FRIENDS & LOVERS / a group exhibition of works by

Vani Aguilar

Rachel Borenstein

Trevor King

Kate McQuillen

Zach Seeger

Jacob Yanes

OPENING Sunday March 8, 2026 / 4 - 6 pm

For more information and images, please contact info@goodnakedgallery.com.

2413 Hyperion Avenue / Los Angeles CA 90027

Good Naked (Los Angeles CA) is pleased to present FRIENDS & LOVERS, an exhibition opening Sunday, March 8, 2026 from 4-6pm.

The artworks in this exhibition rely on close looking and attention. Each artist pauses on their subject with love and care. Material play calls us toward subtle interactions and fleeting moments. The lonely crowd and city at night take center stage as figures negotiate space and feeling.

Zach Seeger's watercolors center passing figures sharing private and public space. Vani Aguilar's drawings reflect on personal relationships to family, landscape, and the objects we hold dear. Both artists effect a style fitting to the tone of their works - washy fluid brushstrokes capture a quickly paced city in Seeger's paintings and repetitive hatched lines suggest the vibrations of spaces filled with memory and loss in Aguilar's drawings. Trevor King's sculptures capture a quiet and brooding gesture of sweetness and unknowing - an attempt to connect via the simplest of gifts. Kate McQuillen's work is rooted in abstraction and action painting - layering silkscreen gestures toward an image that vibrates with moiré patterns and references notions of flight, pursuit, and transformation based in retellings of Greek mythology. Jacob Yanes' figurative sculptures similarly pay tribute to a history of bodies negotiating environments marked by disruption. His use of press molded, riveted, and hammered copper sheets suggest a restructuring of human need and resilience. Rachel Borenstein's Night Sky Series pays tribute to the changing light and atmosphere of a city at dusk, lingering in the romance of time passing and the poetry of the everyday.

FRIENDS & LOVERS will be on view by appointment March 8 - April 5, 2026.

at 2413 Hyperion - a community space for art and music.

For more information and images, please contact info@goodnakedgallery.com.

Vani Aguilar is a Los Angeles based Chicanx artist who was born and raised in Pasadena, California. They attained their BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and their AA from Pasadena City College. Aguilar’s work reinterprets traditional Chicano modes of making to negotiate their identity and the changing landscape of brown working class neighborhoods they’ve loved and called home. Aguilar has received several awards including Ox-Bow’s Latinx Artist Visibility Award, SAIC’s IDEA grant, and Watershed Center for Ceramic Art’s Zenobia Award.

Rachel Borenstein received an MFA from the University of California, Irvine MFA and a BFA from The Maryland Institute College of Art. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, and has exhibited work in New York at My Pet Ram (2025), and Los Angeles at Last Projects (2025) and Gallery Mariposa (2024). Borenstein’s work has been featured in Hyperallergic, New American Paintings, and Art Maze Magazine.

Trevor King holds a BFA from Slippery Rock University and earned his MFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. He has been an artist-in-residence at Township10, MASS MoCA, Haystack Mountain School, Ox-Bow, Sculpture Space NYC, Greenwich House Pottery, and The Hambidge Center. He was a Fellow at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and currently serves as a Professor of Art at Marymount Manhattan College. King’s work has been featured in Sculpture Magazine, Maake Magazine, Floræ, and CFile, and have also appeared in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Recent solo exhibitions include Projections at Art Lot (2022), Notions at Concept Gallery (2022) and Sculpture Space NYC (2018), and STILLNESSNESS at Emmanuel Barbault Gallery (2018).

Kate McQuillen graduated with a BFA in Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Art and an MFA in Visual Arts and Print Media from York University. She has been included in group exhibitions at IPCNY (NY), Riverside Arts Center (IL), Poetry Foundation (IL), Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UT), North Illinois University Art Museum (IL), and the Hyde Park Art Center (IL). Additionally, McQuillen’s work has been presented at art fairs including The Armory Show (NY), Untitled Miami, Future Fair (NY), Expo Chicago, and Art Toronto. McQuillen has been featured in Brooklyn Rail, Art in Print, Hyperallergic, The Chicago Reader, Art Spiel, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Magazine, The Toronto Globe and Mail, Time Out Chicago, and Poetry Magazine.

Zach Seeger is a painter working in NYC and Upstate NY. He has exhibited at John Malloy Gallery, Freight & Volume, Arts & Leisure, Life on Mars, and Gold Montclair. He is a frequent contributor for Two Coats of Paint and teaches at the 92nd Y in Manhattan.

Jacob Yanes is a sculptor born in Yonkers, NY and raised in Cambridge, MA. He attended St. John’s College in Santa Fe, NM, earned a BA in Fine Arts at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA, and an MFA in Sculpture at University of California, Los Angeles. Residencies include the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. Awards include a grant from the Pollock Krasner Foundation. His work is in private and public collections including the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA. He has completed permanent public artworks for the City of Los Angeles, commissioned by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural affairs. He lives and works in Los Angeles.