Ocean in Space, a solo exhibition of paintings by Julie Durkin Marty, curated by Katerina Lanfranco, artist, curator, and founder of Rhombus Space, and former Chief Curator at Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn. Opening Saturday, September 13, with a reception from 4–6 PM, the exhibition will be on view through October 20, 2025.
In Ocean in Space, Durkin Marty unveils a new body of work that conjures a visual language at the edge of recognition, where gestural abstraction meets speculative mapping. These paintings emerge through accumulated marks and atmospheric color fields, navigating the psychic overlap between internal states and environmental systems. Influenced by images of the ocean floor, outer space, storm charts, and shifting geological forces, her compositions behave more like weather patterns than static images—volatile, luminous, and alive with pressure and motion.
Rather than offering fixed interpretations, these paintings hover between legibility and collapse, evoking sediment, storm systems, and a deep sense of time and space. Durkin Marty’s work resists resolution, instead drawing viewers into a field of poetic instability, where memory, perception, and place unravel and reform.
This is the artist’s first solo exhibition at G-Town Arts, marking the culmination of a body of work developed over the past three years.
Ecosophy, curated by Katerina Lanfranco, is a group show on view in the gallery’s Project Room. Ecosophy features artists whose work resonates with themes of transformation, biophilia, and ecological awareness. Ecosophy offers a rich artistic variety of styles and media. The exhibition features works across abstract, representational, narrative, and conceptual styles, all unified by ecological themes of coexistence, environmental awareness, and emphasizing the interconnectedness of ecology, ethics, and society while celebrating nature’s dynamic complexity.
Participating artists in Ecosophy include:
Marion Belanger, Nicholas Cueva, Daisy Gesualdi, Kelsey Gilmore, Aidan Haley, Debbie Hesse, Elizabeth Insogna, Katherine Keltner, Benjamin Klein, Erika Larskaya, Rita Leduc, Maria Markham, Sabrina Marques, Donna Mnoum, Sue Muskat, Brooke Toczylowski, Rosanne Walsh, and others.