
The Shape of Sunshine gathers works that consider how colour, material, and atmosphere shape what we see. Across abstract painting, works on paper, textiles, relief sculpture, and photography, the presentation traces the perception of materials, light, and weather phenomena.
Mel Bochner’s text-based monoprints, Jill Baroff’s tide-derived works on handmade gampi paper, and Andrew Bick’s large handmade tapestry translate language, data, and geometric systems into tactile form. Felipe Mujica’s hand-dyed textile flags and Henrik Eiben’s mixed-media compositions embrace light, inviting shifts as the viewer moves. Stefana McClure’s pieces—loosely based on Japanese colour-vision tests—reflect the artist’s long engagement with Japan and a sustained interest in perception.
Beat Zoderer’s colourful, three-dimensional constructions play with spatial perception and formal rigour; in this instance, those concerns are translated onto a two-dimensional plane. Susan Morris’s data-driven works on paper, Florian Baudrexel’s folded cardboard reliefs, and Alan Johnston’s large-scale painting made in the US in the late 1980s probe structure, rhythm, and the way surfaces register light.
Clay Ketter is represented by two works: a large-scale photograph from the Madre Verduta Series, composed of a myriad of carefully arranged and heavily manipulated images based on photographs the artist took in Naples, and a recent painting engaging Alfred H. Barr Jr.‘s influential “Cubism and Abstract Art” diagram. Ethan Cook’s woven cotton abstractions and Giulia Ricci’s precise, pattern-based works on paper extend a dialogue with geometry and optical attention. Mike Meiré’s large oil painting on a carpet, THE WEATHER REPORT, directly addresses a central theme of this presentation.
Seen together, these works form a focused, playful cross-section of our programme—inviting collectors to explore connections across media and to consider how light, colour, and weather shape visual experience.


Established at the turn of the century by Niklas and Daniela von Bartha, the London-based gallery, Bartha Contemporary, places a strong emphasis on non-figurative and conceptual works by mostly established American and European contemporary artists. Hailing from the second generation of the art-dealing von Bartha family, Niklas, along with his wife Daniela, maintains a retrospective look at underappreciated modernising movements of the past in the gallery programme, whilst championing the latest works of contemporary artists.

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