Middle Distance

ATRA, the design and architecture studio founded by Alexander Díaz Andersson, presents Middle Distance, a group exhibition of contemporary art curated by Gaïa Matisse at the ATRA New York City Gallery at 43 Clarkson Street.

Middle Distance brings together four artists working in painting, drawing and sculptural form: Andreas Díaz Andersson, Nick Farhi, Sophie Matisse and Enrique Veganzones. The artists come from Mexico City, New York and the southeastern coast of Spain, and the group spans two generations. The title refers to the part of a picture that sits between foreground and background, where the eye settles before it reads detail or depth. Each artist in the exhibition works in that space between recognition and abstraction. Matisse removes the figures from well-known paintings and leaves the rooms they stood in. Farhi paints the streets of New York and Mexico City in oil on aluminum. Veganzones builds drawings and paintings from repeated counts and slow traditional techniques. Díaz Andersson makes geometric works that treat volume as a subject.