ALLGORITHIM is pleased to announce Layered, with an opening reception on Friday, May 8th from 6 to 9 pm at ALLGORITHIM House.
Layered brings together seventeen artists whose practices share a common formal and philosophical proposition: that meaning accumulates. The exhibition takes as its premise the act of layering itself, not as technique alone, but as a way of thinking. Of ideology built upon ideology. Of identity formed through the sediment of experience. Of color and mark arriving on a surface already weighted with intention, already in conversation with everything that came before it.
To layer is to refuse resolution. It is to hold contradiction, to allow the underpainting to show through, to let one idea interrupt another without demanding that either surrender. The works in this exhibition operate in that space of productive tension: between the legible and the obscured, the conscious and the subconscious, the personal and the universal. What is revealed is never the whole picture. What is concealed is never entirely gone.
Works by Thomas Stokes III, Vincent Lantzy, Connor Meager, Zoë Renait, Jess Kellner, Samuel Elliot Phillips, Piper Olivas, and Katarina Holbrough are presented alongside newcomers Dylan Anthony Roworth, Sarah Savior, Gaëthan Henrioux, Adam Brierley, Ricardo Rodriguez, Austin Santangelo, Deb Santangelo, Brad Johns, Fiona Aagaard and Preston Douglas Boyer.
Across painting and mixed media, Layered resists singular reading. Each work arrives carrying its own history of marks, revisions, and intentions. Together, they form something less like a group exhibition and more like a conversation that has been ongoing, one the viewer steps into mid-sentence.
Layered opens Friday, May 8th at ALLGORITHIM House. More announcements to come.