"I try to paint like a crapshooter throwing dice, utilizing past experience and my knowledge of the odds... It's a big gamble, and that's why I love it" - Paul Jenkins

Shin Gallery is pleased to announce Abstract in Flux, an exhibition that spans from the 1930s to the present and brings together an international group of artists whose practices explore and redefine the boundaries between abstraction and figuration.

Featuring works by Paul Jenkins, Ejler Bille, Choong Sup Lim, Magda Bolumar, Barbara Levittoux-Świderska, Francine Tint, Martin Kippenberger, the exhibition places a rich history of abstraction against two striking figurative paintings, by Robert Lostutter and Ed Paschke.

The exhibition unfolds across two rooms, each steadied by a single figurative painting. In the first room, Robert Lostutter presents a brightly colored, enigmatic male figure wearing a metal head cage, his body verging on futuristic robotics—a striking exploration of humanity and technological hybridity. In the second room, Ed Paschke’s portrait of Juan de Pareja bursts with vibrant color and modernity, offering a vividly contemporary interpretation that contrasts with Goya’s historical version in the Met’s collection. Surrounding these works are abstract paintings and sculptures that enter into a subtle dialogue with the figurative anchors. This deliberate interruption of abstraction challenges traditional survey expectations, revealing unexpected connections between form, psyche, and perception.

From Ejler Bille’s modernist sculpture of the 1930s to the lyrical gestures of Jenkins, Bolumar, and Tint, and the material experimentation of Levittoux-Świderska and Lim, the exhibition maps a global and evolving lineage of abstraction in every form. Martin Kippenberger’s resin wall relief—a fist emerging dramatically from a bathtub—injects humor, confrontation, and sculptural irony into this conversation, emphasizing abstraction’s ability to play with our own internalized expectations.

Abstract in Flux illuminates abstraction not as absence, but as presence—a dynamic space where figuration and abstraction coexist, collide, and transform. Visitors are invited to encounter both what can be seen and what can only be felt, experiencing the perpetual evolution of form across time and space.