FORM AND SPACE

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.