Body Electric
September 27, 2025 - October 31, 2025
Opening: Saturday 27th of September 2025 4PM - 6PM
Artspace Warehouse presents Body Electric, a group exhibition that reveals the charge of movement in contemporary painting. The works on view capture the surge of motion as paint is swept, dragged, or flung across a surface, holding the tension between intention and release. Spatula strokes ripple with texture, brushwork echoes the discipline of performance, and sprays of pigment dissolve into shifting illusions. Together, these paintings transform fleeting gestures into charged surfaces alive with rhythm, vitality, and presence.
Clara Berta, a Hungarian American painter based in Los Angeles, channels movement into expansive abstractions shaped by memory, heritage, and emotion. Through layered acrylics and mixed media, her sweeping gestures transform the canvas into spaces of renewal and reflection. Water, time, and healing recur as themes, with each mark carrying both the rhythm of her body and the resonance of her personal journey. Exhibited internationally, her work embodies the vitality of motion while offering moments of tranquility and depth.
Cynthia Coulombe-Bégin, born in Miami and raised in Quebec City, infuses her paintings with the intensity of performance and the intimacy of gesture. Trained as both a painter and dancer, she translates movement into textural canvases where close-up portrayals of mouths and eyes collide with vivid contrasts of color and chiaroscuro. Her sweeping strokes channel a search for identity and the body’s vulnerability, transforming motion into symbolic explorations of energy, desire, and self-discovery. Exhibited internationally, her works capture movement as both physical trace and emotional revelation.
Zabel, an internationally exhibited artist, transforms the act of painting into a vivid performance through her signature use of the spatula. Blending influences from cubism, pop, urban art, and impressionism, her canvases carry the physicality of each stroke, layered with vibrant color and palpable texture. References to haute couture and glamorous lifestyles infuse her work with elegance and flair, while the momentum of her gestures invites viewers into a world where movement becomes both story and sensation.
Armen Ges, a Los Angeles–born artist with a background in psychology, captures movement through vibrant layers of acrylic and spray paint. Combining gestural techniques with graffiti influences, he creates optical illusions and shifting perspectives that immerse viewers in dream-like states of color and form. His works embody fluid motion and psychological depth, using saturated hues and dynamic marks to reflect both the spontaneity of the body and the complexity of the human psyche.
Gail Titus builds her canvases with vigorous marks that balance speed, tension, and release. Her layered compositions highlight how rhythm and motion translate into luminous fields of color and form. By allowing gesture to remain visible, Titus emphasizes painting as both action and record—an unfiltered expression of movement that leaves a lasting resonance on the surface.
Together, these artists offer a compelling reflection on how the body in motion shapes what we see. Their works celebrate painting as a record of lived movement, each piece alive with rhythm, immediacy, and resonance. Body Electric affirms the raw vitality of mark-making as more than technique: it is the evidence of action, the imprint of motion made permanent.
Body Electric will be on view at Artspace Warehouse from September 27th through October 31st.
Since the opening of Artspace Warehouse in 2010, the gallery continues to be an industry leader in affordable, museum-quality artworks making collecting art accessible and budget-friendly. With one gallery in Zurich and two galleries in Los Angeles, Artspace Warehouse specializes in guilt-free international urban, pop, graffiti, figurative, and abstract art. The expansive 5,000-square-foot space offers a large selection of emerging and established artists from all over the world.
