R.B.Stevenson Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition “Here & Now” featuring new and recent paintings by San Diego artist Wayne Hulgin and Los Angeles artist Chris Trueman. The opening reception for the artists will be on Saturday August 22, from 5 - 8pm. The gallery will be open at noon for early viewing.

Chris Trueman draws from a diverse lexicon of mark making including gestural painting, graffiti, colour field and with deftly nuanced colour palette, these paintings speak to a merger between organic and synthetic, and a cultural sensibility which indulges equally in artificial as the natural. By conceptually appropriating formal vocabularies from various painting traditions he creates visual and physical tensions that amplify the material ambiguity and allude to a synthesis of visual language from high art to pop to urban culture.

Wayne Hulgin paintings are the visual language of mark making, shape and form, refined surfaces, bold color and nuanced edges, rendered silent by the delicately diffused obfuscation of the process that challenges visual communication and expands abstraction’s possibilities.

Due to the Covid-19 we are taking all of the necessary precautions recommended by the State of California and the Centers for Disease Control to ensure the safety of visitors and staff.