, signature style of wet-into-wet brushwork, creating richly textured, voluminous gestures with aluminum sheen peeking through. Using her own photographs as source material, she transforms stillness through deliberate yet intuitive mark-making, resulting in works that hover between still-life and pure painterly expression. For Claire Tabouret, painting, history, and light have recently taken on an architectural dimension. Tabouret was commissioned by French President Emmanuel Macron and Paris Archbishop Laurent Ulrich to design six new stained-glass windows for Notre-Dame Cathedral, working with the historic Atelier Simon-Marq.
Installation view of Night Gallery at Frieze London, Booth C21 , October 14-18th 2026 Photography courtesy Night Gallery
Drawing on personal and found photographs, she builds her paintings through washes, drips, and saturated underpainting, calling her process one of “burying and uncovering,” a movement that lets an image hold presence, absence, intimacy, and historical distance simultaneously.
Installation view of Night Gallery at Frieze London, Booth C21 , October 14-18th 2026 Photography courtesy Night Gallery
Together, these artists treat painting as an accumulation rather than a fixed statement: Sahlehe through luminous color, Koop through a flickering point of light, Woods through a bold palette and thick brushstrokes, and Tabouret through layers of memory. Distinct as they are, each artist’s work shows painting’s ability to make time—that elusive phenomenon that binds us all— visible.
The gallery is at booth C21 until the 18th of this month. The gallery can be found here.
