The Shape of Looking

Haines Gallery is pleased to present The Shape of Looking, a group exhibition bringing together three abstract painters — Rebekah Goldstein, Ricardo Mazal, and David Simpson — whose practices draw from associative and perceptual shifts, engaging color, material, and process as primary vehicles for meaning. While working with distinct concerns and sensibilities, each artist approaches abstraction as an open field shaped by perception, memory, and the physical properties of their chosen media. Whether through Goldstein’s playfully charged, shaped canvases, Mazal’s meditative, research-driven paintings, or Simpson’s light-activated Interference series, the works on view invite sustained looking, revealing themselves over time. Together, these artists foreground abstraction as a dynamic mode of inquiry — one that remains deeply connected to both the perceptual world and lived experience.