For artists Amanda Martinez, Alex Paik, and Anne Schaefer repetition plays a significant role in cultivating and implementing unique visual languages developed in the studio. While the conceptual underpinnings of the works vary, the pieces included in this show explore the dynamic tension between improvisation and plan while employing repetition to explore visual structures.

Brooklyn-based artist Amanda Martínez's large drawings, shown for the first time here, offer insight into both her drawing and sculptural practices. In carefully rendered two-dimensional and three-dimensional works, repetitive forms and labor-intensive processes yield methodical and meditative work for both the artist and the viewer. Martinez's micaceous pigment drawings take on the larger scale of the sculptural work while employing the language of drawings, offering the artist an opportunity to explore a greater physicality of mark-making. The synthesis of the vernacular adobe and stucco architecture of New Mexico, along with traditions in embroidery and basketry, renders work that investigates a connection to the terrain and the artist’s ancestral traditions.

Los Angeles-based artist Alex Paik's site-responsive, temporary installations vary in each iteration; these modular wall installations explore the adaptability, impermanence, and interdependence of forms, color, and structures. Geometric units, made from folded, hand-colored paper, are layered and hung on the wall, creating improvised and ephemeral installations. Partial Hexagon (X), previously exhibited at Cal Poly State, will take its next form on the walls of this pop-up. Paik's work explores the instability and adaptability of structures and the endless potential to imagine and build new systems and relationships not only visually and formally in art but also within ourselves and the world we inhabit.

Kinderhook-based artist Anne Schaefer's paintings are generated through a visual language culled from the refuse of the studio, the byproducts of the making process, the digital language of CMYK print processes, the vocabulary of the silkscreen print matrix, and the history of collage. In this way, the work is highly iterative. Much like a musical artist layering samples on a track, Schaefer sources and remixes from her archive of making. Color and pattern are paramount to creating optically challenging and perceptually immersive experiences for the viewer. Paintings play call-and-response with each other; the repetition of visual elements are reminders of past works that have been grafted into each other, creating new possibilities for growth and expansion.

For more information about the artists visit: amandaemilymartinez.com, alexpaik.com & anneschaeferstudio.com