UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
KATY ANN GILMORE
Dimensional Constructs
May 17 - June 28, 2025
Reception: Saturday, May 17
Los Angeles, CA — CMAY Gallery is pleased to present Los Angeles-based artist Katy Ann Gilmore in her first solo exhibition at the gallery.
Internationally recognized for her large-scale murals commissioned by companies such as Google, Facebook, Uber, Hermès, and Vans, Gilmore now turns her attention inward, unveiling a bold new series of dimensional paintings that marks a significant evolution in her artistic practice in her upcoming exhibition, Dimensional Constructs.
Departing from her earlier focus on line-based spatial illusions, Gilmore’s new work explores how color itself can generate depth and form. Composed on shaped Dibond panels, these paintings use color relationships to build space, suggesting volume and movement through chromatic interaction rather than drawn geometry. The result is a vibrant visual language that transforms the perception of two-dimensional surfaces into three-dimensional experience.
Gilmore’s practice is rooted in drawing, structure, and systems. Inspired by natural landscapes and architectural constructs, she reduces complex environments into ordered visual frameworks that engage both logic and perception. Her background in both mathematics and fine art informs a unique methodology that balances rigor and intuition—often employing graphs, equations, and mathematical models as the foundation for her compositions.
In this new body of work, the shaped panels are not just supports but integral to the illusion of dimensionality. Cut in response to the internal geometry of the painting itself, the forms appear to emerge from or recede into the gallery wall, collapsing the divide between object and image.
Central to this evolution is Gilmore’s deep engagement with color theory, particularly Josef Albers’ influential book, Interaction of Color. Like Albers, Gilmore is fascinated by the perceptual effects created by juxtaposed hues—how color relationships can shift form, define structure, and reshape spatial awareness. Through meticulous layering and thoughtful construction, her paintings become investigations into how we interpret space through visual cues.
Gilmore’s work continues to draw from scientific and philosophical frameworks, asking how we see and understand the world around us. While her aesthetic is clean and precise, her questions are expansive: What is space? How do we perceive dimension? Can systems generate emotion?
For more information please contact CMAY Gallery:
5828 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036 info@cmaygallery.com www.cmaygallery.com
CHINA ADAMS
Poles, Walkers and a Black Sheep
May 17 - June 28, 2025
Reception: Saturday, May 17
Los Angeles, CA — CMAY Gallery is please to present China Adams’ latest exhibition, Poles, Walkers and a Black Sheep. It brings together two distinct yet intertwined bodies of work, each investigating what we lean on—physically, socially, and culturally—as our systems falter. Known for engaging with materials and ideas often cast aside or overlooked, Adams continues her exploration— considering infrastructure, buttressing, and inevitable decline.
One series features meticulously economized drawings of utility poles— some rendered in micron pen and pencil, others in pencil and gouache. Stripped of background, the drawings heighten the poles’ uncanny geometry as they slice the sky. These everyday structures—often coated in tar, plastered with old staples and rusting metal—are drawn with delicate precision. Adams’ choice to frame these gritty relics as subjects of beauty, elevates the mundane, while underscoring their fragility. As functional as they are outdated, utility poles today are paradoxical symbols: they connect us, while at the same time they are aging relics, increasingly implicated in climate-related disasters like wildfires.
In dialogue with these drawings is a sculptural series, merging geriatric walkers with painted and sewn canvas. These hybrid forms bend, sag, and shift with each installation. The canvas—brightly colored and striped, stitched tightly yet flexible—engages in a conversation of balance and tension with its metallic, walker frame. Yellow hues and circus-like motifs, straddle warning and whimsy, evoking both the grotesque and the celebratory. Each piece carries a personality; the interplay of color, weight, and form determines how canvas and walker support—or strain—each other.
Together, these works propose a meditation on the nature of support: the poles carry the burden of modern infrastructure, while the walkers prop up aging bodies. Both are scaffolds for systems in decline. Adams positions the walker sculptures as contemporary memento mori—artifacts that quietly remind us of aging, entropy, and the uncomfortable truths we often look away from. There is a conflict at the heart of the exhibition: between structure and collapse, the rigid and the yielding, function and failure.
With Poles, Walkers and a Black Sheep, China Adams invites viewers to contemplate the fragile architectures that hold us up—and what happens when those structures can no longer bear the weight.
For more information please contact CMAY Gallery:
5828 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036 info@cmaygallery.com www.cmaygallery.com