“Gesture, Perception, Identity” Opens at Alessandro Berni Gallery in Chelsea This June
Alessandro Berni Gallery presents Gesture, Perception, Identity, a three-person exhibition featuring Denise Jones Adler, Lauralee Franco, and Eva March. The show opens with a public reception on Thursday, June 4, 2026 from 6–9 pm and remains on view through June 14, 2026 at 511 West 25th Street in Chelsea.
Through distinct visual languages, the exhibition explores painting not as representation alone, but as an act of psychological excavation: gesture as instinct, perception as instability, identity as something continuously assembled and undone. Denise Jones Adler constructs layered dreamscapes where painting, collage, photography, and drawing coexist like fragments of memory surfacing from the subconscious. Drawing from mythology, personal narrative, and symbolic archetypes, her canvases transform the act of looking into a shifting terrain between intimacy and collective memory.
Lauralee Franco engages directly with the legacy of Abstract Expressionism while resisting its pull toward repetition. Her paintings carry the force of gesture without collapsing into spectacle, hovering between cosmic vastness and personal intimacy where abstraction becomes both emotional record and existential navigation. Critic Peter Frank has noted that Franco “has inherited the Abstract Expressionist mantle without disappearing into it,” fitting its energy to her own vision.
Eva March, entirely self-taught before formal studies at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, moves between figuration and abstraction with chromatic intensity. Color, for March, is an immediate transcription of emotion, spirituality, and human interiority. Her paintings favor freedom over calculation, allowing symbolic forms to emerge from the turbulence of paint itself. Together, the three artists approach painting as an unstable mirror, one capable of revealing psychic traces, emotional residue, and the invisible architectures beneath perception.
Exhibition Details
Show: Gesture, Perception, Identity
Artists: Denise Jones Adler, Lauralee Franco, Eva March
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 4, 2026 | 6–9 pm
On View: June 4 – 14, 2026
Venue: Alessandro Berni Gallery | 511 West 25th Street, New York, NY 10001
Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 11 am–6 pm | Sunday by appointment
Website: View on Artsy
