#UncoolGallery_Winter2026Cohort
Wallace dos Santos
Disco Dancer, 2025
Tempera on paper and matboard, spray-painted paper pulp frame
30 × 26 in | 76.2 × 66 cm
A sun anchors a corner, a dominant flower holds the center, and a sequence of smaller blooms unfurls in a flattened, side-scrolling field. Materials: Tempera on paper & matboard, spray-painted paper pulp frame.
This work is now available on Artsy through Uncool Gallery.
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@uncool_artist@walgus2
My past few weeks with @vermontstudiocenter ! Some works in progress, new pieces, and new friends 🩵 Thank you for having me & big shout out to the amazing staff 🐛🚛
Come see this piece today in my solo show at @haul.gallery , up for one more weekend after today 💎🩵
Summer’s over (so, there’s this profound sadness), 2025
Paper pulp painting and tempera on paper, spray painted paper pulp frame
46.5 × 64”
Rhapsody in green is open today at @haul.gallery from 1–6 💚 two more weekends to see the show 📀
Snakeman, 2025
Tempera on paper, spray painted paper pulp frame
16.5 × 20.75”
Rhapsody in green is open at @haul.gallery until 6 today :) up for 2 more weekends after this :p
Rhapsody in green, 2025
Tempera on paper, spray painted paper pulp frame
16.5 × 20.75”
Rhapsody in green is open today and tomorrow 1–6pm at @haul.gallery , up until April 13th
Skywalker, 2025
Tempera on paper, spray painted paper pulp frame
16.5 × 20.75”
Photo: Max C. Lee
Thank you so much to everyone who came to the opening last night. I am so grateful to my community, and everyone who receives my work with love.
An incredible amount of gratitude for Annika, who helped me so much with this show, and embroidered my shirt 😅💚 and to Erin, Max, Maria, Val, Jonelle, and my mom for making the show possible – thank you dearly for dedicating your time to this project.
Rhapsody in green is open at @haul.gallery until April 13th, on weekends from 1–6pm.
OPENING TONIGHT
Rhapsody in green
wallace dos santos
2025 Raised in Brooklyn Artist in Residence
March 15th - April 13, 2025
Walking through Brooklyn is a psychedelic video game. Navigating obstacles — overgrown sidewalks, dilapidated buildings, and decades-old leaky subway stations can feel like a boss battle. haul’s 2025 Raised in Brooklyn Artist in Residence, wallace dos santos, brings us into a screen-inspired reality of architectural details and design rendered in bright colors and pattern-rich paintings. Bricks and tiles are regular motifs, inspired by both Brooklyn and Lisbon, and pay homage to the Super Mario Bros. games which feature bricks as a malleable canvas and potentially the source of its entire universe. On the edges of these screens (as paintings) are frames sculpted with undulating patterns, the texture reminiscent of the many over-painted iron fences that surround the Brooklyn buildings wallace grew up in – like barriers in a side-scrolling adventure game.
Materially, wallace works to harness uncontrollable and entropic media. They primarily paint with tempera, a runny fluid medium, which strives and struggles to stay within the design. Each frame is meticulously covered in layers of paper pulp, applied as a messy wet paste. Several of the works are also painted with paper pulp directly, which causes noticeable paint-bleed, changing the animation style from 2D perspectival to a looser dream sequence. wallace’s paintings operate in two modes at once: hard-edge, pixel-based, and geometric, all the while being hand-rendered and organic.
