(Upcoming) Aineki Traverso, Narcissus' Pagoda
Image: Aineki Traverso, to touch the sky with two arms, 2024, Oil and pastel on panel
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, March 14, 2025 from 6-9 PM, EST
Wolfgang Gallery is pleased to present Narcissus' Pagoda, a solo exhibition by 2024 Artadia winner, Aineki Traverso. Narcissus' Pagoda. In Narcissus’ Pagoda, Aineki tethers historical, mythological, and personal narratives through painting and installation.
The mythical Narcissus, enshrouded in prophecy, negotiates his desire and obsession as he grasps at the water’s surface. He is devoured by his own reflection and survived by a bloom on shore, the remnant of an unrequited love. In this exhibition, the relationship between an individual and a painting is echoed in a simplified pagoda, itself an abyss of autobiography, nature, storytelling, and materiality. Both inside and outside of the structure, reflections provide a particular and intimate act of looking.
While weaving personal narrative, Traverso's paintings speak to a mode of preservation through different styles of rendering, and the act of mark-making as a way to communicate memory and denote the passage of time. Her work references the flora, humans, and landscapes of her life to suggest new social settings or methods of care for self and others in the midst of overconsumption.
Aineki Traverso (b. 1991) is a painter based in Atlanta and a current resident in the Studio Artist Program at Atlanta Contemporary. She uses the rhetoric of painting to find ways of reconciling a world and society that exist in a state of post-environmentalism, borne of climate change and advancing technology. Her work has most recently been exhibited in spaces such as Swan Coach House Gallery, Johnson Lowe, and Whitespace Gallery. Aineki has attended residencies at R&F Handmade Paints, Vermont Studio Center, Hambidge Center for Creative Arts, and VCCA. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 2013 with a concentration in film theory.
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