Ochi is pleased to introduce Adrian Ocone, presenting Where things go, a solo exhibition by the New York-based painter. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Where Things Go will be on view at Ochi, located at 119 Lewis Street in Ketchum, Idaho from July 18 through September 19, 2025.

The paintings in Where things go emerge from a dialogue between impulse and materiality. Chaos, entropy, and gravity are not just subjects but active agents in Adrian Ocone’s studio. Developed non-linearly—sometimes across twenty surfaces at once—the works evolve without predefined subject or structure: pigments are pushed until each composition’s internal logic begins to disintegrate. Accumulation and ambiguity drive abrupt shifts of scale, as figure and ground blur into camouflaged extremes or polarize into stark contrasts. What appears as spontaneous disarray is, in fact, a rigorous investigation of pictorial collapse, each mark a monad in an ever-sprawling and precarious formal language.

In Where things go, Ocone explores how contemporary landscapes—and the images we construct of them—remain in flux, oscillating between the stability of imagined systems and the inevitable dissolution of all such dreams.