Antonio López, Barbara Goldmann, Chaeheun Park, Jean-François Lauda, Michael Kennedy Costa, Minh Lan Tran, Mona Welch, Wilson Miller: Shadow of a Doubt

How much specificity can a painting contain before the image stops being open? Shadow of a Doubt brings together a group of artists whose practices examine the unstable territory between representation and abstraction. Rather than treating the image as a fixed description of the visible world, the exhibition considers painting as a process through which images emerge and resist definitive interpretation. Taking its title from Andy Warhol’s Shadows paintings, the exhibition draws on the nature of the shadow: both a recognizable trace of a presence and an abstract form in its own right. The shadow becomes a model for representation, which can suggest or register something without fully revealing it. Across the exhibition, images take shape through processes of accumulation, erasure, revision, and intuition. Forms emerge, dissolve, and reappear, shifting between the recognizable and the indeterminate. Memories and familiar visual cues are transformed rather than simply reproduced, while abstract forms suggest the possibility of representation without resolving into fixed images. Together, the works explore abstraction and representation not as opposites, but as interdependent processes through which an image takes shape.