Volume is a solo exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Adrienne Maki, her first solo exhibition with OCHI. Maki's artistic practice merges sculpture, painting, and design into a singular formal language that pushes painting beyond the flat picture plane. Using curved, symmetrical supports that reject the rigidity of the square canvas, she explores painting as an extension of form rather than mere decoration, employing pours, slashes, ovoid shapes, and restrained gestures that follow the contours of the structure itself. Her work is deeply informed by modernist and postwar design histories, particularly Italian Spatialism, mid-century architecture, and Japanese and Danish modernism.
