Lehmann Maupin London will present Venezuelan-American artist Loriel Beltrán's first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom. In his new works, Beltrán resolutely asserts colour materiality and its connections to labor and process while exploring its optical effects. Across his practice, Beltrán examines how colour and light attach themselves to matter and form to suggest tactile, physical presences. Born from his fascination with the dried paint on his palette, Beltrán's practice draws upon an aesthetics of accumulation. As his surfaces accumulate layers of paint, so too do they accumulate layers of memory and meaning. In this way, Beltrán's works evidence process, materiality, and artistic labor.

Press release courtesy Lehmann Maupin.