Gallery Exhibitions

Tangere

10.17.26 — 12.06.26
HP Denham Jade Yumang

LVL3 is elated to announce the opening of Tangere, a two-person exhibition featuring the works of HP Denham (Los Angeles, CA) and Jade Yumang (Chicago, IL) on Saturday, October 17th, 2026.

Noli me tangere. At the threshold of the real, the caress traces the no-man’s land between being and not-yet-being. It seeks the unreality that slips away from the light of the graspable, the reasonable, the sensible.

This threshold of unreality is where Denham and Yumang meet: corporeal forms are defamiliarized, transformed and abstracted through oil and thread, respectively, into assemblages that unmake totalizing assumptions and agreements about what bodies are and do.

Touch me not. Offer me not to the grasping altar of anticipation. Find me in the caress that searches and forages, that ceaselessly escapes its form toward a future never future enough.

Opening Reception: Saturday, October 17th, 6-9 PM. Tangere will be on view until December 6th, 2026.
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This text is deeply inspired by Emmanuel Levinas’ Totality and Infinity (1969).

Installation view
Jade Yumang, Divining Fleshy Spikes, 2026. Reactive dye on cotton, rayon and metallic thread, glass beads, recycled fiberfill, gel nail polish on acrylic nail tips, and aluminum wire. 43 x 16 x 6.5 in.
Divining Fleshy Spikes, detail
Wet Behind the Ears (HP Denham) and Require Some Shade (Jade Yumang).
HP Denham, Wet Behind the Ears, 2026. Oil on canvas. 45 x 55 in.
Wet Behind the Ears, detail
Jade Yumang, Require Some Shade, 2025. Reactive dye on cotton broadcloth and cotton yarn, glass beads, recycled fiberfill, stabilizer, gel nail polish on hard gel, and aluminum wire. 69 x 26 x 7 in.
Require Some Shade, detail
Installation view
HP Denham, Feet First (A Circle’s Edge), 2022-2026. Oil on panel. 11 x 14 in.
Feet First (A Circle’s Edge), detail
Jade Yumang, There’s No Return to the Lower Half, 2026. Reactive dye on cotton, rayon and metallic thread, buckram, glass beads, recycled fiberfill, gel nail polish on acrylic nail tips, and aluminum wire. 72 x 45 x 45 in.
There’s No Return to the Lower Half, detail
ecce homo (HP Denham) and There’s a Viscera Sucker Born Every Minute (Jade Yumang)
HP Denham, ecce homo, 2022. Oil on panel. 9 x 12 in.
ecce homo, detail
Jade Yumang, There’s a Viscera Sucker Born Every Minute, 2026. Reactive dye on cotton broadcloth, cotton and rayon yarn, metallic yarn, glass beads, recycled fiberfill, batting, gel nail polish on hard gel, white steel corset boning, and aluminum wire. 62 x 39 x 15 in.
There’s a Viscera Sucker Born Every Minute, detail
Installation view
HP Denham, Eat Street, 2026. Oil on canvas. 5 x 7 in.
HP Denham, Having Recently Come from the Interior, 2023. Oil on canvas. 48 x 60 in.
Having Recently Come from the Interior, detail
Jade Yumang, Let Us Prey, 2026. Reactive dye on cotton, rayon and metallic thread, glass beads, recycled fiberfill, gel nail polish on acrylic nail tips, and aluminum wire. 48 x 52 x 26 in.
Let Us Prey, detail
Jade Yumang, Unfurled Wings Unleashed Angst, 2025. Reactive dye on cotton, rayon and metallic thread, glass beads, recycled fiberfill, gel nail polish on acrylic nail tips, and aluminum wire. 35 x 18 x 18 in.
Installation view
HP Denham, Prodding the Bog, 2025. Oil on panel. 11 x 14 in.
Jade Yumang, Garden Party Wings, 2025. Reactive dye on cotton, rayon and metallic thread, glass beads, recycled fiberfill, and aluminum wire. 60 x 35 x 15 in. Photo Credit: Jade Yumang.
Garden Party Wings, detail
HP Denham, Annihilation, 2026. Oil on canvas. 24 x 30 in.