Spiraling

November 28, 2026 - December 24, 2026

Opening: Saturday 28th of November 2026 4PM - 6PM

Artspace Warehouse presents Spiraling, a study of movement and recurrence in contemporary abstraction. Across the work of five artists, the eye rarely comes to rest. Repeated forms establish rhythms that shift across the composition, while layered passages create depth and draw the eye beyond the immediate surface. Familiar structures become increasingly complex as new relationships emerge, giving even the most direct forms the capacity to generate unexpected visual tension.

Uruguayan artist Leonardo Aguirre brings his background in architecture to an expressive approach to abstraction. Trained to think through proportion and spatial organization, Aguirre found in painting the freedom to move beyond architecture’s practical constraints and construct environments guided by imagination. The influence of Joaquín Torres-García drew him toward Uruguay’s important constructivist tradition, but Aguirre gradually loosened its geometric structure as gestural lines and fluid areas of color entered his work. Structure remains fundamental to Aguirre’s practice, giving imagination something to build upon and push beyond.

Rachel Taggart’s path toward abstraction grew from a longstanding curiosity with materials and making. Early experiments with sewing and stained glass helped shape the intuitive approach she brings to painting today. Taggart is drawn to the freedom of beginning without a predetermined composition, building diluted acrylic washes across raw canvas as color and form gradually find their balance. Her fluid approach allows forms to recur organically, creating dynamic compositions in place of fixed patterns. Unpredictability gives Taggart’s paintings their lasting visual interest and presence.

Brandon Neher is a Los Angeles-based painter whose abstract practice centers on geometric structure, repetition, and color. His compositions bring the individuality of the painted mark into the highly ordered grid of repeated circles and squares. Neher layers changing colors throughout his geometric arrangements, creating an undulating rhythm within their rigid organization. The optical effect activates geometry, giving repetition a pulse that carries across his compositions. The strength of Neher’s work lies in making rigorous order feel alive, turning the satisfaction of pattern into an experience of movement.

German artist Petra Rös-Nickel brings a background in fashion design and architecture to paintings that combine geometric organization with richly worked surfaces. Her studies in both fields shaped an enduring interest in pattern and structure, while her preference for the creative possibilities of architecture ultimately led her toward painting. Influenced in part by the traditions of Concrete Art, Rös-Nickel works through an additive and reductive process, building layers of oil paint and mixed media before scratching, rubbing, and removing areas of the surface. Accumulation gives her geometric structures a physical depth that extends beyond their graphic organization. Rös-Nickel makes structure something materially felt, allowing geometric precision to carry the richness and tactility of a worked surface.

Virginie Schroeder has developed an abstract practice distinguished by intricate linear compositions and a sculptural approach to painting. Her flowing lines first emerged from observations of an old beaded curtain moving in the wind, an image that became an important element of her developing visual language. Schroeder builds her compositions through successive layers of acrylic, applying paint with a syringe before shaping each raised line with a knife. The dimensional surfaces draw on principles associated with Optical and Kinetic Art, creating illusions of movement that shift according to the viewer’s position. Schroeder’s sculptural approach expands the possibilities of painting, giving motion a lasting role in the experience of her work.

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.