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Kevin Umaña: Sanguine and Spiraling

Yancey Richardson

525 West 22nd Street

New York, NY 10011

On view Mar 5 - Apr 11

Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 6pm

Artist(s)

Kevin Umaña

Sanguine and Spiraling is Kevin Umaña’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, presenting new and recent hybrid paintings that combine glazed ceramics with painted canvas. Oscillating between biomorphic and geometric forms, the works explore memory, psychology, and nature through layered abstraction, integrating contrasting textures and fragmented compositions.

Selected Works

Kevin Umaña

Kevin Umaña (b. 1989) grew up in El Salvador and Los Angeles. He earned his BFA from San Francisco State University in 2014 and now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Initially focused on geometric painting, his practice has expanded to ceramics. His recent “hybrid paintings”—glazed ceramics on painted canvas—explore the history of the Pipil people, Indigenous to western and central El Salvador, where his family originates. These works blend conflicting styles: biomorphic and geometric, matte and sheen, order and mess. They evoke childhood memories—landscapes, beaches, plants, building materials, food, and religion.