Steven Baris, Frea Buckler, Joshua Enck, Alyson Khan, Hyland Mather.
1/3 – 6/4 2019
Space Gallery | Denver | Colorado
The exhibition presents a focused exploration of geometry as a shared conceptual and visual framework, revealing the diverse ways contemporary artists interpret and transform this language. The works on display investigate how geometric principles can be adapted, expanded, and personalized, generating a dialogue between order and disruption, symmetry and irregularity, precision and lyricism.
The show emphasizes the interplay between contrasting qualities—patterns and variation, subtlety and intensity, decorative sensibilities and raw expression—demonstrating how geometry can function as both a structural and expressive element. Through their approaches, the artists explore the boundaries of form, manipulating scale, line, and space to create compositions that challenge conventional perceptions and invite close visual engagement.
By presenting these different strategies side by side, the exhibition highlights the flexibility of geometric abstraction in contemporary practice. It positions geometry not simply as a formal device, but as a conceptual tool capable of shaping rhythm, perception, and spatial relationships. The works collectively reveal how a common visual language can be interpreted in multiple ways, opening new possibilities for understanding form, structure, and visual tension in contemporary art.
The exhibition provides a framework for considering how contemporary artists continue to engage with historical and modernist approaches to geometry while extending them into personal, innovative territories. It invites viewers to reflect on the capacity of abstract forms to communicate complexity, emotion, and conceptual depth within a language that is at once universal and individually expressive.