Location: The Solarium at The Colony Hotel, 155 Hammon Ave, Palm Beach, FL33480
Contact: caroline@voltzclarke.com | 917.292.6921

Press Release

The Colony HOTEL and Voltz Clarke Gallery are pleased to present IN THE PINK, a group exhibition.

Love and violence, seduction and innocence, finery and garishness, the masculine and the feminine; the color pink has always represented fascinating contradictions. The color's turbulent history is ushered into the present-day meaning according to Oxford Languages ‘in very good health and spirits’ at The Solarium at The Colony through a selection of works by Christina Burch, Field Kallop, Lucy Soni, Khalilah Birdsong, and Jason Trotter. The selected paintings for IN THE PINK invite viewers this season to experience pink in all its dimensions; from soft, subtle hues to bold, vibrant statements. Abstract geometries engage with familiar florals and flesh tones, showcasing pink's dynamic role in representation. Field Kallop’s sharp forms in shades of dusty rose and coral juxtapose the brilliantly deep magenta peonies in Christina Burch's canvases. Set against the backdrop of Palm Beach's pastel sunsets and plastic flamingos, the Colony Hotel provides the perfect address for this vibrant exhibition.

The Colony Palm Beach | Voltz Clarke Gallery Collaboration invites hotel guests, visitors, and locals alike to explore a rotating selection of fine art at the iconic property steps from Worth Avenue and the Atlantic Ocean. As guardians of a treasured icon, The Colony Palm Beach faithfully preserves its legacy of gracious hospitality while ensuring continued relevance to a new generation of modern, well-traveled and discerning guests. The 93 room property offers unique, curated experiences for guests of all ages delivered with best-in-class ultra boutique service. Much more than a hotel, The Colony is a state of mind – a place to connect meaningfully and authentically with one of the world’s most storied destinations, steps from both Worth Avenue and the Atlantic Ocean. Aware of The Colony’s singular place in the hearts of long-time Palm Beachers, the hotel is dedicated to maintaining a rich tradition of culinary excellence and sophisticated entertainment in a vibrant social setting that is both welcoming and refreshingly unpretentious.

Selected Works

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: April 8th, 5-8pm 2021

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 thrilled to introduce the work of KHALILAH BIRDSONG with a two-person exhibition RESURGENCE alongside gallery artist, JASON TROTTER. 

Khalilah Birdsong’s gestural and organic overlapping fields of color are not only playful and effervescent but serious and thought-provoking while Jason Trotter’s razor sharp lines are precise with an overall flat and minimalist surface.

Resurgence: an increase or revival after a period of little activity, popularity, or occurrence.

“I am interested in survival and resurgence. Distress, weathering is palpable on the canvas, but so is reawakening. I build layers up and then take them away to create a painting that is, ultimately, whole. The process of layering and stripping builds contusions, bumps and raw ridges, but also reveals patches of older, more forgotten colors. Every painting is an experience through process, which translates to the canvas to create a story that can only be experienced visually.

My process is strenuous to the medium. Through it, my paintings achieve resolution.” –Khalilah Birdsong

Khalilah Birdsong has participated in solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Japan, Germany and Italy. Her paintings are held in numerous private and corporate collections, including that of President Barack Obama and are under consideration to hang in his Presidential Library. Birdsong’s paintings bring to mind the work of Alfred Leslie, Joan Mitchell, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Jack Whitten and of, course, Gerhard Richter. However, whereas they were tied to references to nature and their style looser and freer, her work combines physicality with a precision and finely calibrated balance.

Named, in 2019, by Contemporary Art Curator Magazine in London as one of the “ 100 Future Contemporary Artists in the World”, Birdsong has won numerous accolades. In the fall of 2019 she participated in the XIIth Florence Biennale and received a Hambidge Fellowship for the Creative Arts & Sciences in 2020.

Birdsong lived in the rainforest of Maui, Hawaii from 2017-2019 where she painted fervently in nature and discovered a new meaning of life that is evident through her work. She currently lives and works in the mountains of North Georgia.

A Voltz Clarke gallery artist since 2019, Jason Trotter is pleased to share the Lower East Side gallery space with Birdsong. 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. 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.

In Trotter’s second exhibition with Voltz Clarke, he is focusing on triptychs that are assembled and framed as one piece. This multi-panel approach allows for a more dynamic effect than the traditional compilation. The correlation from panel to panel allows simple shapes to unite, resulting in non-representational compositions that make a singular, eye-catching statement. Jason Trotter’s work is intended to evoke an instinctual, physical reaction or feeling that uplifts. From social media to 24-hour news cycles, we are all enveloped in a constant bombardment of thoughts, ideas, opinions, and information that mostly add anxiety to our already stressful lives. Rather than perpetuate this, his paintings offer an escape by emphasizing his compelling compositions.

Jason Trotter is a graduate of Northern Illinois University who lives and works in California. Drawn to minimal abstraction, his work is strongly influenced by Carmen Herrera, Ellsworth Kelly, Josef Albers, and Frank Stella.

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. 

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 7th, from 6–8 pm
Gallery Location: 141 East 62nd Street, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10065
Hours:  Monday – Friday, 10 am–6 pm, Saturday by appointment
Contact Info: saraht@voltzclarke.com, 212.933.0291, voltzclarke.com

Voltz Clarke is pleased to present Equilibrium, the inaugural exhibition of Los Angeles based artist Jason Trotter. Opening on November 7th, the show runs through January 10th, with an opening reception on Thursday, November 7th from 6-8pm.

Jason Trotter is an American artist known for his bold geometric abstracts rendered in acrylics. Trotter explores contrast and balance using a hard-edge painting technique that produces sharp lines with abrupt transitions between color areas. His process requires him to work on a flat surface to tape off shapes, and then build up several layers of paint with a brush before applying the final coat with a palette knife for ample texture. 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.

For Trotter’s first gallery exhibition of his work, he will be focusing on triptychs that are assembled and framed as one piece. This multi-panel approach allows for a more dynamic effect than the traditional compilation. The correlation from panel to panel allows simple shapes to unite, resulting in non-representational compositions that make a singular, eye-catching statement.

His work is intended to evoke an instinctual, physical reaction or feeling that uplifts. From social media to 24-hour news cycles, we are all enveloped in a constant bombardment of thoughts, ideas, opinions, and information that mostly add anxiety to our already stressful lives. Rather than perpetuate this, Trotter’s paintings offer an escape by emphasizing his compelling compositions.

Jason Trotter is a graduate of Northern Illinois University who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Drawn to minimal hard-edged abstraction, his work is strongly influenced by Carmen Herrera, Ellsworth Kelly, Josef Albers, and Frank Stella.