MAUREEN PALEY | MORENA DI LUNA

She initially works with chalk to map out contours and angles, allowing her pigments to seep into the canvas while delicate lines that are reminiscent of fine threads or slivers of light complete the compositions – tethering the beholder. These paintings are of liminal spaces and confound a logical sense of scale and spatial arrangement – shifting between depictions of colossal structures and minuscule forms. Such oscillations evoke the irregular and non-linear ways in which buildings and sites of memory are perceived, recorded, and recalled. She initially works with chalk to map out contours and angles, allowing her pigments to seep into the canvas while delicate lines that are reminiscent of fine threads or slivers of light complete the compositions – tethering the beholder. These paintings are of liminal spaces and confound a logical sense of scale and spatial arrangement – shifting between depictions of colossal structures and minuscule forms. Such oscillations evoke the irregular and non-linear ways in which buildings and sites of memory are perceived, recorded, and recalled.

Agosto Machado Marsha (Altar) mixed media installation with costume jewelry, pins, and textile; metal, plastic, paper, and glass objects; artist’s teeth, keys, Chinese tassels, feathers, matchbook, handmade feather butterfly, Supreme ladybug stickers, plastic beads, fabric flowers, plastic Buddha, crystal, Chinese joss paper, shell, wishbone, Fai Chun decorations, tooth; and original artwork by Rick Shupper 181.61 × 46.99 × 30.48 cm – 71 1/2 × 18 1/2 × 12 in 2025 Agosto Machado Jack (Altar) mixed media installation including Jack Smith’s objects and personal effects, paper lobster prop made by Smith, costume jewelry and peals, pin-back button, marble, toys, glitter, and textile; metal, plastic, glass, paper, and found objects; The Secret of Rented Island by Jack Smith poster (1976), U.S. quarters, dried flower, tinsel, shell, Capexio Tele Tone Tap shoe pieces, knife, Marlboro cigarette butt, Chinese joss paper, false eyelash, metal Mexican skeleton, paper garlands; original artwork by Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt 199.39 × 541.96 × 34.29 cm – 78 1/2 × 213 3/8 × 13 1/2 in 2025