A lone white figure sits enthroned at the threshold of Raúl de Nieves’ As Far As UUU Take Me. With imposing vestments recalling tawdry wares in a window display, it exudes an air of ambiguity between nightlife effigy and bardo intermediary.
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Seven square panels executed in color field preside over the gallery wall. A human mask emerges from each, a persona –– at once spatially prominent and tonally vague.
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Ascending skyward, a stained glass window encompasses the entirety of the gallery ceiling. Its scale is intended as an extension beyond the confines of the material continuum and the limiting notions of the self.
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