Sun Sign
Maggie Friedman, Veronica Gelbaum, Hanna Hur, Artem Nanushyan, Jon Pestoni, Lauren Quin
February 21 - March 21 , 2026

Opening Reception: Saturday, February 21st, 3-6 pm

Zodiac Pictures is thrilled to present the inaugural exhibition at its new location, Sun Sign, featuring works by Maggie Friedman, Veronica Gelbaum, Hanna Hur, Artem Nanushyan, Jon Pestoni, and Lauren Quin.

The exhibition brings together six distinct painting practices, each defined by a highly developed and recognizable visual language. While their approaches differ, these artists share a commitment to painting as a reflective medium - one that engages its histories, materials, and conditions while asserting its capacity to respond to contemporary life.

The exhibition takes its name from the previous tenant of the new gallery space, a commercial sign shop called ‘Sun Sign’. The title playfully draws parallels between astrology and art, pointing to the structures through which meaning is organized and interpreted.

According to C.G. Jung, astrology began as an early form of psychological inquiry, functioning as a symbolic system for understanding the psyche. The zodiac operates as a network of archetypes. Sun, moon, and rising signs serve as coordinates, mapping consciousness, emotion, and social persona within an interconnected framework.

Drawing on this analogy, Sun Sign considers how artists develop their own symbolic systems to organize aesthetics, perception, and historical reference. Across the exhibition, the paintings reflect on their own production while engaging broader histories and visual languages, generating meaning through recurrence, citation, and variation.

Like a sun sign, the works articulate a singular presence while forming constellations through relation and interplay. Through their material, gestural, and temporal processes, each painting reveals its own character while orienting itself within a larger aesthetic and cultural framework, presenting painting as a practice defined by individuality and context.