In conjunction with Lita Albuquerque’s exhibition Cosmic land *at the Palm Springs Art Museum and her forthcoming project with High Desert Test Sites, Michael Kohn Gallery is pleased to present a selection of the artist’s work in Gallery 3. The presentation includes works from her *Auric field series, which explores the relationship between color, light, and energy, and Najma, a celestial figure whose journey bridges the earthly and the cosmic. Also on view is a painting from a new series inspired by bodily gestures and ancient forms of mark-making, evoking a hieroglyphic language known only to the artist. Together, these works reflect Albuquerque’s ongoing exploration of the connections between humanity, nature, and the cosmos.

Through her use of color and luminous surfaces, Albuquerque investigates how visual forms can convey experiences that extend beyond the immediately visible world. The works in Auric field consider the presence of energy as both a physical phenomenon and an element of perception, inviting viewers to engage with color as a means of understanding space and their own relationship to it. Rather than functioning solely as formal compositions, these works suggest fields of interaction in which light, matter, and consciousness converge, opening a space for contemplation of the forces that shape human experience.

The figure of Najma further expands this inquiry by connecting terrestrial existence with the vastness of the celestial realm. Her journey evokes a passage between different dimensions of being, reflecting Albuquerque’s sustained interest in the relationship between the individual and the universe. Meanwhile, the artist’s new series of paintings introduces a more bodily approach to image-making, drawing on gestures and ancient marks to suggest a symbolic system that resists straightforward interpretation. These forms offer a personal visual language through which memory, movement, and the origins of communication can be explored.

Presented together, the works reveal the continuity of Albuquerque’s artistic practice, in which abstraction, symbolism, and an engagement with natural and cosmic phenomena inform one another. Her compositions encourage viewers to reconsider the boundaries between the human body, the surrounding landscape, and the larger systems of which both are a part. By bringing together earlier series and new explorations, the presentation at Michael Kohn Gallery offers an opportunity to encounter the artist’s evolving investigation into the visible and invisible connections that link humanity to the cosmos.