New Show At Nüart

Dwellings of the Mind is a group exhibition of new work by four artists who create richly imagined worlds. The show includes three painters and one sculptor, each approaching figuration in a way that features familiar objects behaving in atypical fashion. 

In Matthias Brandes paintings, houses float and fly; ocean liners are at once massive and miniature; and horses are both themselves and statues of themselves. In work full of paradox and rich dichotomies: heavy/light, warm/cool, still/moving, animate/inanimate, Brandes creates worlds that feel mythic and ancient, while at the same time, absolutely contemporary. 

Vincenzo Calli paints worlds alive with the serene eroticism of nature, where flowers, animals, and humans revel in the sensuality of the natural world. In Calli’s softly rendered oil paintings, the human and the natural worlds are all parts of the larger whole. 

In the virtuosic imagination of Santiago Pérez, art history, pop culture, and dream-like non-sequitur…