Announcing My Upcoming Exhibition in Puerto Rico 15-31 May 2025

Announcing My Upcoming Exhibition

I’m thrilled to announce that my first exhibition of 2025, Spandrel Spaces: The Art of In-between, will open this May at the Museo de Arte e Historia Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos in Patillas, Puerto Rico.

This exhibition brings together over 30 of my recent paintings—created throughout 2024 and into 2025—all of which have never been shown publicly. It feels especially meaningful to open this body of work here in Patillas, a place I’ve called home for many years. As the director of Las Casas de la Selva, a long-term sustainable forestry project nestled in the rainforest above the town, my art and life are deeply rooted in this landscape. To share this work for the first time in the very community where it was created is both an honor and a homecoming.

The title Spandrel Spaces references both architecture and evolutionary theory. In design, a spandrel is the unexpected space that forms between structural elements. In biology, it describes features that arise as byproducts of other adaptations. I’ve found this idea of the “in-between” incredibly resonant—not only in ecological systems, but in emotional, metaphysical, and artistic processes. These paintings explore thresholds: between form and formlessness, stability and collapse, chaos and emergence.

Much of the work reflects time spent in the rainforest—observing, absorbing, documenting. Other pieces spiral inward, into psychological terrains, channeling the unseen energies that shape the visible world. Some titles take the form of invented Latin binomials, suggesting a taxonomy for inner states or imagined species; others reflect more turbulent, chthonic forces.

The exhibition will be held at the Museo de Arte e Historia Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos, located on Calle Luis Muñoz Rivera in the heart of Patillas. The museum is a beautiful and welcoming space, fully wheelchair accessible and infused with the cultural character of this town. I’m grateful for the opportunity to show my work in such a meaningful setting—right here where so many of these pieces were born.

In the coming weeks, I’ll be sharing more insights into the process, previewing select works, and reflecting on the themes behind Spandrel Spaces. I hope you’ll follow along—and if you’re nearby this May, I’d love to see you at the opening on Saturday 17th May at 5.30pm.

– 3t