Exhibitions

WENDY WALKER SILVERMAN: A BRIEF PAUSE BETWEEN TWO MYSTERIES

Tinney Contemporary / 237 Rep. John Lewis Way, N. November 21, 2025 - January 3, 2026 (Reception: December 13 6:00pm - 9:00pm)

Wendy Walker Silverman

Tinney Contemporary is proud to present A Brief Pause Between Two Mysteries, a solo exhibition featuring new paintings by local artist Wendy Walker Silverman. The exhibition will be on display from November 21, 2025 through January 3, 2026. The reception will be on Saturday, December 13, from 6 to 9 PM.

Silverman’s paintings feature hard-edge forms that shift and tessellate across the surface of the canvas. The artist repeats, reflects, and transforms shapes in dynamic compositions that reference architecture and environment. This process is guided by intuition, an exploratory approach to abstraction inextricable from the artist’s personal meditative practice. Through this carefully-ordered geometry, traces of the artist’s hand remain by virtue of her fluid, responsive approach to composition.

Carried out in her own always-evolving color palette, the forms seem to vibrate by virtue of an Albersian color interaction. By exploiting various acrylic mediums and varied opacities, Silverman further complicates these color relations through transparent top layers which allow the history of paint to shine through. This pentimento deepens the shifting composition and color interaction, yielding an inviting sense of depth—distinct from the flatness that is emphasized in much geometric painting.

This dynamism invites the viewer to play at pareidolia. What do you see? Vague impressions at first—but the longer you look, things begin to take shape: structures, landscapes, figures. Eyes, ears, arms. The sun setting over the sea, afterimage burned into your retinas, still there when you shut your eyes.