Transportation, Allan Rand’s first New York solo exhibition, positions painting as a site where image, material, and history converge. Using casein, thread, abalone shell pigment, and pigment ground from convict-made bricks, Rand links his surfaces to histories of exile and labor. The exhibition expands “transportation” beyond deportation to suggest rupture and trespass. In Paroxysm (2025), collapse gives way to flight; Young Blade (for F.K.) slices through cultural frameworks; Stoop Culture (for B.B.) layers archival traces; and Æblerov (2025) depicts children caught in playful theft. Rand’s paintings stage friction between law, imagination, and memory.
