SALON takes its title from both the salon-style hang and the domestic interior: two modes of display built on proximity, accumulation, and personal taste. Bringing together works by artists who transform familiar materials and everyday forms, the exhibition considers what happens when distinctions between art and decoration, utility and ornament, begin to dissolve.

The works in Carmen Argote’s first gallery show in New York are unified by her use of cochineal, a deep red dye harvested from insects, whose usage dates back to the Mayans and Aztecs. When mixed with lemon juice, the dye shifts to vibrant orange, scarlet, gray, and violet, a viscerally intense palette with associations of sun, blood, passion, and death. Argote references fire, a force of nature both destructive and sanctifying. Her sculptures suggest chemical transformation, nodding to the 2025 wildfires that forever changed the landscape of Los Angeles, where she has lived since moving from Guadalajara at age five. Their compacted and enclosed forms will be the containment of a force that resists it.