RL Fine Arts Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Ari Lankin. An exciting young artist who embraces a variety of media, Lankin expresses himself primarily through painting. This show, titled ‘Windows of Self’ is a group of new dynamic abstract paintings.

The maxim, “Everything is Connected” is central to Lankin’s image making. Exploiting the natural physicality of painting, with its perpetual erosion and malleability, Lankin is interested in how our environment is ultimately a subjective experience open to personal interpretation. The plastic, the ephemeral, and everything in between are intertwined in his work. Memory and active perception are in flux as first impressions dissolve and new revelations emerge. Lankin creates energetic images where the viewer is free to assign meaning and revel in sensation. The public and personal is ambiguously intermingled. His paintings are windows of self-reflection and residue of performance.

Lankin’s interest in systems, nature, order, emotion, and relational flow inform his sensually intuitive handling of paint. Expressive mark making brings to life a space that is active on the surface and infinitely deep. Lankin embraces our growing relationship with technology and how it changes our notions of space visually and conceptually. Lankin absorbs, deconstructs and recreates echoes of these sensations in his abstract painterly language.