Margaret R. Thompson The Calm Center, 2025 Oil on Panel 11” x 14”
UNTILTED - Painting Perspectives and Interpretations
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 6th, 6:00 - 8:00pm
November 6 - December 20, 2025
39 White Street, Tribeca
Participating artists: Bethany Czarnecki, Matthew F. Fischer, July Guzman, Wolf Kahn, Anna Ortiz, Alex McAdoo, Nick McPhail, Neil Raitt, Catherine Repko, Margaret Thompson and Aaron Zulpo
1969 Gallery is pleased to announce our year-end group exhibition, UNTILTED: Painting Perspectives and Interpretations, featuring 11 artists who examine new ways to depict the natural environment and its inhabitants.
The exhibition ranges from Margaret Thompson’s reflective, optical illusion, artistically proving that the earth is round, to Bethany Czarnecki’s deconstructed color swirls, moving from abstract to moving abstract. Works include July Guzman’s observed coastal oasis, Nick McPhail’s intersection of city and greenery, and Aaron Zulpo’s desertscape in the sunlight of Joshua Tree National Park. Wolf Kahn’s pastels on paper convey nature’s energy through expressive brushwork and vivid color, while Alex Mcadoo combines historical research with technological image-making. Matthew F. Fischer interprets nature using graphic design elements and inorganic forms. Catherine Repko’s monumental duo figures, rendered in sorbet-neutral colors, explore sisterhood and express a feminine aspect of nature. Anna Ortiz and Neil Raitt present plant motifs in surreal, otherworldly palettes, with moments of abstraction to evoke landscapes through color.
Throughout UNTILTED: Painting Perspectives and Interpretations, the artists use abstraction, surrealism, and personal perspective to challenge the landscape tradition and, in turn, propose a new visual vocabulary to represent the natural and built environments.