REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY
GOCHA TSINADZE
November 8 - December 6
BOOK SIGNING & EXHIBITION
Saturday, November 8, 2025
6pm - 9pm
You are cordially invited to a book launch and exhibition at KGP in Queens, New York.
Gocha Tsinadze‘s Reverse Psychology refers to the shifting relationship between foreground and background in Tsinadze's recent paintings. The artworks emerge from a sustained inquiry into the relationship between abstraction and the subconscious.
In collaboration with @kgpnyc ,We’re very super excited to announce the release of Gocha Tsinadze’s new book “reverse psychology”. @cloakfordarwin will present a new body of small works alongside the limited edition books. See you there!
CONTEXT Founding Member Gocha Tsinadze is a multimedia artist. He works and lives in Brooklyn, NY and hails from the Republic of Georgia.
His work deals with an exhaustive approach to the subconscious. He invokes features from the natural landscape and man-made environment to create color formations. He wants to challenge our notions of seeing and experiencing form, color, composition while balancing between representation and fiction. Tsinadze’s process allows monochromatic silhouettes to encroach and obscure one another resulting in a tension between equilibrium and imbalance. In his paintings the color enacts a subconscious language, foreground and background trade roles easily to yield the viewing experience to ambient absorption. Tsinadze’s aesthetic language lies between thinking and not thinking. It asks the viewer to surrender to its otherworldliness.
Featured Work:
Search for caucus mountains
2011
Lacquered ink, oil, enamel
36 by 48 in.
Context Member Caleb Nussear is an American artist living in New York City. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy and Religion from Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an M.A. in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago.
Caleb’s work is a continuation of his education in philosophy and religion. His work suggests a higher dimensional order and the equivalency of the human figure with a complex recursive geometry. Further influences are the natural landscape as it is found, an asymptotic “approach” to the work, and the sensuous and tensile drawn line. He is comfortable working in drawing, sculpture, installation, and performance; perhaps his favorite method of working is within project-based collaborative ventures with fellow artists and thinkers from a wide range of disciplines.
Caleb exhibits his drawings and sculptures regularly in New York City and the surrounding environs. He has just completed a solo exhibition at Massey Klein Gallery (March 2021); and has exhibited work at Lesley Heller Workspace; the Katonah Museum of Art; Vaudeville Park, and participated in performances at Judson Memorial Church and Triskelion.
Featured Work:
Cubic Muira #2; 2021
slip cast porcelain with cone 10 reduction glazes
25 x 14 x 2 inches
This work translates my interest in folded paper drawings into high-fired porcelain. High temp glaze firings are often a chance affair and this work is no exception - the interior cracks and mostly oxidized finish are unintended yet add tremendously to the finished work.
Context Member Thiago Szmrecsányi @thiagoszmrecsanyi is a Brazilian visual artist primarily working as a sculptor and in social interactions. Thiago has been living in NY since 1994. He holds a BA from Hunter College and is the recipient of the Artists Space Independent Project Grant for his curatorial work insert produced for the Cuchifritos Gallery and the Essex Street Market.
Featured work:
9275Y is part of a long equation (or password) for our uncertain times. In times where numbers were people losing their lives, or represented the artist's own DNA sequence, a curtain both reveals and hides. It shields us from the world, and yet it shows hidden truths.
This work is a large scale (92"H x 45W) woven collage, mixing cardboard stripes with signage plastic tapes (from the yellow CAUTION, to the red DANGER) and paper cut out numbers. The result is a curtain hanging from a metal track with some potential sideway mobility. The artwork (or curtain) is parallel to the wall plane and yet not attached to it. It is suspended from the floor. Its hidden back, suspension, and the unsolved long sequence of letters and numbers all speak to a feeling of doubt: what exactly is this all about?
Context Member Amanda Bauer @pixturgram is a multidisciplinary artist experimenting with photography, animation, video and book publications.
Her work explores psychological questions about interpersonal connection and its relationship to personal and collective histories.
Featured Work:
“Lost at Sea”
(2023)
Pencil, watercolor, photography and digital software.
“Lost at Sea” (2023) is an experimental animation exploring isolation and fragmentation. The story’s disjointed body finds itself rebound by a school of deep-sea creatures who pull together its disparate parts, to make it whole again.
Thank you to everyone who came to visit CONTEXT during Sunset Park Open Studios. 🙏
Congratulations all the participating organizations and artists. 👏💗👏🙌💗
Special thanks to @narsfoundation for spearheading @sunsetparkopenstudios .
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Photo credit: @ndcmps
CONTEXT is proud to join @sunsetparkopenstudios and present Submerging, a group exhibition of recent artwork by CONTEXT members Amanda Bauer, Gocha Tsinadze, Joshua Nierodzinski, Caleb Nussear, and Thiago Szmrecsanyi.
Join us this Friday and Saturday.
OCTOBER 13th / 6 - 9 pm
OCTOBER 14th / 12 - 5 pm
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The title of this exhibition began as a playful riff on the term “Emerging Artist”. The entry-level career stage for artists is followed by Mid-Career and then Established. To advance through these levels requires acceptance within the capitalist art market which means sales, awards, and exhibition history. All with the promise of financial wealth and class mobility. We all know that very few artists live solely from their artwork. Even less reach icon status. And yet, so often the advice of those established artists when asked how they achieved that status is to immerse oneself in practice and life as opposed to seeking recognition. So, don’t aim to emerge. Submerge.
What started as a response to emergence has taken on deeper meaning in the past few weeks. Not only because of the recent flooding in New York but because we, the members of CONTEXT, are losing our gallery space. We are actively searching for a new site and, with any luck, will resurface soon.
