Opening Reception: “Ode to Infrared” by Sam Hulsebus

The Radial Arts Center is excited to announce the opening reception of Sam Hulsebus’ solo exhibition “Ode to Infrared.”

The exhibition “Ode to Infrared” is a nod to Hulsebus’ ongoing Infrared Series — exploring the invisible world beyond the visible spectrum, shaping our perceptions but remaining elusive. These paintings reinterpret foundational myths and collective memories through a visceral, dreamlike lens, dismantling linear narratives and layering time, space, and emotion.

Drawing from art history, mythology, and personal experience, the series reconstructs allegories of power, struggle, revelation, and collapse. Figures, architecture, and landscapes emerge and dissolve in cycles of destruction and renewal, with vertical compositions echoing ascension. These motifs explore themes of surveillance, obscured realities, and the human endeavor’s existential weight.

At the heart of this series lies an engagement with materiality and process. Each work serves as a constructed space merging past and future into a heightened present. Using techniques such as pentimento, this same narrative storytelling is executed through multiple layers of under paintings. Layered abstraction intertwine with figurative mark-marking, embedded writing, often buried or fragmented, mirror history’s rewrite, concealment, and rediscovery. This interplay invites viewers to search and decipher meaning within the image’s ruins.

– Can’t make the opening?
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– Questions? Email us at info@radialartscenter.org