Thomas Brambilla Gallery is pleased to announce the second solo show of American artist John Torreano (b. 1941), opening on January 25th, 2025.

This exhibition showcases Torreano's explorations with recent examples of his wood columns and round-edged canvas paintings.

His work breaks from the traditional idea of painting, as a window into or container of meaning. These columns and paintings incorporate his signature use of acrylic gems which add an alluring layer to the work. They offer glistening points that co-operate with the viewer’s movement.

This makes for a visually personal experience as each angle offers a new facet unique to each person's point-of-view. Thus, meaning is not "decoded or interpreted" from the work but results from a visually particular, inthe-moment perception.

Inspired by his fascination with the cosmos and its imagery, Torreano's paintings invite viewers to have a more visceral engagement with those unimaginably distant and fantastical objects. The canvases and columns push outward into the gallery to create an immediate and tangible physical presence. The gems reflect light that shifts and adapts reaffirming, for each viewer, their unique position within the gallery space and, by extension, the rest of the world.

Meaning is not fixed or contained in the object, rather it emerges from a dialogue as each viewer becomes author of the experience.

John Torreano (b.1941, Flint, MI) has exhibited his works extensively since the late 1960s including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C, the Indianapolis Museum of Fine Arts and many others. He received his BFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art (1963), and his MFA from Ohio State University (1967) where he studied perception as it relates to painting with Hoyt L. Sherman and Robert King.

Torreano’s work is included in several museums and institutions’ collections, such as: Parrish Museum, Southampton NY, McCarren International Airport, Las Vegas NV, Chase Manhattan Bank, New York NY, Bank One, Minneapolis MN, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis IN, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, The Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills MI, The Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids MI, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, La Foret Museum, Harajuku, Japan, Foundation Villa Rufolo, Amalfi, Italy, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo NY, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton OH, Eli Broad Foundation, Los Angeles CA, Norton Gallery of Art, Palm Beach FL, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA, Honolulu Museum of Contemporary Art, Honolulu HI, Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver CO, Herb and Dorothy Vogel Collection, New York NY, Frederick Weisman Collection, Los Angeles CA, Contemporary Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX.