Stephen Truax: Again for the first time

Fernberger Gallery Los Angeles · Hollywood

Exhibition on view: Jun 6, 2026 - Jul 3, 2026

For ten years, Stephen Truax has painted on-site in single sessions—friends and lovers in repose, his partner Thomas, beaches at Fire Island Pines, a New Hampshire lake—in gouache and pencil on small watercolor tablets. Again, for the First Time is Truax’s Los Angeles debut, featuring new paintings from his plein air practice. Looking to Fairfield Porter and Lois Dodd, he treats figure and landscape with equal directness, revisiting familiar sites as if encountering them fresh each time.

Artist

Stephen Truax

Stephen Truax is an artist, curator, and advisor whose work has been exhibited at the FLAG Art Foundation, the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, the Long Island Museum, and other venues. He has organized exhibitions including Toward the Light: Artists for the Ali Forney Center at David Zwirner, Any Distance Between Us at the RISD Museum, and Intimacy at Yossi Milo Gallery. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Artforum, and Fire Island Art: 100 Years, and is held in the collections of 21c Museum Hotel and the Tang Teaching Museum. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Truax founded his advisory in 2022 and has since raised more than $1.7 million for LGBTQ+ nonprofits, including the Ali Forney Center.

Works

Artworks in this exhibition