New York-based painter Bret Slater @bretslater created one of his signature shield paintings to double as a lid for our project space. We appreciate his willingness to embrace such a unique space to explore and engage his practice with.
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Prometheus
11.5” x 11.5”
Acrylic on Linen
2026
bladegod came to me in a dream, told me ts was hard & deserved the hard post. kinda felt like i was being glazed, or maybe BG was impressed by @thisrainydecade clipping skills. either way, what's important is that i stopped wearing skinny jeans last summer
Final weekend to see Modular Mythologies before the gallery closes for August Residency.
See you here on these last few days!
Images:
Bret Slater
Ramiel, 2023
acrylic on linen
24 1/8 x 17 1/4 x 1 3/8 in
Portal Slice, 2024
acrylic on linen
37 x 23 1/8 x 1 5/8 in
Kodak_E9_AF, 2023
acrylic on linen
30 1/4 x 23 1/8 x 1 5/8 in
Telluric Multi-pass, 2023
acrylic on linen
47 x 23 1/8 x 1 3/4 in
“Bret Slater’s universe is a scorched spiritual terrain: a post-belief landscape marked by ruins and ritual. Brutalist textures and circular forms hint at the remnants of a fallen empire–part extraterrestrial transmission, part sacred relic. His sculptures operate as fragments of an abandoned code, drawn from collapsed ideologies or ascended mythologies. They exist as mystical objects with residual charge, echoing both ancient faith and post-apocalyptic despair.”
Image:
War Emblem, 2025
acrylic on linen
7 1/8 x 5 1/4 x 1 1/8 in
Jr. B ‘n’ Me, 2025
acrylic on canvas
6 x 1 in
Modular Mythologies on view through August 2nd. Gallery will be closed this Thursday-Saturday in observance of Independence Day 🇺🇸
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Bret Slater (he/him) is a New York based artist. His practice is driven by a deep sensitivity to form, often
inspired by the design and construction of architecture, automobiles, machinery, and improvised or makeshift structures. Encountering these forms evokes a sense of personal resonance and connection to something larger, whether a story, system, or history outside his own. His paintings are conceived as whole objects rather than images, with scale, thickness, and support considered integral to their presence.
Image:
Bret Slater
Soul Kitchen, 2022
acrylic on linen
23 1/4 x 1 3/4 in
Save the date! Summer openings on Thursday, June 26th 🌻
| Modular Mythologies |
Bret Slater, K Rawald, Tim Kastelijns
Curated by Danielle Paterson
Modular Mythologies brings together sculptural works that operate as world-units—glyphs from speculative realms, each articulating a distinct visual language. Through modular forms, hybrids, and symbolic residues, each artist builds a personal lexicon—utopic, dystopic, uncanny, or divine. These works extend beyond objecthood, functioning instead as fragments of imagined environments: blueprints of belief systems, remnants of possible futures, and architectures for alternative ways of being. Made from industrial surplus, clay, or techno-organic matter, the works function as material codes: a speculative syntax where myth, memory, and material reality mutate.
| Viewing Room |
Drawings by Priyanka Dey
