Structures of Interest

January 31, 2026 - February 27, 2026

Opening: Saturday 31st of January 2026 4PM - 6PM

Artspace Warehouse is pleased to present Structures of Interest, an exhibition bringing together artists who engage painting through highly individual and unconventional approaches, arriving at works that feel intuitive and self-defined. While materials and methods vary, each artist works beyond standard painterly conventions, shaping the final surface through distinct personal logic rather than adherence to a single framework. The resulting artworks are tactile, materially present, and fully resolved, revealing practices shaped by each artist’s perspective, experience, and internal approach to making.

 

Robert Lebsack creates mixed-media paintings in which figurative subjects emerge against fields of text and musical notation, using these sources as quiet structural grounds rather than focal points. The drawn and painted figures carry the emotional weight of the composition, while the underlying pages introduce rhythm, history, and visual texture without asserting narrative dominance. Lebsack’s work is marked by a careful balance between image and surface, allowing figurative presence and material context to coexist in paintings that feel deliberate, intimate, and open-ended.

Jamie Burmeister creates meticulously composed works that combine expansive painted surfaces with small, hand-fabricated brass figures. His paintings are marked by careful detail—fields of dots, subtle drips, and measured shifts in color—that establish rhythm and structure across the surface. The brass figures are not decorative additions but active participants within the composition, positioned as if completing the final mark. By placing these figures in direct relation to the painted field, Burmeister creates a layered sense of scale and intention, where the artwork appears suspended between resolution and continuation.

Raul de la Torre works at the intersection of painting and textile, incorporating stitched thread directly into the surface of his compositions. The embroidered elements move across and through the painted field, introducing line, rhythm, and physical interruption without overtaking the image. Thread functions as both mark and structure, altering how the surface is read and experienced. De la Torre’s works maintain a quiet tension between softness and control, resulting in paintings that feel materially engaged and carefully resolved.

Marion Duschletta creates mixed-media works that combine photographic imagery and graphic elements with areas of paint, texture, and surface disruption. Her compositions draw from recognizable cultural references—cityscapes, objects, signage, and still-life imagery—which are partially obscured, fragmented, or reworked so their original context shifts. Distressed edges, visible buildup, and layered material passages give each work a physical presence that suggests time, handling, and reworking rather than a polished finish.

Susan Washington creates large-scale mixed-media works that combine fragments of text, handwritten phrases, and sourced imagery within expansive, light-filled surfaces. Her compositions move between legibility and obscurity, with words partially revealed, crossed out, or absorbed into areas of white paint and translucent washes. Throughout the work, visual references appear and recede—drawn from art history, poetry, and the urban environment—embedded alongside recurring symbols such as butterflies and figures. Washington’s paintings function as accumulations of language, image, and reference, forming surfaces where meaning remains fluid and deliberately open.

Together, the works in this exhibition reflect a shared commitment to intuitive, self-directed approaches to painting, where materials, imagery, and surface are shaped by individual perspective. While each artist’s practice remains distinct, the exhibition brings these works into conversation through their tactile presence, layered references, and emphasis on painting as a flexible and personal mode of expression.

 

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.