Exhibition Opening at Main Projects

Main Projects will be opening two solo shows on Friday, June 6th from 5-8pm: Deborah Brown, Traces, and Mallory Page, Much to A Nightmare’s Delight.

“Traces” is an exhibition of new and recent paintings by acclaimed American artist Deborah Brown. Spanning still life, landscape, and self-portraiture, the works examine memory, presence, and the emotional imprint of objects. Through vivid color and expressive brushwork, Brown animates everyday scenes with psychological depth, inviting viewers to rediscover the material world as a site of meaning and mystery. Brown, a graduate of Yale and Indiana, has shown extensively in NYC as well as in Asia, Europe and South America. Her work has been written about in The New York Times, Cultured, Juxtapoz, and Art in America, among others.

Concurrently, Mallory Page will be opening a solo show of ethereal, abstract paintings in the second gallery. In “Much to A Nightmare’s Delight”, Page extends her inquiry into painting as an atmospheric and psychological register. Working with thin, layered washes of acrylic, she constructs surfaces that do not depict but rather emanate—spaces where sensation accumulates, flickers, and recedes. Her term “the shell of an atmosphere” captures this approach: a membrane of mood and memory suspended between presence and dissolution. Page, a New Orleans-based painter, is a recent MFA graduate from School of the Art Institute Chicago.