Category: Painting

Hilda Palafox is not merely painting; she’s crafting a dialogue—a response to both the beauty and the challenges present in her surroundings. When we first met her, years ago, it was about the mural as a means to communicate, presenting a nuanced but universal language as a pubic act. This kind of work, the public art, reaffirmed the power of art as a vital force for change, resonating in a world that sometimes feels divided. She was a fresh aesthetic in what was, and often is, a male space. And then, with each new project, Palafox continued to elevate the conversation, creating a personal bodies of work in the studio, work as rich and complex as that of Mexico City…

Victoria Miro is delighted to present new paintings by Inka Essenhigh. The New York-based artist’s sixth solo exhibition with the gallery comprises a body of work completed during the past year, featuring botanical, landscape and figurative motifs poised between an exuberant exterior world and an energetic interior consciousness.

Gladstone Gallery presents World Without End, an exhibition of new works by Brooklyn-based artist Aaron Gilbert. Known for his paintings that probe the distance between individuals and their communities, the private and the public, and the real and the conjured, Gilbert imagines the personal narratives that quietly unfold in the corners of our shared societal structures. Guided by myth, an uncanny sense of timelessness, and the artist’s deep interest in storytelling, these emotionally tender tableaux examine how individuals maintain their humanity in a historical moment punctuated by crisis, the looming peril of systemic collapse, and the increasingly totalizing velocity of consumer-driven desires.