July Guzman: Along the Line

Exhibition Dates: September 4 - October 24, 2024

Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 4th @ 6PM-8PM

39 White Street, Tribeca

1969 presents July Guzman: Along the Line. In his debut solo exhibition with the gallery, Guzman has assembled a suite of paintings showcasing his deep interest in landscape and abstraction and the sliding possibilities between the two.

His new paintings investigate the expansive environments and golden, shifting colors of southern California where he lives and works. Varying in size, from window-to-vast, the resulting canvases prod viewers to look more closely, ponder the human vantage points and marvel at the world with all its surprising life and matter poking and blinking all around and about.

Guzman also explores the concept of his emerging individual self – these paintings reflect his personal, intimate daily meditations on poetry and life. He projects a sense of time passing over his immediate, shared surroundings. He understands the land of the ephemeral, where one day changes into a new night, and a plant or vulnerable insect lives and dies because of what the darkness of the moon brings about. The 23 year-old was born in Mexico, raised in Northern California, educated on the East Coast; this series encapsulates the ease and tension of Guzman feeling simultaneously forbidden and belonging to a specific place, almost a pun on the definition of ‘natural.’

Guzman is our painterly archivist, and these works record his private act of witnessing.

For Inquiries, please contact
Alexander Browngardt | e: alex@1969gallery.com

July Guzman (b. 2001, Guadalajara, México) is a Mexican-American painter from Northern California.  Guzman attended the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI. Guzman’s work has been exhibited at NADA Miami (Miami, FL, 2022) and Contemporary Art Now (Ibiza, Spain, 2023) with 1969 Gallery. During the Pandemic The Mill Valley Arts Commission and The Marin County Independent Journal featured his experimental online exhibition, “July in May” (2020). He has been included in solo and group exhibitions at Bolinas Gallery, Gospel Flat Farm Show Space, The Endless Internal Expanse (2021, Bolinas, CA) and 1969 Gallery (2023, New York, NY). The Bolinas Museum has included his work in group exhibition highlights and their Annual Benefit Auctions (2020, 2021, 2022 Bolinas, CA). His work has also been exhibited at Faultline Art Shows (San Rafael, CA) and Sausalito Center for the Arts (Sausalito, CA).  He attended the Wolfhill residency (2023, Chappaqua, New York).

About 1969 Gallery

Founded in September 2016, 1969 is a contemporary art gallery in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood. Through solo / group / external exhibitions and art fair presentations, the Gallery has cultivated the careers of its represented artists and a broader community of artists primarily devoted to painting.

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