FUTURA 2020 - Eric Firestone Gallery

FUTURA 2020 accompanies FUTURA 2000's inaugural exhibition at Eric Firestone Gallery, New York (October 22 - December 23, 2020) and marks his representation by the gallery. With over 30 color plates, including custom fluorescent printing, installation images, studio photographs and an essay by Carter Ratcliff, the catalog focuses on recent paintings by FUTURA2000 and documents his first New York gallery exhibition in 30 years.

Twenty new paintings in the show are made with raw unprimed canvas in an elegant, subdued palette. Earthy tones of black, umber, gray and white are punctuated with unexpected shimmers of gold or bursts of color. Larger works are compositions of FUTURA2000’s sprayed atoms,framed within a defined space. Smaller square canvases in the same somber palette solely utilize brushwork. Another group is distinctly contracted with brighter colors or darker grounds, tracing forms that pull the viewers’ eye off the edges of the canvas in a dynamic, open composition.