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May 26 - Jun 20 2026 - 25 days left

The Painting Center is pleased to present Days Folded, a solo exhibition by Nichole Gronvold Roller in the Project Room. The exhibition will run from May 26–June 20, 2026, with an opening reception on Thursday, May 28 from 5 to 8 pm. Days Folded is a recent series of paintings by Gronvold Roller that responds to the discord between the beauty and tedium of daily routines. Moving through familiar spaces, the artist selects snippets of layered observations. Depicting shifting light, patterned wallpaper, and how textiles soften a room's hard edges, Gronvold Roller reflects on the complexities of one's impressions of lived-in spaces. Mindful of how the body navigates the constrictions and expansions of a home, the bending and folding of planes guide through these implied physical movements, just as memory condenses and unfolds our sense of home. Blending geometric abstraction with organic motifs, these works weave together hard-edge geometric abstraction and reference to the Pattern and Decoration movement, celebrating the plurality of these traditions. Born in the 1970s, the artist's earliest visual language was shaped by the bold patterns and vibrant colors of the era's interior design. The shaped canvases reflect the influence of designers such as William Morris, David Hicks, Marimekko, and Orla Kiely, as well as the history of wallpaper and the House of Hackney collections. Interpreting fragments of domestic architecture, Days Folded focuses on the intersection of design and retrospection of the places we inhabit. Nichole Gronvold Roller is a painter based in Illinois whose works encompass pattern, geometry, and the visual language of residential architecture. She holds a BFA in Art Education from Minnesota State University Moorhead, an MA in Art Education from Boston University, and an MFA in Painting from Bradley University. Gronvold Roller has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Dubuque Museum of Art (IA), Spartanburg Art Museum (SC), Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts (WI), Buckham Gallery (MI), Rockport Center for the Arts (TX), and upcoming BoxHeart Gallery (PA). Recent residencies include the Mudhouse Artist Residency (Greece), Everwood Farmstead Foundation Artist Retreat (WI), and Chateau d'Orquevaux Artist Residency (France). In addition to her studio practice, Gronvold Roller is an art educator and a writer for the Inland Art column with Community Word (IL). She is represented by BoxHeart Gallery (PA), Gilded Pear Gallery (IA), J. Nunez Gallery (NJ), and Banz Studios (OH). For more information on the artist, visit: www.nicholesgallery.com and @gronvold_roller.

May 26 - Jun 20 2026 - 25 days left

The Painting Center is pleased to present Hole in Mouth, a solo exhibition by Julian Pozzi in the Main Gallery. The exhibition will run from May 26–June 20, 2026, with an opening reception on Thursday, May 28 from 5 to 8 pm. Julian Pozzi’s most recent work takes as its basis a practice of drawing into painting. His latest exhibition works within a framework of a structural abstraction built from a drawing and mark-making vocabulary developed over two decades. The 15 paintings in Hole in Mouth allude to a space occupied both by the body and its discontents. The architectural and the organic often switch places only to resume their original position a few paintings later. Many of the works depict a fragility verging on collapse, or else show what seems to be the moments after disaster. The mark-making can vary and travel widely; what might begin as an incremental and patient cross-hatching can quickly lose its way and end up at the other end of the painting, fully submerged in and/or transformed by surprising pools of rich color, frankly formal and celebrating themselves. This incessant push and pull (or, more precisely, overlap) between the built and the collapsed helps give the paintings an aesthetic charge that favors both beginnings and endings, often postponing or even skipping the middle entirely. While negotiating these two poles, Pozzi's canvases still manage to come to a resolution (or at least a place of rest a few steps ahead of an unfinished state). The paintings profit by just stopping short of being overworked in order to achieve a delicate, not-quite-equal equilibrium. Julian Pozzi earned a BFA at the University of Texas at Austin and an MFA at CalArts. He’s had solo shows at Jeff Bailey Gallery (NY), 1234 Gallery (CA) and Songs For Presidents (NY). He has had group shows at White Columns (NY) and Atelier Cardenas Bellanger (Paris), among other venues. His work has been written about and reviewed in the New York Times and Particules journal, and he has had residencies at Jentel Artist Residency (WY), SIM Artist Residency (Iceland) and the Vermont Studio Center. He lives and works in Queens, NY. For more information on the artist, visit: www.julianpozzi.com and @julian_pozzi. View Catalogue: Pozzi.PDF