EXHIBITIONS

May 17 - June 4, 2025

          Evolving Narratives inaugurates Improv Art Gallery with a meditation on artistic development, personal growth, and the quiet revolutions that unfold through time. This first exhibition embraces the idea that creation is not static—it is fluid, often unpredictable, and always in conversation with change. 

          The gallery's name—Improv—suggests a spirit of openness, experimentation, and responsiveness. These qualities are mirrored in the practices of the artists gathered here, each presenting work that reflects their evolving voice. Whether looking back on a former version of themselves, or projecting forward into new terrain, their contributions echo the gallery’s ethos: to remain in motion, responsive to the moment, and unafraid of risk. This exhibition doesn’t aim to define a fixed vision—it opens a space for uncertainty, reflection, and becoming. And in doing so, it sets the tone for what Improv Art Gallery aspires to be: a home for transformation, dialogue, and artistic courage.

June 14 - July 2, 2025

          We often believe our senses function independently, yet they entwine in ways that challenge what we consider possible—where seeing sounds and hearing colors reveal unexpected and fascinating connections. For visionary abstractionist and synaesthete Wassily Kandinsky, there is indeed a profound kinship between the visual and the aural. This is felt in the steady pulse of a beat, where vibrations ripple into patterns and movement—echoing the medley of lines and shapes across a canvas. Similarly, the placement of notes in a melody weave mood and tone, so too do colors and composition.

          Inspired by this multisensory exchange, Overture presents a curated selection of works guided and shaped by music, abstraction, and a reflection of the self. As the exhibition title suggests, it is not merely an exposé of artistic expressions, but an invitation for spectators to receive and further examine the permutations of sound, color, and shapes. For it is also through our sensory system that we come to make sense of our human experience.

June 14 - July 2, 2025

          What unfolds when the language of architecture breaks free from the blueprint and inhabits the wall as both structure and story? In Form & Space, conceptual artist Joe Bautista revisits his meditations on architecture and reveals a collection of works grounded in the physical and sensory qualities of spatial restraints (form) and the extensions of experience and activity (space). For Bautista, employing a mixed-media approach comes intuitively. He uses paint, wood, nails, bolts to bring tangible depth to each piece, while incorporating hand drawn elements like squiggles and lines to emphasize the tactile experience of space—mirroring land surfaces or topography. Some wood slats extend beyond the borders of the wooden canvases, floating off the wall like conceptual markers for spatial relationships, constrains, and boundaries. 

          The delicate integration of printed fragments—scaled drawings and spatial representations—is a subtle nod to Bautista’s advertising background and his fascination with the crossover between architecture and furniture-making. All of these elements push beyond the flat plane, creating works that are at once paintings, installations, collages, and narratives. Like layered blueprints transformed and brought to life, Form & Space illuminates' architecture as a living language—one that shapes not only the structures around us but how we feel, move, and imagine the very spaces we inhabit.