Jorge Luis Santos & Dan Lam: Dual exhibitions opening at Square One Gallery

Square One is proud to invite you to the dual opening receptions for Jorge Luis Santos's solo exhibition "Dilatation" & Dan Lam's solo exhibition "A Flinch, A Craving, A Thrill of Disgust". Opening at Square One Gallery Friday, September 12th from 5-9pm. Join us for an evening with the artist present, cocktails, and refreshments.

Jorge Luis Santos: Dilatation

Jorge Luis Santos (b. 1973, Quivicán, Cuba) is a Miami-based artist known for his visceral, large-scale abstract works. Over a career spanning more than three decades, Santos has consistently explored new territories in material, form, and technique - working with oil, acrylic, mixed media, found objects, iron, and wood across painting, sculpture, and installation. Rooted in abstraction with gestures that echo abstract expressionism and informalism, Santos’s work is deeply connected to his lived experience in Cuba and abroad. As he notes, abstraction “sympathizes more with my spirit and my way of living.” Now considered one of Cuba’s foremost abstractionists, his works have been included in major collections such as the Pérez Art Museum Miami and the Museum of Cuban Art Vienna. His work has been written about and discussed by prominent Cuban scholars and critics including Rafael Acosta de Arriba, Elivia Rosa Castro, Nelson Herrera Ysla, Elsa Vega Dopico, and José Manuel Noceda, amongst others.

In "Dilatation", Santos’s debut exhibition with Square One Gallery, he explores the subtle shifts of quiet transformation with the works lingering in the thresholds between tension and release. Through these meditative passages, Santos reveals opening as both an intimate vulnerability and a profound act of strength.

Dan Lam: "A Flinch, A Craving, A Thrill of Disgust"

Dan Lam is an American sculptor of Vietnamese ancestry best known for her strange, brightly colored "drippy" sculptures. Using non-traditional inorganic materials such as polyurethane foam, acrylic paint, and epoxy resin, she creates sculptures that resemble alien organisms, genuinely extraterrestrial in their composition. Embracing the chaotic behavior of her chosen materials, Lam plays the role of a mad scientist in her studio, creating her mouthwatering, otherworldly sculptures through intuition and play with careful control. Her finished work oozes over itself, gushing over shelf ledges, holding space for sensations of desire and disgust.

In "A Flinch, A Craving, A Thrill of Disgust " Dan Lam invites viewers into a space where attraction and revulsion intertwine. Her sculptures cascade over surfaces with a lush materiality that simultaneously tempts touch and warns against it, embodying the uneasy pleasure of indulgence. Lam balances spontaneity with meticulous craft, transforming chaos into carefully staged encounters. The works ask us to confront our instinctual responses, cause our impulses to recoil, and linger in fascination - reminding us that beauty often exists at the threshold of discomfort.

Join us for the reception

Friday, September 12th // 5-9pm

4814 Washington Blvd, STL

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