E2 & SPECIAL PROJECT 1
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MICHELLE PATEROK, SHAWN HUCKINS & CHARLIE OSCAR PATTERSON
At Future Fair 2025, booth E2, Duran Contemporain brings together new paintings by Michelle Paterok and Shawn Huckins, two artists who approach painting as a contemplative and materially grounded response to the visual and emotional registers of contemporary life. While distinct in sensibility, both artists work within expansive pictorial traditions, positioning their practices in critical dialogue with historical modes of image-making.
Michelle Paterok's work is informed by the compositional logic and spatial sensitivity of Japanese painting and printmaking. Her paintings, ethereal yet precise, inhabit a liminal space between abstraction and suggestion, where color, transparency, and gesture accumulate to create environments of quiet resonance. Through her restrained yet immersive surfaces, Paterok invites a sustained, introspective viewing experience-one that values subtlety, impermanence, and perceptual nuance.
Shawn Huckins' new body of work marks a profound shift in his practice, turning away from language and figuration toward atmosphere, light, and abstraction. Rooted in the visual poetics of the Hudson River School and the transcendent ambitions of mid-century abstraction, these paintings explore the threshold between interior stillness and vast natural presence. Through the illusion of drapery, radiant verticals, and subtle tonal transitions, Huckins evokes fleeting glimpses of light-a sunrise, a distant tree, a horizon line-without sometimes depicting them directly. By spanning multiple eras of American painting, from the romantic sublime to minimalist intensity, his work becomes a meditation on perception, silence, and the enduring pull of the landscape.
Special Project 1 features a focused presentation of works by Charlie Oscar Patterson. Drawing on the legacy of mid-century minimalism, Patterson's modular constructions use shaped panels and tonal harmonies to explore repetition, structure, and the painting as object. His works unfold through subtle shifts in scale and color, suggesting rhythm, restraint, and the enduring power of formal clarity.
