Exhibitions_Essays on Abstraction Part 6

Essays on Abstraction
Part 6

organized by Antonio Adriano Puleo

The Fold, Glassell Park, CA
July 27th - August 24th, 2025

A two person exhibition of Julie Spielman and Megan Reed

Press Release

The Fold is a project created in 2024 by Antonio Adriano Puleo. Programming focuses on explorations and conversations in Abstraction, creating a Platform to exhibit ( Fold ) two artists' practices at a time. The project seeks to put artists in conversation with each other and the community of North East Los Angeles.

Color as a monument. Blood moon and eclipse. Pink and Orange. Electric energy. Clearing out, creating space for things to move in. Building the piece from within. Sculptures do have such human properties. A purity, an architecture, a function, nothing hidden. We are all part of this blob, no end and no beginning. Phenomenology of living in different colors. Space as a sculpture to work within. Lines to use. Rigor and playfulness = magic YES. There is the experience and then there is the reality but both can be true. Piece as an extension of my body and/or a stand in performer. Laughter, lightness not to get away from pain but as a learning tool. A survival strategy. Finding a way through and opening up space where there was none before. Color auras. Precarity and oscillation. Color to push the limits of dissonance and cacophony.

Installation images by Christopher Young