Future Exhibitions

I have several ideas for future art exhibitions, and to keep me motivated as well as to generate interest, I am posting them here. If you manage a venue that would be a good fit for one of these projects, please feel free to contact me. 

Chesco Hernandez and I present a private two-person pop-up show of abstract artworks titled Speed and Depth. Chesco’s oeuvre is inspired by the kinetic art movements of Latin America. The colorful stripes in his hard-edge paintings evoke a sense of lateral movement across the plane of the canvas, while my art is more about pictorial space in which transparency effects lead the eye into the image. Both of our approaches, however, are ways to employ visual elements that were once declared unsuitable for formal abstraction. Speed and Depth asks the viewer to consider the possibility that optical illusion, whether it be of movement or space, is an inherently abstract phenomenon that has much to offer to the medium of painting and to experience in general. 

Encoded Harmony. Photo courtesy of Chesco Hernandez. 

In the exhibition, Grid Life, I team up with Arlene Navo and Root Bradford to present works that explore the ambiguous meanings behind the concept of the grid. As a metaphor for architecture, technology, and even artistic creativity, the grid can appear both as constricting and living, isolating and evolving. Each of our unique approaches to the grid, which range from photography to drawing and painting, unite to form a multidimensional framework of shared experience and cooperative vision. 

MEMOIR: It's In The Telling, 2024. Photo courtesy of Root Bradford. 

The Straight & Narrow, 2021. Photo courtesy of Arlene Navo. 

In the online virtual exhibition, Parallel Paradigms, Ivanevid and Luc Sokolowski juxtapose their artistic visions which have both validating parallels as well as complementary differences. Their abstract paintings express a shared interest in pictorial illusions of light, shadow, and transparency as well as suggest mirror investigations into harmony and chaos. At the same time, the shapes in Ivanevid’s art reflect a street graffiti perspective, while Luc’s compositions indicate a formalist sensibility. Parallel Paradigms presents the tentative results of their concurrent and occasionally overlapping artistic projects to gather insights that may inform the future directions of their studio practices. 

Photo courtesy of Ivanevid.

Maps of the Random presents paintings that chart the geography of chaos and explore the possibility of seeing a kind of intelligence in the mystery of randomness. These works were created using algorithms and formulas that leave certain decisions up to chance, thereby setting up a strange interplay between automation and innovation.