Free Gallery Night: Aina Clotas’s ‘The Backwards Race’ (SF)

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Ryan Graff Contemporary is delighted to announce The Backwards Race, a solo exhibition from Aina Clotas.

Opening Reception with the artist July 11, 5–9 PM
Ryan Graff Contemporary
804 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
www.ryangraffcontemporary.com

Spanish artist Aina Clotas’s  paintings position the human body as both evidence and mystery: a physical structure, a vessel of feeling and memory, and one of the last places where humanity resists reduction into mere duty or function. While her paintings are grounded in figuration and shaped by classical training, Clotas perceives the figure as inseparable from abstraction. Her visual narratives combine rationalism with a touch of absurdity, reflecting a generation tangled in societal roles, misinformation, fears, and dreams. In her work, flesh, shadow, gesture, and negative space all become a language through which the rational and irrational move together, allowing the body to speak beyond the strictly literal.

Clotas ties herself as one knot in a larger fabric of human beings trying to make sense of life: through touch, through looking, and through the fragile and necessary act of making images.

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