PATRON is proud to announce a solo presentation by interdisciplinary artist Jamal Cyrus for Frieze Los Angeles 2026. Cyrus’s research-driven practice engages the creative strategies of collage and assemblage to examine the layered residues of history embedded within material, sound, and image. For his presentation at Frieze Los Angeles, Cyrus has developed a body of work that extends his ongoing engagement with material history including a prepared saxophone assemblage and cast bronze sculptures and a series of denim textile works. Drawing from archives of Black political thought, experimental music, film, and honoring diverse traditions of American vernacular expression, Cyrus investigates how aesthetic forms can carry and transmit suppressed narratives across time. 

Emerging from a year-long consideration of the role of the Blues as a history and a poetry, PATRON’s presentation centers on Cyrus’s sculptural and installation-based works, emphasizing his transformation of materials such as denim, concrete, vinyl records, and musical instruments. Acts of cutting, ripping, joining, and reconfiguring, these materials are catalyzed as active elements of memory and resistance, acknowledging the entangled histories of geography, race, and commerce that shape their production and circulation. These constellations of culture are evident in Cyrus’s textile works including Sonny (2026), in which Cyrus collages numerical shards from records over a patchwork of blue denim tesserae and Archipelagos in a Negro Spiritual (2025), which incorporates cuttings and images from Jet magazines. Honoring musical instruments as vessels of history, Every time you pick me up my cup runneth over (2026) and Balm (2026), Cyrus incorporates found saxophones, horns, and percussion instruments as physical material to amplify how musical traditions carry and shape visual and popular culture. 

When placed in dialogue with one another, Cyrus’s works form a constellation of voices, articulating languages of resistance, survival through poetic forms of preservation. The largest solo exhibition of Cyrus’s work to date in Los Angeles, PATRON’s presentation expands upon and celebrates the artist’s relationship to this city, building from his significant role in Alice Coltrane: Monument Eternal at the HAMMER in 2025, and his solo exhibition, The End of My Beginning at ICA LA in 2022.