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Six
Chapter NY is pleased to present Six, a group exhibition featuring works by Vicky Colombet, Stuart Middleton, Valerio Nicolai, Yutaka Nozawa, Minh Lan Tran, and Alix Vernet. The exhibition explores states of perception, embodiment, and transformation. Across painting, sculpture, video, and drawing, the six artists reflect on the act of shaping, whether by human or environmental forces, emphasizing a continual state of becoming.
Stuart Middleton鈥檚 graphite drawings belong to an ongoing series based on photographs of industrial meat processing machinery. They transform functional mechanisms into imaginary architectures, suggesting everything from Futurist prototypes to science fiction landscapes. Seen from the viewpoint of the processed, the works conjure an uncanny, visceral space鈥攂oth coldly mechanical and disturbingly organic鈥攅xtending Middleton鈥檚 long-standing inquiry into the abstraction of the body in modern systems of labor, consumption, and control.
Abstract paintings by Vicky Colombet embody the artist鈥檚 meditative relationship to process and meticulous brushwork. Her atmospheric surfaces evoke elemental forces鈥攂reaking ice, dissolving forms, geological drift鈥攕uggesting the invisible rhythms and transformations of the natural world. Colombet鈥檚 practice emerges from a deep engagement with landscape, natural pigments, and quantum theory, cultivating a vision of abstraction rooted in stillness and flux. In Quantum Gold Fields (2025), she introduces gold pigment into her expanding body of work.
With a focus on resistance, ritual, and political embodiment, Minh Lan Tran鈥檚 painting embraces language and movement as co-constitutive forces. Drawing from her background in calligraphy, theology, and choreography, Tran composes works that trace physical intensities, with gestures referencing spiritual-political actions鈥攆rom protest chants to self-immolations鈥攆oregrounding embodiment over representation.
By shifting perspectives, Yutaka Nozawa quietly disrupts conventional perceptions of time and space. Diptychs from his ongoing CANVAS series include one painting depicting a blank canvas installed in an interior space paired with a photograph of the same canvas painted to portray the setting in which it hangs. These works engage with still life conventions, offering a subtle and humorous meditation on seeing, representation, and the fluidity of perception. Nozawa also includes li (2025), a durational video of a bird resting on top of a post, captured over an extended period of time.
Valerio Nicolai鈥檚 paintings of imagined structures draw from the visual languages of still life, architecture, and absurdist narrative. Fusing elements of humor and drama, Nicolai鈥檚 canvases depict surreal spaces populated by castle-like constructions. His deadpan imagery complicates art historical tropes, embedding allegories of decay, doubt, and regeneration into every constructed scene. These are paintings that wobble between the banal and the eternal, the poetic and the grotesque.
For her ongoing series of Heat Exchange Poems, Alix Vernet makes floor and wall-based sculptures with repurposed AC unit condensers. The backs of AC units become surfaces for tactile inscription, bearing found and added marks: scratches, tags, smudges, handprints. These traces function like accidental archives鈥� a body, a prayer, a memory. By staging these altered objects in the gallery, Vernet reanimates the condenser as both a transient summer relic and a fossilized site of urban encounters.
Together, the works in Six propose a mutable world in which matter, perception, and form remain open to transformation. In this space of continuous re-making, each artist traces how we are shaped and how we shape in return.
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Chapter NY is pleased to present Six, a group exhibition featuring works by Vicky Colombet, Stuart Middleton, Valerio Nicolai, Yutaka Nozawa, Minh Lan Tran, and Alix Vernet. The exhibition explores states of perception, embodiment, and transformation. Across painting, sculpture, video, and drawing, the six artists reflect on the act of shaping, whether by human or environmental forces, emphasizing a continual state of becoming.
Stuart Middleton鈥檚 graphite drawings belong to an ongoing series based on photographs of industrial meat processing machinery. They transform functional mechanisms into imaginary architectures, suggesting everything from Futurist prototypes to science fiction landscapes. Seen from the viewpoint of the processed, the works conjure an uncanny, visceral space鈥攂oth coldly mechanical and disturbingly organic鈥攅xtending Middleton鈥檚 long-standing inquiry into the abstraction of the body in modern systems of labor, consumption, and control.
Abstract paintings by Vicky Colombet embody the artist鈥檚 meditative relationship to process and meticulous brushwork. Her atmospheric surfaces evoke elemental forces鈥攂reaking ice, dissolving forms, geological drift鈥攕uggesting the invisible rhythms and transformations of the natural world. Colombet鈥檚 practice emerges from a deep engagement with landscape, natural pigments, and quantum theory, cultivating a vision of abstraction rooted in stillness and flux. In Quantum Gold Fields (2025), she introduces gold pigment into her expanding body of work.
With a focus on resistance, ritual, and political embodiment, Minh Lan Tran鈥檚 painting embraces language and movement as co-constitutive forces. Drawing from her background in calligraphy, theology, and choreography, Tran composes works that trace physical intensities, with gestures referencing spiritual-political actions鈥攆rom protest chants to self-immolations鈥攆oregrounding embodiment over representation.
By shifting perspectives, Yutaka Nozawa quietly disrupts conventional perceptions of time and space. Diptychs from his ongoing CANVAS series include one painting depicting a blank canvas installed in an interior space paired with a photograph of the same canvas painted to portray the setting in which it hangs. These works engage with still life conventions, offering a subtle and humorous meditation on seeing, representation, and the fluidity of perception. Nozawa also includes li (2025), a durational video of a bird resting on top of a post, captured over an extended period of time.
Valerio Nicolai鈥檚 paintings of imagined structures draw from the visual languages of still life, architecture, and absurdist narrative. Fusing elements of humor and drama, Nicolai鈥檚 canvases depict surreal spaces populated by castle-like constructions. His deadpan imagery complicates art historical tropes, embedding allegories of decay, doubt, and regeneration into every constructed scene. These are paintings that wobble between the banal and the eternal, the poetic and the grotesque.
For her ongoing series of Heat Exchange Poems, Alix Vernet makes floor and wall-based sculptures with repurposed AC unit condensers. The backs of AC units become surfaces for tactile inscription, bearing found and added marks: scratches, tags, smudges, handprints. These traces function like accidental archives鈥� a body, a prayer, a memory. By staging these altered objects in the gallery, Vernet reanimates the condenser as both a transient summer relic and a fossilized site of urban encounters.
Together, the works in Six propose a mutable world in which matter, perception, and form remain open to transformation. In this space of continuous re-making, each artist traces how we are shaped and how we shape in return.
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