Conduit Gallery is honored to announce Then to now, a solo exhibition of monotypes created in 1985 as well as a series of recent small-scale oil stick paintings on paper by New York-based artist Mary Dinaburg.

This focused presentation brings together five vibrant monotypes, each alive with movement, color and painterly freedom. The 1985 monotypes offer a compelling look at Dinaburg’s exploration of abstraction during a dynamic period of her practice and remain strikingly contemporary in their bold palette and immersive dynamism.

Created through the immediacy of the monotype process—a printmaking technique that yields a single, unique impression—these works embody both spontaneity and control. Sweeping arcs of saturated reds, violets, blues, greens, and yellows collide and unfurl across the paper surface. The compositions suggest organic forms in flux - waves cresting and folding, wind-whipped foliage, muscular curves, and tidal currents. While Dinaburg’s 1985 monotypes reveal a confident command of line and mass, the small-scale oilstick paintings from 2024 offer a softer, more open, calligraphic approach to mark making. Both bodies of work resist fixed interpretation, instead inviting viewers into a sensorial encounter with color and gesture.

Mary Dinaburg is an American artist whose work explores abstraction through gesture, color, and form. Working across painting and printmaking, she has developed a practice defined by expressive movement and a deep engagement with material process. Mary Dinaburg has participated in the artworld in various capacities. Her projects have taken her around the world to Asia , Europe and the US . From making her own artwork to curating major exhibitions for artists such as Julian Schnabel , Sigmar Polke , Willian Wegman , etc and institutions such as the Royal Academy of Art, multiple museum exhibitions in Shanghai , Beijing and Nanjing and galleries in South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong. She has advised for the EDC in Singapore and the Watergate Bank in Seoul in relation to Art Center /Gallery strategies.