Dont Get Lost in Heaven

Light appears to emanate from within Caleb Hahne Quintana's newest paintings, where copper supports create a luminosity between surface and image. About Light does not simply fall upon Caleb Hahne Quintana's newest paintings; it appears to emanate from within them. Across the small copper supports at the centre of Don't Get Lost in Heaven, passages of exposed metal flicker through layers of umber, ochre, violet, and earth then red, producing a luminosity that seems to sit somewhere between surface and image. Copper becomes more than a support: its glow complicates what we see, making the material itself continually perceptible beneath the illusion of painting. Like memory, it remains present even where it has been covered over. Newchild is pleased to present Don't Get Lost in Heaven, Quintana's first solo exhibition with the gallery. Moving between portraiture, landscape, still life, and scenes of collective experience, the exhibition considers youth as a state of suspension—a period in which vulnerability can coexist with a profound sense of invincibility. Its figures swim, smoke, gather, wait, and move through landscapes that oscillate between the familiar and the uncanny. They belong to a world of adolescence and early adulthood in which consequence can still feel distant, and where the boundaries between freedom, recklessness, desire, and danger have not yet fully settled. Read more Toggle Painting