the shala - on the walls

. . . the gestured paintings function as localized windows of subjective structure and exposed breakdown. the hope is that this body of paintings will offer a proposition of reality, as opposed to a representation of it. by reinvesting in modernist strategies of abstraction, such as driving shapes, decorative hues, and angles, i hope to place these concerns in the contemporary moment, with the goal of recuperating the utopian gestures of modernism for our anti-utopian historical moment. . . .
— lindsay august-salazar