White Columns is pleased to present an exhibition by Wantage, NJ-based artist Goran Medak (b. 1950, Split, Croatia.) Formally educated as an engineer but self-taught as an artist, Medak’s fantastical paintings operate in a liminal space, somewhere between abstraction and representation. Informed by Old Masters like Pieter Bruegel the Elder as much as they are daily life, Medak resists observational painting, a mode that he calls “looking out the window.” Instead, his works are highly aware of the picture plane, negotiating and choreographing disparate elements – and negative space – into compositions that juxtapose fields of color with areas of filigree-like detail. Medak’s exhibition at White Columns — the artist’s first in New York — presents a selection of earlier works from the 1980s and ’90s alongside a more recent series produced throughout the past six years, after the artist’s retirement from his career as a general contractor.

PRESS:

Whitehot Magazine – “Run To See Goran Medak at White Columns (closing soon!)”

White Columns is pleased to present “Overproof,” a solo exhibition by New York-based artist Karryl Eugene (b. 1998). “Overproof” features a range of works across painting, collage, assemblage, and sound, and debuts the artist’s new EP, No More Evening Plans, consisting of five tracks presented as part of a sound installation within the exhibition. The works on view amplify ideas that have become central to Eugene’s practice over the past five years since earning his BFA in 2020. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to concepts of masculinity, language, desire, portraiture, and community, “Overproof” interrogates what it means to be ‘masculine’ today, and the sociological effects of manhood on both self and others.

PERFORMANCE:

Karryl Eugene’s Disobedient Tunes for West Side Fest

White Columns is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Oswald Saenz (b. 1964, Medellín, Colombia). The artist is currently associated with YAI Arts, a nonprofit studio supporting artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities in NYC. Working entirely from his imagination, and often through the middle of the night, Saenz’s drawings depict familiar, quotidian subjects – women, houses, flowers etc. – distilling them down to their most fundamental curves and contours and infusing them with hallucinatory color, wobbling rhythm, and traces of spirit made flesh.

PROGRAM:

Images from live drawing workshop with YAI Arts and Abby Lloyd

White Columns’ 2026 summer programs focus on the work of artists who are currently represented in White Columns’ Curated Artist Registry, and have been organized by Violet Saxon (Curatorial Assistant) and Adeja Sterling (Gallery Assistant). Founded in the early 1980s the Registry provides a platform for artists – of all kinds – currently without gallery representation in New York. The Registry currently includes the work of more than 500 individual artists

The Curated Artists Registry is open for submissions through August 6, 2026. To learn more about the Registry and how to submit your work for consideration, please visit: registry.whitecolumns.org

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