GW Contemporary is pleased to announce Lucent Ground: Contemporary Perspectives on Abstraction, the gallery's inaugural exhibition, on view from July 20 through September 7, 2025. The exhibition brings together eleven international artists whose works investigate material, perception, and the poetics of form.
Curated by gallery founder Genevieve Williams, Lucent Ground explores the physical and conceptual possibilities of abstraction across painting, sculpture, and installation. The exhibition features works by Larry Bell, Laddie John Dill, Heather Hutchison, Gary Lang, Jan Maarten Voskuil, Jonny Niesche, Mark Whalen, Rosalind Tallmadge, Will Cooke, Line Busch, and Nobu Nishigawara.
Spanning generational and geographic boundaries, Lucent Ground highlights the shared sensibilities of artists working across Southern California, Australia, Europe, and beyond. Unified by a refined engagement with light, surface, and spatial experience, the featured artists emphasize materiality as both subject and structure-whether through mirrored glass, recomposed clay, layered resin, or pigment suspended in space.
Located directly across from the Laguna Art Museum, GW Contemporary presents a curator-led program that fosters dialogue between emerging and established voices from the U.S., Australia, and further afield. The gallery's inaugural exhibition marks the beginning of a cross-cultural platform rooted in creative exchange and material exploration.