WHAT

A group exhibition of four artists based in different cities working in the expanded field of painting and abstraction, the works of Paul Barlow, Harminder Judge, Osamu Kobayashi, and Andrew Luk are presented. Painting in the manner of sculptor, builder, archeologist, and designer, these artists inhabit the precarious balance between stability and entropy, ideation and abstraction, optimism and nihilism.

WHY

Two key themes prevail: the uncertainty of being, and the primacy of action despite. The works exhibit subtle and intentional marks left behind by the artist’s hands and body, manifested through dynamic gestures of control and release, with each work promising ‘new beginnings’, and hence the title.