BY APPOINTMENT AND ONLINE View online: https://viewingroom.nightgallery.ca/viewing-room/kottie-paloma Night Gallery is pleased to present Dante, an exhibition of new paintings by Kottie Paloma. This is the artist’s first exhibition at Night Gallery. It is the first exhibition in the Triangle Gallery within our Downtown LA space, and will be accompanied by a virtual presentation in our Online Viewing Room through October 10th. Paloma’s paintings work within the confines of a single color to create compositions that move in and out of representation, alternating between suggestions of space, objects, symbols, and pure abstraction. These disparate elements come together in tight, puzzle-like constructions that offer multiple entry points for the viewer, finding coherence out of an assemblage of contradictory parts. The artist builds these works up from abstract experiments, finding legible forms through a process of drawing and scraping away, maintaining the looseness of his hand. The works straddle the line between graphic and expressionistic, employing sparing methods to create vividly psychological compositions that suggest landscapes of the unconscious. Paloma’s new series was inspired by the concept of the Bardo, an intermediary world between life and death. The exhibition is named after the famed poet of The Divine Comedy, whose journey into the afterlife reframed symbols across civilization. Paloma’s Dante offers the artist’s own journey into a purgatory of the dystopian imagination. For additional information, please contact info@nightgallery.ca. To make an appointment, please visit our scheduling page: https://nightgalleryappointments.as.me/schedule.php