Jonny Niesche
July 19 - September 7, 2025 | GW Contemporary, Laguna Beach
GW Contemporary’s inaugural exhibition, Lucent Ground, features works by Larry Bell, Laddie John Dill, Gary Lang, Heather Hutchison, Mark Whalen, Rosalind Tallmadge, Matthew Allen, Will Cooke, Jan Maarten Voskuil, and Line Busch. Lucent Ground explores surface, form, and visual experience - foregrounding artists whose works reward close looking. Subtle shifts in material and structure offer new ways of seeing, revealing a world where surfaces become thresholds, dimensionality is in flux, and structure and spontaneity exist in quiet tension.
Informed by movements such as Light and Space, minimalism, and post-minimal abstraction, the exhibition evokes a heightened sensitivity to light, texture, and the act of perception. Optical phenomena hover and recede; compositions unfold slowly, inviting a slowed way of looking - one attuned to nuance, reflection, and the physical presence of each object.