Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery

10/15/2026

A sign can point the way, but it cannot tell you where you belong.

In Signpost, Eugene Ofori Agyei uses boots, a tire, and a fabric-wrapped column to explore migration beyond physical movement.

The materials speak of labor, endurance, memory, and the fragments of home carried across places.

Rather than offering a destination, the work reflects on belonging as something continually shaped by movement, resilience, and adaptation.

Discover Signpost in Eugene Agyei’s online solo show, What Lies Beyond the Visible?

Explore the exhibition at: https://alvarezgallery.com/whats-lies-beyond-the-visible-eugene-ofori-agey/

10/08/2026

From a shared studio to an exhibition space, two distinct artistic practices enter into dialogue.

Carlos B Biernnay and fellow artist Eliana Mesa share a studio at NEST Arts Factory in Bridgeport, Connecticut. This October, their work comes together in MESA–BIERNNAY, an exhibition at City Lights Gallery that examines how artistic exchange and shared creative environments can influence individual practices.

Presented in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, the exhibition highlights the relationship between the artists' distinct approaches and the role of community in shaping their creative processes, materials, and artistic development.

Opening reception: October 10, 6:30–9 PM
City Lights Gallery
265 Golden Hill Street, Bridgeport, CT

More exhibition details: https://bridgeportarttrail.org/mesa-biernnay

10/07/2026

“One of the things that I love about landscape painting is it in such a constant and complicated state of flux, that attempting to capture it becomes of an act of perception rather than an act of replicating. As a painter you are left with no choice but to straddle the worlds of representation and non-representation.”

— Jena Thomas

Seen together, these three paintings offer different expressions of that idea. Elements of landscape remain recognizable, yet light, atmosphere, color, and painterly gesture continually destabilize what we see.

Rather than attempting to replicate a landscape exactly, Thomas moves between observation and interpretation, allowing representation and abstraction to coexist within the same pictorial space.

Leftover, 2024
Oil on canvas
58 × 48 inches

Entertainment, 2024
Oil on canvas
89 × 78 inches

Small Fire, 2024
Oil on canvas
36 × 36 inches

10/07/2026

Currently on view in our Viewing Room: Three-Dimensional by Arturo Di Modica.

The exhibition presents small-format sculptures from the gallery collection and revisits a lesser-seen part of the artist’s practice.

View the exhibition:

“My point was to show people that if you want to do something in a moment things are very bad, you can do it. You can do it by yourself. My point was that you must be strong”Arturo Di Modica

10/06/2026

What returns never comes back the same.

In Return(ing) III, Eugene Ofori Agyei expands one of the central ideas of What Lies Beyond the Visible?: the past is not behind us — it moves with us.

Matter becomes memory, binding becomes history, and the object becomes witness.

Some identities are not inherited. They are reconstructed.

Explore Return(ing) III in the online solo show at: https://alvarezgallery.com/three-dimensional/

09/30/2026

Our current show, Three-Dimensional, brings into view a lesser-known side of Arturo Di Modica’s practice: his small-format sculptures.

While Di Modica is most widely associated with monumental work, these sculptures reveal another scale through which he explored form, volume, material, and abstraction.

Their story leads back to Florence, where Di Modica spent his formative years developing the sculptural language he would later bring to New York.

Explore Three-Dimensional in our Viewing Room:
https://alvarezgallery.com/three-dimensional/
Archival images sourced from the official Arturo Di Modica website: arturodimodica.com.
Biographical reference: “Il Maestro Forming” by Prof. Valeria Bruni, 2021.

09/28/2026

Ambiguity runs throughout Serbin’s investigation of abstraction.

In Multiverse Toon, Moral Toon, and Crossover Toon, different pictorial strategies coexist within a single field. Gesture meets geometry; atmospheric passages encounter hard edges; continuity is interrupted by lines, divisions, and shifts in visual language.

Through these tensions, Serbin approaches abstraction not as a closed historical language, but as one that can be continually reconsidered, contaminated, and reconstructed.

Explore the works of Vincent Serbin here: https://www.artsy.net/partner/alvarez-gallery/works?artist_ids%5B0%5D=vincent-serbin

09/25/2026

“Belonging is not a final destination but something we continually create through movement, resilience, and adaptation.”

— Eugene Agyei

In Part II of our conversation, Eugene Ofori Agyei explores what it means to return when home, memory, and identity are continually transformed by movement.

Across works including Return(ing), Fruitful Umbrella, and Signpost, migration and belonging become ongoing processes rather than fixed destinations.

Read Part II of the conversation: https://alvarezgallery.com/part-ii-eugene-ofori-agyei/

09/24/2026

Between arrival and departure, identity shifts.

In Return(ing) II, Eugene Ofori Agyei captures the feeling of being suspended between worlds — the body in one place, memory somewhere else.

Through the contrast of materials, Agyei speaks to the diasporic condition: belonging is never singular, and home is never fixed.

What lies beyond the visible is often what defines us most.

Explore Return(ing) II in What Lies Beyond the Visible? at: https://alvarezgallery.com/whats-lies-beyond-the-visible-eugene-ofori-agey/

Curatorial catalogue available ES/EN.

09/22/2026

Through recycled textiles, ceramics, and copper, Carlos Biernnay addresses the water crisis affecting Chile’s Mapuche Indigenous communities.

The installation brings questions of water, territory, culture, and community into physical form through materials central to his practice.

Developed during his residency at Foundation House, the work was presented as part of the Open Studios exhibition in Spring 2026.