Naranjo 141, "Thresholds: Part 1", Mexico City, February 28 - March 31, 2025
Olympia, "Thresholds: Part 2", New York, NY, April 3 - May 3, 2025
NARANJO 141 is pleased to present Thresholds: Part I, the first iteration of a two-part exhibition jointly held with Olympia, New York, bringing together works by Lily Alice Baker, Colleen Herman, Lee Maxey, Katarina Riesing, and Pauline Shaw. Thresholds: Part I opens in Mexico City on February 27, 2025, followed by Thresholds: Part II in New York on April 3, 2025.
Thresholds brings together five artists who explore the liminal spaces we navigate in our daily, familial, spiritual, and creative lives. Some depict figures and environments in moments of transformation, while others embrace the transcending qualities of uncertainty. Through oil on canvas, egg tempera on panel, dye on intimately woven textiles, and graphite on paper, the exhibition centers a commonality of pushing boundaries within chosen mediums to deepen our understanding of self and surroundings.
Lee Maxey’s dramatically cropped paintings capture the paranoia and transformative potential of everyday objects and portals, leaving us in suspense—unable to unbolt the latch, tip the domino, or turn the knob frozen within the picture plane. Katarina Riesing’s embroidered silk works meditate on the unease between body and garment, revealing imperfections that complicate idealized notions of adornment. In Pauline Shaw’s dyed felt compositions, textile patterns, scientific imagery, and organic forms converge, gesturing toward a new vernacular. Lily Alice Baker’s paintings offer glimpses of queer joy poised to break through the patriarchal confines of the barroom, while in Colleen Herman’s abstract works, gestural brushstrokes verge on summoning ethereal portals.
Though each artist’s visual language is distinctly their own, Thresholds brings us to conceptual, pictorial, and painterly edges where discomfort becomes a site of resonance.