Installation view of Raul De Lara and Madeline Peckenpaugh at The Armory Show (September 25-27, 2026 / VIP Preview — September 24, 2026), New York, NY, Booth P5. Photo: Daniel Greer
Javits Center, 429 11th Ave, New York, NY, Booth P5
September 25-27, 2026 (VIP Preview — September 24, 2026)
Alexander Berggruen is pleased to present new sculptures and paintings by Raul De Lara and Madeline Peckenpaugh at The Armory Show 2026.
Living and working in New York City, these two artists create semblances of the natural world through material transformation—Peckenpaugh from abstract painterly gestures, and De Lara from handcrafted wood.
Show Dates & Times
Thursday, September 24, 2026: VIP Preview
Friday, September 25, 2026: 11 am–6 pm
Saturday, September 26, 2026: 11 am–7 pm
Sunday, September 27, 2026: 11 am–6 pm
Location
Booth P5
Javits Center
429 11th Ave
New York, NY 10001
For additional information and images, please contact the gallery at info@alexanderberggruen.com. You can also find more information about the fair on The Armory Show website.
Raul De Lara in the studio, New York, NY. Photo: Hannah Edelman
Raul De Lara (b. 1991, Culiacán, Sinaloa, México) handcrafts wooden sculptures that depict household objects and the natural world. Poetic symbolism emerges, inspired by his experience as an immigrant from Mexico and a DACA recipient. His work balances political messages with exploring the beauty and mystery of the natural world and the mundane.
The artist was included in the gallery’s group exhibition Raul De Lara, Shanique Emelife, Sihan Guo, Tahnee Lonsdale (December 11, 2024–January 15, 2025).
De Lara received an MFA in Sculpture and Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University and a BFA in Studio Art from The University of Texas at Austin. He has held museum solo exhibition at SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA and The Contemporary Austin, TX. De Lara’s work has been exhibited at Tucson Museum of Art, AZ; Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Museum, CA; Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA; Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Wharton Esherick Museum, Paoli, PA; MINT Gallery, Munich, DE; The Immigrant Artist Biennial, New York, NY; and Institute of Contemporary Art | Maine College of Art & Design, Portland, ME. The artist has been featured in Art in America, The New York Times T Magazine, American Craft, and Interior Design, among many others. Accolades the artist has been awarded include the Maxwell/Hanrahan Award in Craft, The Hopper Prize Shortlist, NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Craft/Sculpture, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Fellowship, and Luminarts Fellowship Finalist. He lives and works in New York City.
Madeline Peckenpaugh in the studio, Queens, NY 2026. Photo: Philipp Hoffmann
Madeline Peckenpaugh (b. 1991, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) renders depth through iterations of adding and subtracting paint, creating a semblance of deep and flat space simultaneously. Probing the slips in perception between corporeal experience, memory, and imagination, she shifts the scale of everyday elements, interlaces components, and depicts forms in both single tones and fluctuating textures. The viewer’s trained perception of the landscape can become questioned, as monumental structures begin to vaporize, and natural forms become paper thin. There is a reconciliation of opposites: deep space of the real world with the flat space of the canvas.
This duo booth follows the gallery’s two solo shows with the artist Madeline Peckenpaugh: Chosen Places (May 21-June 25, 2025) and Madeline Peckenpaugh: Farsight (April 12-May 17, 2023). Peckenpaugh was included in the gallery’s booth at the Dallas Art Fair in 2024 and in the group shows The Natural World: Part II (March 9-April 13, 2022) and Sholto Blissett, Emma Fineman, Madeline Peckenpaugh (December 10, 2021-January 22, 2022). Alexander Berggruen represents the artist.
Peckenpaugh received an MFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI and a BFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. Peckenpaugh’s work has been exhibited at Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY; Bremond Capela, Paris, FR; 1969 Gallery, New York, NY; F2T Gallery, Milan, IT; Andrew Reed Gallery, Miami, FL; PM/AM Gallery, London, UK; COMA, Sydney Australia; and The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI; among others. Her work is included in the public collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Female Artists of Mougins Museum (FAMM), Mougins, France; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; the Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA; Brown University, Providence, RI; and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. Peckenpaugh lives and works in Queens, NY.
For additional information and images, please contact the gallery at info@alexanderberggruen.com. You can also find more information about the fair on The Armory Show website.
For his latest collaboration with Hermès, the Mexican artist Raul De Lara brings his whimsical wood sculptures into the world of luxury craftsmanship, exploring the relationship between nature, production and the objects that accompany our lives. A key factor in De Lara’s approach to art-making is the imaginative exercise of anthropomorphizing ordinary objects to reveal their inner lives. Guiding his practice is a fundamental question: when does a piece of wood stop being merely a material and become an object with a personality, a history or even a spirit?
“A lot of the motifs I’ve been doing in the past few years are what I call our silent roommates, which include your houseplants, furniture, objects that accompany our daily life,” he explained. “A lot of my work reflects my interest in bringing personalities to these seemingly inanimate objects. When do they come to life? What does that spark of life look like?”
When we spoke, De Lara was preparing to present at The Armory Show with Alexander Berggruen in a duo booth where his new sculptures would be paired with paintings by Madeline Peckenpaugh.
Alexander Berggruen is showing the whimsical wooden sculptures of Mexican-born, Queens-based artist (and Silver Arts Project alum) Raul De Lara, just weeks after the artist unveiled his window installation at Hermès Madison Maison and opened a solo exhibition at The Contemporary Austin. His anthropomorphic plants and botanical forms that become furniture hint at a reenchantment of the mundane, while serving as metaphors for his own experience of in-betweenness as someone who immigrated to the U.S. and lived without documentation for approximately eight years before entering the DACA program. One highlight is Mis Flores / My Flowers, in which five potted flowers, each rendered in a different-colored wood, suggest the possibility of adapting and flourishing in new environments, even after being transplanted. Presented alongside the raw intuition of Madeline Peckenpaugh’s fluidly organic abstract stratifications, the gallery placed most available sculptures early in the fair. The Hermès window apparently generated multiple requests for commissions and works ahead of the fair.
A deep breath taking in scenery. A slow exhale, finally at ease. A held breath in anticipation. The paintings of Madeline Peckenpaugh and sculptures of Raul De Lara, presented together, forge a scene eliciting the same visceral responses the body finds when it stands within the familiar, the unknown, or a place of longing. For their debut feature at The Armory Show 2026, the two New York-based artists turn to expressive abstraction and figurative realism respectively to capture the ways natural surroundings hold and surface deep sentiments, from personal memory to shared experiences.
