Exhibitions

Juan Uslé’s early work is closely tied to nature and lived experiences, establishing a relationship between memory and perception. His works bring together personal memories and perceptions of a landscape in a state of metamorphosis with those derived from the pictorial process itself. It is a process that is, to a certain extent, expressionist, yet one that adopts a critical awareness to make something complex visible. The two works "Untitled", 1987, in this exhibition are memories of the Cubas River; they were painted during his early days in New York, while in "The Book of Landscape", 1988, he moves away from the memory of the familiar landscape, opens up, and redefines himself through what would later become his "Sueños del Capitán Nemo" period.

Brett Goodroad has a very direct relationship with the landscape and nature because he paints outdoors, in the open air, allowing him, through this objective element, to experiment with a sense of openness and isolation simultaneously. He evokes the reality of the landscape and nature surrounding him, in relation to the pictorial and perceptual process, as he himself says: “In my practice as a painter, what eludes you is precisely what you seek. It is that which you will never attain, and when you finally do, something beautiful and magical happens.” It is not merely an expressionist process in which forms are reinterpreted and evolve into forms rooted in reality. Brett Goodroad’s work is a symbiosis between figuration and abstraction, challenging an order, escaping it, and exercising the will to make decisions that transform his own source of inspiration, contradicting himself.

Both artists pursue alternative realities to existing forms in the search for what escapes or hides from perception, through a pictorial process, an invitation to observe and simply be.

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Brett Goodroad (1979, Kearney, Nebraska, United States) grew up in Montana and now lives and works in Surprise Valley, California. He earned an MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute and previously a BFA from the University of Montana.

His recent solo exhibitions include "Paradise Valley" at Michael Werner Gallery, Beverly Hills / Los Angeles (2025–2026), his first solo exhibition at the gallery. He has also had solo exhibitions at ADZ Gallery, Lisbon (2025 and 2022); at Greene Naftali, New York (2024), in a show curated by Hilton Als; at Cushion Works, San Francisco (2023); and at Greene Naftali, New York (2022). Previously, he had solo exhibitions at Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco (2019, 2018, and 2016).

His work has also been featured in various group exhibitions, including shows at Greene Naftali, New York (2024, 2022, and 2020), Cushion Works, San Francisco (2023 and 2021), Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco (2019 and 2018), Karma, New York (2021), Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley (2019), Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley (2018), and The Drawing Center, New York (2014). Goodroad’s work is included in public collections such as the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). His work has been reviewed and discussed in specialized publications such as Artforum, Frieze, Art in America, and ArtReview.

Juan Uslé (1954, Santander, Cantabria, Spain) lives and works between New York and Saro (Cantabria). He graduated from the Escuela Superior de San Carlos in Valencia. In his early career, his work was exhibited at the Municipal Museum of Fine Arts in Santander and the Ruiz Castillo Gallery in Madrid in the early 80's. During that same period, he exhibited at venues such as the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston (in a solo show), Galerie 121 in Antwerp, and the São Paulo Biennial.

Throughout his long career, he has had numerous solo exhibitions, the most recent of which were at: Frith Street Gallery, London; Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Galerie Lelong, New York (2026, 2025); Galerie Lelong, Paris (2024); and Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin (2023). Over the past two decades, his work has also been exhibited at the following institutions and galleries: Museu D'Art Contemporani D'Eivissa MACE, Ibiza (2018); Galería Moisés Pérez de Albéniz, Madrid, IVAM, Valencia (2018); Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (2014); Museum of Modern Art, Palma de Mallorca (2010); Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium; IMMA, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2004); Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (2002).

In addition, his work is part of museums and public collections such as the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France), MNCARS Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), Musée d’Art Moderne (Luxembourg, Luxembourg), Moderna Museet (Stockholm, Sweden), Museum Boijmans van Beuningen (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst (Munich, Germany), among others.