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Alex Puz: Trichromacy: Alex Puz

Kensington, MD.

Current exhibition
17 May - 26 July 2025
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Image detail: Alex Puz, Trichromacy (Red-Green), 2024
Image detail: Alex Puz, Trichromacy (Red-Green), 2024

Pazo Fine Art is pleased to announce the reopening of PFA–Kensington with Trichromacy, a solo exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Alex Puz. On view from May 17 through July 26, 2025, the exhibition marks a celebratory return to our Kensington location and underscores our continued commitment to championing contemporary art in the DMV region. A full-color exhibition catalogue, featuring a commissioned essay by curator, writer, and educator Clare Patrick, will be published in conjunction with the presentation.

 

Puz’s works unfold at the convergence of objectivity and subjectivity, posited in permanent oscillation at the moment in which color is distinguished through cognitive structures. Rather than deeming either physiological or psychological responses to color as the truth of visual experience, Puz dictates the mind’s untangling of his dense, folding patterns as a psychophysical process, thematizing the pathway of visual reception. The spectating of this exhibit transpires as a deeply human endeavor, re-orienting attention to what may lie—both cognitively and affectively—beyond an initial imprint upon the eye.

 

Puz’s paintings are constructed through the repetitive act of layering series of undulating lines, organized through calculated gradients of color. His distinctive adoption of color illuminates its quality of relationality: the canvas, reduced to its surface, garners significance through the extrinsic relations of color exchanged within its peripheries. By placing seemingly distinctive colors in dialogue with one another, he is allowing for his works to uphold a stark contrast, tension, or polarity, and, in return, prolongs the emotional state that emerges from them. Each layer implanted atop the painting reinscribes those that came before it, until the work begins to bear semblance to a variety of organic life forms: from the moving waves of the ocean to the convexes of a wasp nest, they project a sense of order that is juxtaposed with seemingly natural movement. It is impossible to navigate these intricacies without interruption; viewing is akin to a visual dismembering that gradually evokes clarity.

 

The exhibition title references trichromacy, a type of color vision that involves three independent channels simultaneously feeding signals from the eye to the brain. Puz’s paintings stagnate this very technique of the eye’s mediation, where the ambiguity of color serves to reveal an affective potential only attainable through extensive visual contemplation.

 

 
Artist Bio 
 

Alex Puz (b. 1989, Long Beach, CA) received a BFA in Studio Art from Hunter College in 2014 and an MFA in Painting/Printmaking from Yale School of Art in 2022. Puz is a 2017 Rema Hot Mann Foundation Nominee and 2022 recipient of the YPEI Teaching Fellowship. He was a Cohort 05 Studio Fellow in Titus Kaphar's NXTHVN fellowship in New Haven, CT, and participated in the 2025 Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program in New York City. His work has been written about in Vogue Magazine, The Yale Daily News, liveart.io, and Art Maze Magazine, and is included in the collections of JP Morgan Chase and Yale Health. Paz has previously been showcased in numerous institutions across the country, including at The Campus in New York, NY, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery in New York, NY, MoCA CT in Westport, CT, Underdonk in New York, NY, and Gallery Simon in Seoul, Korea. Trichromacy is Puz’s first solo exhibition at Pazo Fine Art.

 

 

Clare Patrick is a South African-born independent curator, writer, and educator specializing in installation art and decolonial museum practices through collaborative, multisensory, and spatial interventions. She is the 2025 AWARE research residency laureate in Paris, where she will reevaluate Adrienne Fidelin’s role in interwar avant-garde circles, highlighting her contributions to Black Atlantic–European artistic exchanges. Clare serves as International Residency Curator at L'AiR Arts, Arts Editor for SAAG Anthology, and Art Director for No! Wahala Magazine. A 2023/24 Curatorial Fellow at NXTHVN, she has held curatorial and academic roles in South Africa, the UK, and France, and her work spans exhibitions and workshops across several continents. She holds degrees from the University of Sussex and the University of Cape Town and currently lives between Paris, London, and Cape Town.

  

 
May 17 – July 26, 2025
 

Opening reception: Saturday, May 17th, 6 - 8 PM

 

PFA - Kensington, MD

4228 Howard Ave LL, Kensington, MD 20895

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Open by appointment Saturday

+1 (571) 315-5279
info@pazofineart.com

 


 

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Works
  • Chromatic Instinct (Magenta-Yellow), 2024 Signed Verso Flashe Vinyl Acrylic on Canvas 66 x 60 in 167.6 x 152.4 cm

    Chromatic Instinct (Magenta-Yellow), 2024
    Signed Verso
    Flashe Vinyl Acrylic on Canvas
    66 x 60 in
    167.6 x 152.4 cm

  • Chromatic Instinct (Blue-Magenta), 2024 Signed Verso Flashe Vinyl Acrylic on Canvas 66 x 60 in 167.6 x 152.4 cm

    Chromatic Instinct (Blue-Magenta), 2024
    Signed Verso
    Flashe Vinyl Acrylic on Canvas
    66 x 60 in
    167.6 x 152.4 cm

Installation Views
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Installation view, Alex Puz: Trichromacy. Photograph by Yao Zu Lu.
Publications
  • Alex Puz: Trichromacy - $30

    Alex Puz: Trichromacy - $30

    Alex Puz 2025
    Softcover 72 pages
    Dimensions: 8 x 10 in
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Kensington

4228 Howard Ave Kensington
Maryland 20895

Open by appointment

Washington D.C

1932 9th Street NW, #C102, (Enter from 9 1/2 Street)
Washington, D.C 20001

Thursday–Saturday, 11 AM–6 PM

info@pazofineart.com

571.315.5279

 

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