Nathalie Karg Gallery is pleased to present Constructed Tensions, a three-artist exhibition featuring oil paintings by Agustín Fernández, architectural paintings by Jenny Snider, and metal wall sculptures by Dorian Gaudin. On view from March 12 through May 2, 2026, the exhibition explores tension as a fundamental structure embedded in surface, geometry, and material.
Agustín Fernández’s paintings examine compression through tightly orchestrated compositions that bridge biomorphic curvature and mechanical precision. His interlocking volumes appear engineered into dense armatures, creating a site where sensuality and constraint converge. In these works, painting acts as a contained, charged field where psychic and formal pressures are meticulously regulated.
Jenny Snider approaches structure through the vernacular of the built environment. Her depictions of cities and towns function as systems of organization rather than descriptive records. By translating windows, rooftops, and facades into modular units and rhythmic color, Snider suggests that civic space is a fragile construct held together by repetition, memory, and light.
Dorian Gaudin literalizes this inquiry with wall-mounted metal sculptures that operate as drawings in space. Using industrial steel, Gaudin creates configurations that imply frameworks under stress or in transition. His work foregrounds gravity and structural vulnerability, activating the wall as both support and field.
Across painting and sculpture, Constructed Tensions traces a shared investment in psychological, architectural, and physical frameworks. Each artist constructs systems that appear simultaneously stable and on the verge of rupture, proposing that tension is not incidental to form, but constitutive of it.
