Dorian Büchi & Richard Burton & Pepe Dominguez & Tomas Harker & Chloe West

The colours of the palette flirt with a monochrome that almost freezes the scenes in an absence of life, however maintaining particular atmospheres emanating an unearthly glow of which the artist has such ready command.

Richard Burton (B. 1984, King’s Lynn) studied at the Royal College of Art (2019-2021) and Slade School of Fine Arts (2004-2008). He is the recipient of the Abbey Fellowship in Painting, British School at Rome (2022). Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Taymour Grahne Projects in London and Galerie Norbert Arns in Cologne.

Tomas Harker’s painting address the nature of meaning in conditions of mediated experience and hyperreal saturation. Sources are treated indiscriminately of hierarchical values, collected from varied systems of image production and distribution. These include film screen shots, iPhone photos, art history and social media.

Born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and based in St-Louis, Chloe West explores the depictions of the nude figure and its relation to the spaces it inhabits. She paints the complexion and surfaces of exposed flesh in moments of intimacy, her raw tones evoking the bliss or pain of these instants. She takes her repertoire from the Medieval and Renaissance eras, Dutch and Flemish painting in particular, as well as the cadaverous iconographies found in memento mori and vanitas paintings. The gentleness and precision with which the human figure is rendered testifies to the generosity and levity of the painter, as well as to the irrefutable compassion for traditional craft and art history.

Chloe West (B. 1993, Cheyenne, WY) received a BFA from the University of Wyoming in 2015, and a MFA from Washington University in 2017. Chloe’s work was recently showed at Jack Siebert Projects and on the occasion of a solo show at Harper’s Apartment in New York.

Dorian Büchi depicts the essence of plant life through a semblance of portraiture, landscape and still life. The artist choses a return to a traditional mode of expression to deal with a contemporary issue; our relationship to the natural world and the value it holds. He immerses the viewer into a parallel landscape with peculiar scenes where compositions have been stripped from any human life, emphasizing our disconnection in an otherwise connected world.

Considered as a member of the New Spanish Figuration, Pepe Dominguez is a Seville-based artist focusing on painting and researching the qualities and strategies of the medium itself. The artist presents compositions of marks and impressions such as strokes, letters, erasures and shapes, resulting in rich textures. Following an intuitive mechanism nourished by sensations and memories, his search around the image tries to avoid an obvious visual story, where other issues prevail such as the game between the apparent and the hidden. His search for a pictorial ideal leads to an almost total simplification of the image where the concrete and the abstract coexist.

Pepe Dominguez (B. 1997, Alcalá de Guadaira, Seville) studied Fine Arts at the University of Seville (2015-2019). Recent exhibitions include solo shows at El Chico in Madrid, as well as institutional exhibitions at the Palacio del Almirante in Grenada and Museo De Huelva.