Saturation Point

Uprise Art is pleased to present Saturation Point, an exhibition of new work by Angel Oloshove, Erin D. Garcia, Evi O. and Sarah Ingraham.. Each artist, whether working in painting or sculpture, approaches color as a central language that holds conceptual and sensory weight. Through vibrant clashes, carefully calibrated gradients, and luminous glazes, color becomes a tool for building meaning, exploring awareness, and expressing emotion.

Oloshove’s vividly glazed ceramic works appear vaporous and cloud-like, belying their physical weight and gravity-bound forms. This latest collection emerges from the artist’s meditative encounters with nature, in which attention is paid to quiet, often overlooked rhythms. The pieces invite a shift in perspective, a reflection on not only how we see the natural world, but also how it might perceive us in return. Acting as reciprocal portals, the works hold space for viewers to project their own experiences of nature, while encouraging reflection on our place within it. Through this exchange, nature is framed as a site of healing, wonder, and altered perception. In stepping beyond ourselves, we are reminded of the deep interconnectivity between humans and the Earth, and the urgent need to protect our fragile resources.

Ingraham’s paintings transform floral forms into bold tableaus, where twisting stems anchor vibrating compositions, and color and pattern collide. Drawing inspiration from the rhythms of domestic spaces, this new body of work explores the dynamic and sentimental resonance of color. Bouquets and blooms emerge with distinct personalities, often becoming stand-ins for the artist’s inner world. Color acts as a conduit for memory and emotion - pinks, reds, and salmons typically linked to femininity, carry undertones of frustration or anger, while bright greens convey a more neutral, introspective mood. Pushing against traditional ideas of beauty and balance, Ingraham embraces color clashes and compositional chaos. The more intense and complex the combination, the more satisfying the challenge to restore order. In this tension between control and improvisation, decoration and expression, her florals take on a deeper, more personal power.

In 'Saturation Point', color operates as more than a surface treatment, it becomes a vehicle for memory, movement, sensation, and transformation.

Evi O. continuously explores and observes the world around her. Her art practice is rooted in a deep desire to investigate and express the nature of human curiosity, translating that impulse into vivid pictorial abstractions infused with sentiment and humor. Color is the cornerstone of her visual language, finely balanced and carefully orchestrated within compositions that are distilled and abstracted. A multidisciplinary creative, Evi. O’s design practice brings a sense of visual clarity, structure, and intention to her work. For Saturation Point, Evi O. presents a suite of acrylic works on panel, each marked by bold symbols and vibrant patterns that wrap around the wood substrate, allowing the pieces to function more like three-dimensional objects than two-dimensional paintings. Playful yet deliberate, Evi O.’s works offer a thoughtful response to the environment she inhabits, acting as a conduit through which she engages with the world.

Garcia’s simultaneously minimal and maximal paintings are composed of floating and overlapping shapes and gradients that appear effortless, yet are the result of a meticulous, rule-based process. Each work is built from a concise set of simple forms distilled to their essence, that are systematically arranged according to self-imposed structures. These systems evolve with each piece, constantly shifting and permutating to generate new visual outcomes. In exploring the tension between structure and spontaneity, Garcia invites viewers to consider the dynamic interplay of form, color, and spatial rhythm. His distinct visual vocabulary becomes a tool for discovery, emphasizing how repetition, subtle variation, and intentional constraint can yield surprising complexity. Through this process-driven approach, Garcia’s work examines how meaning and movement can emerge from quiet compositions, offering a meditation on perception, order, and transformation.

In Saturation Point, color operates as more than a surface treatment, it becomes a vehicle for memory, movement, sensation, and transformation. From Oloshove’s otherworldly glazes and Garcia’s chromatic gradients, to Ingraham’s vibratory palette, and Evi O.’s playful patterning, each artist invites us to consider the expressive power of hue and tone. Here, each artist’s work demonstrates how color can offer structure or rupture, harmony or tension - always prompting us to feel, to notice, and to reflect. As viewers, we are invited into a vivid spectrum of experiences, where color leads the way.

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