Gallery Chang in Midtown Manhattan presents Illuminated Reflection, a solo exhibition by Jimi Gleason, on view from April 3 through May 6. Gleason’s practice has long explored themes of light, reflection, and temporality.
Jimi Gleason is a painter who reinterprets the aesthetics of the Light and Space Movement—which shaped the California art scene from the 1960s through the 1980s—through a painterly language. Moving beyond traditional abstraction, he employs silver nitrate, a material historically used in ancient mirror-making, allowing chemical reactions, oxidation processes, and the reflection of light to generate surfaces that continually change over time.
Within these canvases—where minimalism intersects with Light and Space—viewers encounter a synesthetic experience in which light and time unfold simultaneously. Rather than offering a purely visual encounter, Gleason’s work invites a philosophical dialogue between being and perception, material and immaterial, chance and control.
Born in Newport Beach, California, Jimi Gleason studied art at the University of California, Berkeley, and later studied printmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute. After working as a photography assistant in New York, he returned to California and worked in the studio of Ed Moses.
This exhibition coincides with Gleason’s exhibition Vapor Wave at the William Turner Gallery in Santa Monica (April 5 – May 31).
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