EDGES OF ATTENTION

Edges of Attention brings together the work of Javier Arizmendi-Kalb and Susana Arias in a shared exploration of structure, gesture, and the threshold between control and intuition. Across painting and sculpture, the exhibition engages in a spatial dialogue where perception shifts—where what is seen directly is only part of what is felt.

Arizmendi-Kalb’s large-scale paintings, each rising to six feet in height, operate as immersive environments rather than images, occupying space with both physical authority and emotional immediacy. Suggesting refracted light and architectural spaces, planes of color, linear scaffolding, and gestural marks collide and cohere, hovering between construction and improvisation.

In conversation with these expansive canvases, ceramic sculptures from Susana Arias’ Tree Series rise from four to over six feet tall. These works do not depict trees; they extract their presence. Minimal yet grounded, they quietly shape and divide the surrounding space while rings, joints, and variations in surface suggest time embedded within the material, evoking cycles of growth without literal narrative.

Together, the works create a field of attention that oscillates between the structural and the emotive, the grounded and the atmospheric. The paintings stretch laterally and outward, while the sculptures insist on vertical presence, forming a spatial rhythm that activates movement and awareness, drawing attention to how we inhabit space: visually, physically, and psychologically.