TURN Gallery is pleased to present RESTING POINT, a group exhibition featuring work by Merrick Adams, Kimia Ferdowsi Kline, and Mason Saltarrelli.

Adams, Kline, and Saltarrelli pause and reflect on the complex interconnectivity of consciousness, relationships, and the transcendental. By transforming body, water, and spirit, time and place are stripped, and reality is abstracted. What remains is the interplay of colors, symbols, and implied experience. Resonating with their lingering presence, these three artists depict in their own visual language a way of working that conjures a resting place not directly represented on the surface, but experienced through their pigmented sentiments.

Merrick Adams’s ocean scapes summon an abstraction of light and the unknown through the merging of family history, nature, and method. Using netting as a matrix, Adams’s seascapes emerge from a meticulous layering of paint into a hypnotic tangle of rippling lines and segments of color rising and falling alive and in motion. With the ocean as a metaphor for consciousness, Adams’s paintings plunge the viewer into the depths of the unknown, offering a silent meditation before bringing them back to the surface.

Kimia Ferdowsi Kline distills her subject matter into body-based lexicons as a tool to decipher the expansive mysteries and intimacy of human relationships. Cut out from the distractions of place, situation, context and even gravity, these emotionally-charged figures take center stage as they grapple with the complexity of self and each other. Carved from wood or papyrus, Kline’s figures offer a powerful reflection on the complexities of human connection, memory, and healing.

Mason Saltarrelli navigates a bridge between beings and spirit by engaging with a succinct collection of discovered and abstracted characters and syllabaries. Painting and drawing intuitively—his expressiveness articulates continuing, woven motifs which invite unlimited exploration from the watcher. Saltarrelli’s jubilant work transforms human, animal and inanimate beings into buoyant embracing remembrances in an ever-evolving carousel of shape and color.

RESTING POINT will open Thursday, November 7th from 6 - 8 pm. The show will be on view until December 14. We are located on the 2nd floor of 32 East 68th Street NY, NY 10065. The gallery is open Wednesday - Saturday 12 - 6pm. For further information, contact Annika Peterson at ap@turngallerynyc.com.