JAKUPSIL

Recently founded in New York City, HIERRO is an artist-driven curatorial platform dedicated to short-term exhibitions of consequence. Our ethos is built around the longstanding history of artists who self-organize with the desire of questioning traditional modes of showing work. We imagine ourselves as a painters’ punk rock band channeling a DIY sensibility.

A Short Lived Torture of Cacophony is its first exhibition, organized by Jorge Rios, with a focus on contemporary post-painterly abstraction that rejects symbolism and interpretation in favor of a direct visual experience. The exhibition features works by Michelle Brandemuehl, Ron Ewert, Jorge Rios and Benjamin Lee Sperry.

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Michelle Brandemuehl

Brandemuehl's work is a conversation about the whatness of people, places, and things. Relying on restraint and minimal form as a point of entry, the practice explores the relationship between subtlety and the sublime. Central to the work is an interest in the qualities of opposites and how two opposing forces can coexist within the same space—an inquiry expressed through material choices such as the grit of spray paint on linen, black on white, the defined lines of a rectangle, and the soft glow of fog. Each object emerges as a response to these contradictions, transforming in their presence. The chosen materials and structural elements form an emotional architecture that invites viewers into a dialogue about paradox. Recent works expand this inquiry into imagined landscapes of outer space, framed by the metaphor of a window—its border both a threshold and a limit—prompting questions about perception, illusion, and the potential of the unseen.

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Ron Ewert

Coming soon.

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Jorge Rios 

Rios' paintings are driven by process and grounded in the history of abstraction. Combining gestural brushstrokes, drips, and stains with graphic elements such as grids and patterns, the work employs highly saturated pigments across large-scale canvases and paper. These contrasting techniques embody divergent approaches to abstraction—juxtaposing fast and slow mark-making, soft and hard edges, and accident with intention. Central to the practice is an investigation into the coexistence of opposing forces: artifice, in the form of illusion and construction, and truth, through emotion and sincerity.

The work ultimately seeks to blur the boundary between aesthetic trickery and artistic honesty. Eschewing repetition in favor of stylistic variety, the artist resists a fixed visual identity. Each painting becomes a kind of funhouse mirror, reflecting a range of artistic movements and sensibilities while maintaining a sense of play and ongoing jest.

Benjamin Lee Sperry

Coming soon.​​

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