Archives for July 2026

Mitsu Okubo likes to offend. His “Milk Feet” paintings live up to that mandate, executed in black acrylic, starting off as swirls of calligraphic oval shapes that are later amended with grotesque pictorial attributes.

“Forever Grateful” refuses to treat the Grateful Dead as simply another legendary rock band. Instead, it explores the community surrounding the band, particularly the artists whose imagery gave visual form to its music and mythology.

Cate White and M. Mark Bauer depict stylized figures in various states of cartoonish low-brow duress that may be their only point of connection. Bauer and White capture, each in their own way, the dogged, non-heroic absurdities of life in 2026.

JoAnn Ugolini’s paintings manifest as a burst of swirling colors that overlap into mesh-like configurations that simultaneously coalesce and dissolve, half of which intimate ghostly faces when viewed from a distance.

Deladier Almeida mines a vein of abstraction derived from representational content. It’s an approach to landscape grounded in geometry and rich chromatic contrasts, often adopting a vertiginous perspective.

What is the shape of thought? In this exhibition of six artists, co-curators Alexandra Bowes and Catherine Wagner pose this question, followed by, “And what are the stimuli that shape [our thoughts]?” Both questions are newly relevant in today’s attention-shattering, AI-everywhere world.

“Gather tender night,” invokes late nineteenth century nocturnes which explored melancholy and the transfiguration of opposites. Diedrick Brackens extends the metaphor to explore the thin line between fragmentation and wholeness.

Miljohn Ruperto weaves a dreamlike realm where the boundaries of reality begin to dissolve. Against the gallery’s dark gallery walls, Ruperto’s immersive convergence of photography, sculpture, and digital animation creates an atmosphere in which matter appears perpetually mutable.