David Nolan Gallery is delighted to announce its first solo show of one of Latin America’s most significant yet under recognized artists, Rodolfo Abularach (Guatemalan, 1933-2020). This is the first full-scale gallery exhibition in New York to explore the breadth of the artist’s work.

Rodolfo Abularach: A cosmic vision is a bicoastal collaboration with Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, where a simultaneous presentation of Abularach’s work will be on view from June 26 through August 9. Along with these concurrent exhibitions, David Nolan Gallery and Marc Selwyn Fine Art are pleased to announce publication of the first major monograph dedicated to the artist, for which art historian, writer, and curator Gavin Delahunty, artist and curator Gabriel Rodríguez Pellecer, and curator Rudy F. Weissenberg have contributed insightful essays.

Throughout his over six-decade-long career, Abularach created a fascinating spiritual world filled with images of planetary forms, mandalas, and earthly and psychological portals. His most famous subject was the eye, which he saw as a window into the soul. His interest in the mysteries of the earth also led him to depict volcanoes, emblems of the artist’s Guatemalan homeland and ancient history. Abularach mastered and explored a variety of styles, from hyperrealistic to abstract, monochrome to multicolored, esoteric to surreal. He was known for his virtuosity in multiple media, including painting, drawing, and printmaking.

The exhibitions at David Nolan Gallery and Marc Selwyn Fine Art will highlight the major themes Abularach explored throughout his career. A selected group of works on paper and paintings will illustrate the artist’s evolution from enigmatic circular forms and abstract mandalas to the human eye in all its possible variations, and dramatic depictions of volcanic eruptions, inspired by Dante’s Inferno and Popol vuh, the sacred book of the Quiché Maya People.