George Huon
Solaris
May 8th – 30th, 2026
These small works were developed intuitively over an extended period, emerging through a process of accumulation, revision, and abandonment. Many began as still life paintings before shifting into more ambiguous, suggestive forms that sit on the surface, baring traces of earlier, unresolved compositions beneath. As fragments of a larger, ongoing project, they operate both as a means of addressing and deferring an underlying anxiety about subject matter. They are, in part, paintings/objects about the manifestation of psychological states—about mood, pattern-making, chance, and the unstable relationship between figure and ground. These works attempt to reconcile the world as both field and a collection of discrete objects. There is a tentative ambition for each piece to hold something expansive—if not a totality, then an small fragment of a floating world. They explore the “thingness” of things: objects emerging from and dissolving back into a kind of sentient, fluid continuum. Through visual metonymy, familiar forms double and migrate, accumulating meaning through association, innuendo, and repetition. Materially and formally, the works embrace an ad hoc, handmade quality. Found elements, exposed fixings, and layered surfaces emphasize their constructed nature, paintings as objects that resist purity or formal clarity, yet have presence. Anthropomorphic associations, scraps of epigrammatic logic, and a self-effacing, sometimes awkward sensibility coexist within a loose yet intimate cosmology. These paintings remain resolutely figurative, operating somewhere between abstraction and representation, where objects and their ghosts continuously shift and recombine. George Huon 2026