NEW YORK, NY.- CHART is now presenting our sixth PROJECTION exhibition, The Wallpaper of the Forest, a presentation of five new abstract paintings by Isabella Cuglievan. The exhibition began on Thursday, November 10th, from 6 – 8 pm, and will be on view through Saturday, January 7th, 2023.




The exhibition, which takes its title from a line by scientist and bryologist Robin Wall Kimmerer, who elegantly examines a common but largely overlooked element of the natural world, features Cuglievan’s artfully constructed paintings, each inundated with intricate and exacting brushstrokes. Patterns are painstakingly applied by hand, as the artist slowly and delicately builds a web of symmetrical compositions, that are one part disciplined control, and one part kaleidoscopic explosion.

Isabella Cuglievan (b. 1993, Peru) lives and works in Lima, Peru. The artist received a BA from Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. Cuglievan had a solo presentation at Marvin Gardens in Ridgewood, New York (2021), and her work has also been exhibited at The Pit, with Tamara Gonzales, in Palm Springs, California (2022); Sebastian Gladstone, with Dino Capaldi, in Los Angeles, California (2022); KDR305, with Adrianne Rubenstein, in Miami, Florida (2021); among others.

PROJECTION is an initiative alongside our main gallery programming, highlighting diverse voices in intimate presentations. PROJECTION features artists in the naissance of their careers or those that have been overlooked, working across a variety of mediums and formats. All PROJECTION exhibitions will take place concurrently in two venues: our downstairs gallery space and online in our PROJECTION ROOM.