Shapes Under Water

Moberg Gallery
February 9, 2024 - March 2, 2024

Justin Beller is an intuitive artist, in keeping with his Zodiac water sign. His new artworks, large and small-scale, are testaments to a changing process. Moving beyond his original structures, he’s also making three-dimensional wall works and revisiting older pieces to incorporate them into renewed, cleaner, and edgier paintings. Beller is interested in evoking the natural feeling of shapes under water. These compositions find the vertical and abstract as perfect homes for the telling of stories that frequently emerge best in the linear realm of raw wood and paint. Controlled organic details led him to a new palette of greys, purples, and mauves, which, integrate with his more vibrant colors, invoking a fresh dynamism. The new-found elements strike a recalibrated balance in this body of work, still concerned with geometry, but also with lines in more altered states.