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Yes, color makes me feel something


Wiley Guillot 
Flannery McDonnell
Ellery Thompson 
Niklas Taleb 
Audrey Xu
Organized by Emma Soucek

5.13 - 6.10.2023

Press Release 
“There was a recent time when I wondered almost every day why people like art. It had become slowly bewildering to me, why someone would want an inanimate, random thing inside their home, or why someone would travel any distance to visit a painting on a white wall that could tell them nothing in particular. I kept my confusion to myself and carried along normally, going in to my studio to fix the red line on the surface that needed to clearly touch the other red line. I would go to see art in galleries as usual, observing and walking, observing; then walking. At the end of each day, late at night,  when it was time to flop down on my sofa, I was still met by that pesky inquiry; what was the point of art?

As my days continued to turn, I felt more and more at a loss. It was all starting to feel muted and dull, I could barely think about anything but my paintings! I grew so enthralled with making my paintings satisfied, I could go anywhere with them. The more I gave them my thoughts, the more they showed me through the fog. I had begun to structure my life around making them. Eating for my paintings, sleeping for my paintings, shopping for my paintings, even dreaming for my paintings. My point of reflection may have come and go a while ago, but I would have been unaware- I was too busy painting.”

                                                                                                                                                                -Emma Soucek




Wiley Guillot 
Dream Team, 2022
Marker, pen, white-out and paper on paper.
16.5 x 12.5 inches.


Niklas Taleb
Müncher Straße
2022
Archival pigment print, Passepartout, glass, tape
17.3 x 22.4 x 0.6 inches
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
Ed. 3/3
(Courtesy Èdouard Montassut)




Flannery McDonnell
If the fruit tastes good, use the seed, 2023
Wood, ink and pencil on canvas.
63 x 16 inches






Ellery Thompson
What color was the wallpaper? 2022
Acrylic on canvas. 
28 x 36 inches

Niklas Taleb
Suvretta House Bild, 2021
Archival pigment print, glass, tape.
17.3 x 22.4 x 0.6 inches
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
Ed. ⅔
(Courtesy Lucas Hirsch)




Ellery Thompson
As All Days, 2022
Acrylic on canvas.
24 x 30 inches

Wiley Guillot
Double Trouble, 2022
Marker, pen, white-out, and paper on paper.
16.5 x 12.5 inches


Flannery McDonnell
Smoke is the signal, 2022
Pencil and sharpie on paper.

Audrey Xu
I’m not sure, 2023
Looped digital file.  
Edition of 3
Ed. ⅓

Audrey Xu
Idk?, 2023
CGI
Edition of 3
Ed. ⅓