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In I鈥檓 OK, You鈥檙e OK, Nikko Mueller presents a new body of work exploring patterns, systems, and transformations through the formal language of color and geometric abstraction. In an unobstructed nod to Frank Stella and Joseph Albers, Mueller鈥檚 paintings and painted objects begin with simple prescribed devices: fundamental divisions of the field and diagrammatic forms with direct visual logics. These initial relationships between context, image, and canvas are then confronted by tectonic disruption, mutation, and reconciliation鈥攔evealing compromised compositions that are cheekily human in their condition. Mueller鈥檚 formalism is informed by a political sensibility. The pieces examine and reconsider the underlying structures and dynamics of abstraction. The exhibition鈥檚 title is appropriated from Thomas Harris鈥� popular self-help book on Transactional Analysis. I鈥檓 OK, You鈥檙e OK serves as substrate for Mueller鈥檚 investigation into how formal relationships adapt, persist, and deform/transform in the face of change.