Additions

Every gallery program is defined as much by what it adds as by what it holds. Additions names the act explicitly: two artists joining the permanent JG roster after years of conversation, studio visits, and certainty that their work belongs here.

Ross Collado brings a figurative practice rooted in psychological weight — his paintings hold the evidence of people who have just left the room. Tamera Abaté's encaustic surfaces require a kind of looking that slows the viewer down: thirty layers of beeswax fused with fire, each one altering what came before. Both practices reward the kind of sustained attention that distinguishes a collector from a buyer.