David Castillo

in Abstraction as Legacy, on view through October 18, 2026.

Alongside Young-Il Ahn, Sam Gilliam, Carmen Herrera, Hans Hofmann, Virginia Jaramillo, Lloyd Kiva New, Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, George Morrison, Noemí Ruiz, and Zilia Sánchez.

The act of painting can also make history. Through hard edges and expressive forms, American artists re-imagined painting and used abstraction as a mechanism to consider the human body, natural environs, architecture, emotion, and an economy of line.

‘Material, Material World (Miami)’ is on view through May 30th, 2026

The painter Elaine de Kooning once said, “a painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.” It is the event, and its attendant discoveries and revelations, that guides this group of artists, the process alone divulging new information or affirming what they’d always known. The results, shared in Material, Material World (Miami), are sublime.

Image: Installation View of ‘Material, Material World (Miami)’ at David Castillo

Pepe Mar ‘Matador’ 2025 is on view through September 27, 2026

Something Borrowed, Something New showcases a diverse range of artworks produced by some of the most prominent artists of our time. Complementing these borrowed selections, this show also features exciting new pieces and creates a dialogue between the works of late 20th-century trailblazers and today’s leading global artists.

Image: Pepe Mar, Matador, 2025