Wolfgang Gallery Winter Exhibits (Tuesdays)

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Aineki Traverso, Narcissus' Pagoda

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, March 14, 2025 from 6-9 PM, EST

Wolfgang Gallery is pleased to present Narcissus’ Pagoda, a solo exhibition by Aineki Traverso that tethers historical, mythological, and personal narratives through painting and installation. This will be the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery.

Drawing inspiration from the myth of Narcissus, the exhibition delves into themes of observation, reflection, and performance. Narcissus’ Pagoda is an immersive, architectural dialogue between the subject and observer that focuses on the body of water that captures an unobtainable image. In this exhibition, the surface of the water serves as a lens, material, and performance object.

Within the gallery lies an on-site pagoda structure to serve as an allegory and vessel. Inside, reflections take on new significance, allowing viewers a deeply personal act of looking that bridges autobiography, perspective, and situational experience. Consisting of painting and installation, Narcissus’ Pagoda offers an intimate meditation on the intersections of myth, memory, and performance to immerse viewers in a landscape of the artist’s conception.

Aineki Traverso (b. 1991) is a painter based in Atlanta and a current resident in the Studio Artist Program at Atlanta Contemporary. She is a 2024 recipient of the Artadia Award as well as the foundation’s inaugural SEEN Award. Her work has most recently been exhibited in spaces such as Swan Coach House Gallery, Johnson Lowe, and Whitespace Gallery. Aineki has attended residencies at R&F Handmade Paints, Vermont Studio Center, Hambidge Center for Creative Arts, and VCCA. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 2013 with a concentration in film theory.

Celeste Morton

 
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Saj Issa, Poppy Paintings

Wolfgang Gallery is also pleased to announce that we will be featuring works by Saj Issa in our front gallery during the duration of Cultivate. SAJ ISSA is a Palestinian American artist born in Saint Louis and raised between the Midwest and West Bank, Palestine. She received her BFA from Webster University and her MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. Issa was one of three artists selected for the 2024 Great Rivers Biennial, which will open at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis in September and will include the artist's "Poppy Paintings" which has been presented in Artforum along with a portfolio of her practice. She has held residencies at the Belger Crane Yard Studios in Kansas City, MO, and Craft Alliance in Saint Louis. Issa was a recipient of the 2022 NCECA Graduate Student Fellowship. She has been featured in interviews with Hyperallergic, Juxtapoz, Khama, New American Paintings, the New Yorker, and Office Magazine.
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