Neon Dust
Chino Amobi, Jebila Okongwu, Juan Cuéllar Costa, Lim Kaye
21st March, 2025 – 19th April, 2025
GR gallery
255 Bowery
New York, NY 10002
GR Gallery is pleased to present Neon Dust, an exhibition featuring new works by Chino Amobi, Jebila Okongwu, Juan Cuéllar Costa, and Lim Kaye. The show, which runs from 22 March to 19 April 2025, brings together 16 paintings on canvas and paper, each engaging with themes of cyberpunk and dystopian unease—visions that feel increasingly prescient in an era shaped by rapid advancements in artificial intelligence.
An opening reception will be held on Friday, 21 March, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Members of the press are invited to schedule private viewings or artist interviews ahead of the official opening.
Through striking compositions that blur the lines between human agency and technological inevitability, Neon Dust immerses viewers in a world teetering between free will and constraint, innovation and decay. The exhibition explores the paradoxes of a post-industrial society where cybernetic aesthetics meet economic precarity.
Chino Amobi crafts alternate worlds rendered in robotic forms and neon-drenched hues, where figures dissolve into dreamlike, hypermodern landscapes. Jebila Okongwu probes the tension between industrial decline and social consequence, reflecting on the overlooked realities of everyday life. Juan Cuéllar Costa’s paintings juxtapose bold, graphic structures with ghostly, fractured figures—spectres of economic instability and past violence. Lim Kaye’s stark, mechanical compositions suggest beings that are both synthetic and organic, embodying the uneasy coexistence of humanity and machine.
As artificial intelligence reshapes contemporary discourse, Neon Dust challenges viewers to confront the dual nature of technological progress—both its dystopian undercurrents and the possibility of transformation. Through these four artists, GR Gallery examines the evolving intersection of cyberculture, automation, and artistic expression.
Neon Dust opens on the 21st of March, 2025 until the 19th of April, 2025 at GR gallery, New York
©2025 GR Gallery
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