Abstract Geometries · Christopher Ronk, Jenene Nagy, and DA·MA

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November 7, 2026 | 4–8PM

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In Abstract Geometries, symbols are buoyant and colors are pronounced. More than mere marks on a surface, these can be construed as living objects that affect the frame in which they exist and the environment in which they hang, as well as their witness. Across the selected works of Christopher Ronk, Jenene Nagy, and DA·MA, choice of substrate and mark-making technique builds tension around how certain lines and shapes are articulated, whether haphazard, meticulous, or repeated across canvases. When pared back, the elements comprising a painting suddenly become more present. Each choice contains a question, and the answers begin to tell a story about the individuals and our shared world, with some work alluding to natural landscapes and others to the mathematics inherent in familiar calligraphies of shape and sequence.

Christopher Ronk is finding order in a chaotic world. Working with acrylic and mixed media on treated burlap, Ronk creates abstract, minimalist compositions with precise geometric forms against richly textured, often expressive surfaces. The contrast is deliberate: clean edges and controlled shapes meet the irregularity of the material, while color, repetition, asymmetry, and open space create a dynamic balance between restraint and energy. He currently works in a studio built by the late Steve Rieman in Flamingo Heights, California.

Jenene Nagy is interested in the transformative potential of repetition: how simple materials, actions, and forms can produce something greater than their component parts. Each mark she makes builds on the one before, culminating in something beyond our physical understanding of this world. Her investment in the fundamentals extends to the viewer, whom she invites to experience the work through the simple act of looking, and to acknowledge their place in time as they contemplate an accrual. There is a rewarding slowness here, in both the making and the viewing. Nagy lives and works in the Inland Empire region of Southern California.

DA•MA is an Italian queer artist whose work explores identity, self-expression, and the strength that comes from showing up as your full self. With a background in philosophy and printmaking, and drawing from their lived experience and a deep connection to nature, they work across a range of mediums and printmaking techniques, using color, shapes, and transparencies to evoke mood, memory, and emotion. Their work holds softness and strength, vulnerability and resilience with care, and it makes room for reflection, listening, and voices too often pushed to the edges. They are currently based in London.