Rodolfo Abularach: A Cosmic Vision
12 June - 31 July 2025
David Nolan Gallery
24 East 81 Street, New York

David Nolan Gallery is pleased to announce Rodolfo Abularach: A Cosmic Vision, a tightly curated survey of work spanning 1964 to 1992. Organized directly with the artist's estate, it is his first posthumous gallery survey (and first New York solo exhibition in over 25 years) and coincides with the release of a major monograph along with a sister exhibition at Marc Selwyn in Beverly Hills.

Born in Guatemala in 1933 and invited to study in New York in 1958 at the Art Students League (and remaining in New York for the next 40 years), Rodolfo Abularach (1933-2020) is one of Latin America’s most distinguished yet globally underrecognized masters. Known for his cosmic compositions that invite deeper contemplation, Abularach's institutional representation includes 42 works in the permanent collection of MoMA, with additional examples held by the Met; the Smithsonian; the Brooklyn Museum; and many more. 

Throughout his over six-decade career, Abularach created a fascinating and spiritual world filled with images of planetary forms, mandalas, and earthly and psychological portals. His most famous subject was the eye, which he saw as a window into the soul. His interest in the mysteries of the earth also led him to depict volcanoes, emblems of the artist’s homeland and ancient history.

Said Abularach, of his signature subject: "The mysterious eye, the seat of all vision, the root of plastic imagination, the connection between the mind and the external surroundings. A receiver of the rainbow (of the most beautiful colors) as well as darkness. Expressions of rapid or static movements. concentrated openings with incredible variations-half-open like slits, abysses, fear, peaks, clarity, calm. Remote lands with forests and birds. A semiconscious state that makes distant and archaic memories transparent."

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 credited as “courtesy of David Nolan Gallery and copyright of the artist’s estate”, unless otherwise noted in the file title.