Eric Firestone Gallery unveils 'Couples' featuring 26 artist pairs

Eric Firestone Gallery is presenting Couples, an exhibition of work by 26 artist partners. A throughline in the exhibition is artwork that visualizes component parts, distinct but coming together into a whole. This aesthetic becomes a metaphor for connection, partnership, and individuals belonging to a larger community and consciousness. Many of these abstract paintings and sculptures suggest the bridging of spaces between personhood, the digital world, and the cosmos. Historic work by three artist-couples associated with American Surrealism are included: Jeanne Reynal and Thomas Sills; Luchita Hurtado and Lee Mullican; Madge Knight and Charles Houghton Howard. Hurtado’s work fuses abstraction, landscape, and the body. Reynal used individual hand-cut mosaic tiles to create topographic and resonant surfaces – a parallel to Mullican’s vibratory