Voltz Clarke Gallery is pleased to present Jacinto Moros, Maru Quiñonero, & Jason Trotter at Intersect Palm Springs opening Thursday, February 10th.

Location: Palm Springs Convention Center | 277 N Avenida Cabelleros Palm Springs CA 92262
Opening Night Preview (VIP/All Access Pass required): Thursday, February 10, 2022 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Fair Dates: 
– Friday, February 11, 2022 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
– Saturday, February 12, 2022 11:00 am – 5:00 pm
– Sunday, February 13, 2022 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
– VIP Brunch Sunday, February 13, 2022 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Jacinto Moros, Maru Quinonero, and Jason Trotter eachshare a strong interest in playful shapes, dynamic form, and vivid color. Distinguished by their unique backgrounds, specialized training, and distinct use of material, these works interact effortlessly to showcase high energy and expressive emotion. Moros’ wooden structures dance alongside the delicate hand of Quiñonero’s pastels and Trotter’s razor sharp compositions.

Intersect Palm Springs is a boutique fair that brings together a dynamic mix of modern and contemporary art, and is activated by timely and original programming. The fair has traditionally occurred in conjunction with Modernism Week at the Palm Springs Convention Center, and presents post-war and contemporary art. Formerly known as Art Palm Springs, it has been running since 2012.

Jacinto Moros was born in 1959 in Cetina, Zaragoza, Spain and is best known for his innovative use of the sculpture medium. By creating friction between his chosen material and their resulting forms, Moros develops a rhythmic weightlessness in space, as seen through his wood work and embossed monochromatic reliefs. The artist has been exhibited internationally, including the New Museum in New York City, the Sculpture Center, and the Smithsonian Institute, among others. Moros is also found in many private collections worldwide. He currently lives and works in Madrid, Spain.

Maru Quiñonero’s passion for volumes, shapes, textures, colors, and different materials inspire her to define compositions that visualize her own creative universe. Her Color and Vacuum series has been in the development stage since 2017 and focuses on creating a conversation between color and emptiness with a recent extensive study of colors– blue in particular. Quiñonero is a self taught artist who breaks conventional boundaries through her own capacity to imagine and express what she feels inside. She is based in Madrid, Spain. 

Jason Trotter is an American artist known for his bold geometric abstracts rendered in acrylics. The Los Angeles based painter explores contrast and balance using a hard-edge technique that produces sharp lines with abrupt transitions between color fields. His process requires him to work on a flat surface to tape off shapes, and then build up multiple layers of paint with a brush before applying the final coat with a palette knife for ample texture. He focuses on triptychs that are assembled and framed as one piece. This multi-panel approach allows for a more dynamic effect than the traditional compilation.While Trotter’s colors are chosen intuitively, his compositions are inspired by lines and forms observed in daily life with the intention of evoking an instinctual, physical reaction from observers rather than interpretive analysis.

Opening Reception: February 4th, 2021, 2 – 6pm

Gallery Location: 195 Chrystie Street, New York, NY 10002

Hours: Monday – Friday, 10 am–6 pm, Saturday and Sunday by appointment Contact Info: Juliette@voltzclarke.com, 917.292.6921, voltzclarke.com

Voltz Clarke Gallery is pleased to present KICKSTART: A Group Show, with Mark Boomershine, Jeff Chester, Katy Ferrarone, Gemma Gené, Jacinto Moros, Stephanie Patton, Lucy Soni, and Jason Trotter.

KICKSTART, a group show, opens Thursday February 4th and celebrates a new year offering fresh opportunities and a positive outlook; “looking forward” rather than “looking back.”

Jeff Chester’s portraits, while crisp and contemporary, exhibit a retro feel. They, as with Mark Boomershine’s diamond dust “disco- ball” circles, take us back to the 1970s. Jacinto Moros’ metallic blue polyurethane resin sculpture and Jason Trotter’s powerful works on paper, picks up this baton and runs with it. Lucy Soni’s new multi-colored tangles echo the complexities of the past year and offer solutions as well as Katy Ferrarone’s abstract canvases. Gemma Gené’s “Yellow” symbolizes the healing powers and energy attributed to mineral rocks and therefore our hopes for the future. Stephanie Patton’s “You” sculpture asks the obvious question.

KICKSTART, a group show, runs through early March and temperatures will be taken upon entering the gallery. 

Exhibition: March 2nd – April 21st, 2017
Location: Voltz Clarke Gallery, 141 East 62nd Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10065

In March, Voltz Clarke Gallery opened SEAMS, a joint exhibition featuring the work of Jacinto Moros and Stephanie Patton. This two person exhibition brings the American and Spanish sculptors in conversation for the first time comparing each of their seams, folds and curves.

Madrid based Jacinto Moros is characterized by his mathematically calculated designs. In generating friction between his chosen material and their resulting forms, Moros creates a rhythmic weightlessness in space, which can be seen through his wooden sculptures and embossed monochromatic reliefs. The subtle curves become the signature element for which he is remembered.

Louisiana based Stephanie Patton uses humor, word play and an attention to materiality to address universal human experiences of suffering, comfort and healing in her quilted compositions.

The artwork in SEAMS survives on energy and movement allowing a strong dialogue with one another and their audience. The exhibition will run through April 21st.

Voltz Clarke and Alexandra Porter 

Shane Butler | Will Cooke | Sara Jimenez | Kit Kittle | Natasha Law | Tina Mion |
Jacinto Moros | Lucy Phillips | Robby Rose | Lisa Schulte | Sasha Sykes | Xin-Yi

On View: July 14th – August 10th, 2016
Opening Reception: July 13, 6-8 PM
Location: Voltz Clarke Gallery, 141 East 62nd Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10065

Voltz Clarke and Alexandra Porter presents Flesh: Exercises Beyond Erotica, an exhibition that explores the artists’ and society’s complicated relationship with the body at Voltz Clarke Gallery.

Capable of seduction, repulsion, sin, familiarity, and everything in between, one wonders whether it is not the eyes, but the flesh that is the window to the soul. Moving beyond traditional portraiture, the artists featured recognize the body as an access point beyond ordinary sensuality: person (illustrated identity), place (residence of the soul), and thing (carnal vehicle). Each offers an original explanation for the ways in which we make sense of ourselves as seer and seen, or, in this case, feeler and felt. Robby Rose dismantles expectations for prurient portraits, his quiet bathing figure turned away as identity ripples into easy, subjective isolation – both his and ours. The figures in Xin-Yi’s photographs are just part of the landscape; some depict only evidence of bodies – what those bodies have built. Kit Kittle’s Surfaces series calls into question the very nature of our skin, daring us to define our own barriers of entry. Lucy Phillips’ GI Jane wrestles with the paradox of woman’s flesh as armor and invitation, demonstrating salubrious self-realization while weaving an allegorical warning against the perils of doggedly pursuing perfection. From mind to matter: How do we write a shared definition of the corporeal world when our experiences
of corporality are unique as, say, a fingerprint? From the flesh of a fruit (Mion’s Melons poised as gaping mouths), to unassuming nudes observed as though by a sister or a friend (Law’s Ink), to the electric charge of Will Cooke’s push pull abstractions (Disco Inferno), the artists in Flesh: Exercises Beyond Erotica present their experiences as contributions to a universal definition of bodiliness. This small but
salient exhibition has a static cling that hangs around the artworks, an impression as unnerving as it is understood.

For inquiries please contact Alexandra Porter at alexandra@alexandraporteradvisory.com