Kwamé Azure Gomez: Set the Atmosphere
5 March - 18 April 2026
Marianne Boesky Gallery
507 West 24th Street

For her debut New York solo exhibition and first show under representation by Marianne Boesky Gallery, Kwamé Azure Gomez (b. 1999 in Akron, OH) draws on the pulse of queer nightlife and the meditative lyrics of gospel music in a new suite of paintings that blur the lines between figuration and abstraction.

Gomez's practice overall is informed by topics including liturgical spiritual dance, queer ballroom culture, Black radical theory, and the history of painting. Working with a combination of oil, acrylic, spray paint, and modeling paste, Gomez moves through canvas intuitively, layering thin washes of color with bold, expressionistic gestures and subtle, often ghostly, suggestions of figuration—human forms, limbs, birds, apples, flowers, letters, and numbers—which appear briefly before receding back into vibrant, chromatic surfaces. With titles drawn from the artist’s writing practice, Gomez’s paintings embody a dynamic interplay of opacity and transparency, at once revealing and withholding. 

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More information is in the above-linked press release, and a preview of works on view is below. See the Dropbox folder linked above to download high-resolution image files. Artwork information is in each image’s file title. Image reuse must be exclusively in association with press coverage of the exhibition, with the credit line “copyright of the artist and courtesy of Marianne Boesky Gallery”