Event Details
ARCANE Space presents someplace, somewhere new works by Morleigh Steinberg on view January 9 – February 8, 2026.
Opening Reception:, January 9, 6 – 9pm
On view: January 9 – February 8,2026
ARCANE Space, Venice Beach
324 Sunset Ave. Unit G, Venice, CA 90291 (Next to Gjusta Bakery)
Gallery Hours: 10:00am – 4 pm, Thursday–Sunday (weekdays by appointment)
someplace, somewhere extends Steinberg’s inquiry into the mutable borders between place and perception. This work began with a reexamination of traditional Irish landscape painting, utilizing photographic material sourced in western Ireland and our western skies. Through spliced and abstracted compositions, this installation of kaleidoscopic gardens, dizzying vistas and blooming skies shifts the viewers perception to a place coveted, sought after and unmapped.
Her compositions hover among memory and dream as she stitches her photos into altered terrains which complicate ideas of horizon, perspective, and pictorial coherence. The artist recomposes landscape imagery into speculative architectures of light, reflection, and negative space. Silver mylar prints invite viewers to encounter these new terrains as a shifting, reflective skin: mutable, luminous, and alive.
The series departs from, yet speaks to, Steinberg’s long-running LA Skylines project, which isolates the incidental geometries of urban power infrastructures. Here, the artist continues her practice of re-seeing, foregrounding the perceptual interstices between what is recorded, what is remembered, and what is imagined.
“Every image contains its own fractal,” Steinberg notes. “I’m not documenting a place so much as excavating the possibility embedded within it. This exhibit is an invitation to occupy both here and elsewhere—to move through a landscape that is simultaneously observed, invented, and felt.”
Using recomposed photographs and layered abstractions, Steinberg pushes the familiar into the surreal. At the center of this new series is a question of belonging: where do images live when they move between places—between Los Angeles and Ireland, between personal geography and mythic terrain?
About the Artist
Morleigh Steinberg’s artistic practice is grounded in a lifelong investigation of movement. Trained in modern dance, improvisation, and composition, she approaches each medium—photography, filmmaking, and curation—with the same choreographic attentiveness to rhythm, space, and transformation. Her visual works reflect her instinct for kinetic structure: images shift, collide, and evolve, mirroring the body’s relationship to time and environment.
As a dancer and choreographer, Steinberg has toured extensively worldwide with Momix, ISO Dance, and ARCANE Collective, whose performances have appeared at the Guggenheim Museum (NYC), The Hammer Museum (LA), REDCAT (LA), and numerous venues across Europe. She has directed and shot award-winning short dance films, including the full-length documentary Height of Sky, as well as multiple short films and music videos.
Since 1993, Steinberg has collaborated with U2 as a creative consultant and choreographer, conceiving staging, props, and visual language for the band’s tours—including U2’s groundbreaking UV / U2 which opened the Sphere in Las Vegas. She also co-directed V:UV/U2 An Immersive Concert Film.
In 2017, Steinberg co-founded ARCANE Space in Venice, California, dedicated to presenting visual artworks by established and emerging artists. Her curatorial practice is driven by narrative, environment, and transformation. She has produced five exhibitions of her own work at ARCANE Space—LA Skylines (2017), Tucked In
(2019), Pattern Sky (2020), If We Can’t Fix It – It Ain’t Busted
(2021–2022), and Postage: The Macro World of Stamps (2025). Her curatorial project Dance and Eye traveled to Cuba and Ireland in 2024, and is slotted to be presented at Château La Coste in Aix-en-Provence, France, in Fall 2026. She has also designed and published books related to her exhibitions and projects.
About Arcane Space:
Co-founded by Morleigh Steinberg and Frally Hynes in 2017, Arcane Space is a contemporary art gallery in Venice Beach committed to showcasing thought-provoking work by established and emerging artists across all disciplines.