2025-2026 Artist Studio News

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I Want to Know, I Need to Know

Eli Klein Gallery is honored to present “Andrius Alvarez-Backus: I Want to Know, I Need to Know,” the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, debuting six major multimedia sculptures and a series of works on panel. Emerging from a series of health incidents experienced by the artist and his family over the past year, the exhibition examines the intersection of the artist’s primal pursuit of self-knowledge and the denial of a fully transparent answer in its process.

ORDINARY IMPERMANENCE

Their duo show thus becomes an experiment in shared sensibility–perhaps a breaking-out of sensorial isolation. For viewers accustomed to the constant pulse of overstimulation, the quiet charge of visual intimacy these works offer may feel revelatory. Despite belonging to a generation often defined by impermanence and individualism, Park and Alvarez-Backus remind us that even fleeting connections leave a lasting impression.