Kevin Kramer Gallery is pleased to present Tangerine, an exhibition of new work by Lucas Rubly, in collaboration with Galeria Verve. This exhibition marks the artist’s first solo presentation in New York.

Rooted in the modernist tradition, Rubly’s paintings unfold as meditations on memory, erosion, and the unstable architectures of place. Working with a restrained palette and meticulously calibrated surfaces, the artist constructs compositions that oscillate between intimacy and distance, clarity and dissolution. His images evoke environments that are neither fixed nor fully knowable, but instead remain subject to the contingencies of perception and time.

Throughout his practice, Rubly approaches painting as a temporal medium. Layers are accumulated, obscured, and reworked, suggesting both the passage of time and its compression within the pictorial field. Forms soften at their edges and collapse into one another, as if mediated through the imprecision of recollection. In this way, the works resist fixed or singular narratives, offering instead atmospheres shaped by ambiguity, persistence, and subtle transformation. In Tangerine, color assumes a central and structuring role. The titular hue appears intermittently across the works, at times anchoring the composition, at others emerging only to recede, serving as a connective element that under scores the exhibition’s underlying tension between presence and impermanence. The resulting body of work invites sustained and attentive viewing, wherein meaning remains provisional and unfolds gradually over time.

Lucas Rubly is represented by Sea view, Los Angeles and Galeria Verve, São Paulo.