Eric Firestone Gallery is pleased to announce RAW: a wide-ranging group exhibition of 17 contemporary, inter-generational and multinational artists. The exhibition addresses the theme of rawness in an expansive manner. Some work is painted on unprimed linen or canvas. Other works use raw materials from nature, or incorporate materials of consumer culture without masking their original appearance. Still others utilize the raw geometric building blocks of abstraction, or stylized forms that express specific cultural understandings.

Javier Arce’s (b. 1973) oil paintings depict vivid natural scenes of trees and blooming wildflowers. His canvases are stretched on irregular repurposed untreated wood sourced from the artist’s countryside environment in Cantabria, Spain.