N.A.S.A.L. is pleased to present So Far, Lev Pinkus’ first solo exhibition.
Lev Pinkus (b. 1993, Port Washington, NY) is an artist based in New York City. Working primarily in painting and drawing, Pinkus explores internal dimensions where pattern and color prevail. Recurring motifs such as arches and ovals structure his compositions, evoking portals, windows, tablets, tombstones, and architectural spaces. In recent works, he incorporates text drawn from personal journal entries, integrating language into ongoing investigations of form and structure. Measuring and executing each work by hand, Pinkus embraces imperfection as a marker of human presence within otherwise precise formats. He holds an MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts (2025) and a BA in English and Creative Writing from Colby College. He has exhibited in New York and Maine.
" In Zeno’s paradox, if each step forward brings you only halfway to your goal, then the destination remains forever out of reach. The problem is conceptual: a series of halving halves that grow asymptotically. However, the answer is bodily. Upon hearing of this impossibility of motion, Diogenes solved it, we’re told, by simply standing up and walking away. Lev Pinkus’s paintings inhabit a similar refusal of abstraction for its own sake, insisting on the body and the hand in the face of automation and technological totality. His is a practice of standing up, of navigating through the physicality of painting, showing us how we are always already here. In the middle, between inner and outer spaces, primal emotion and language. Approaching the midway, the inbetweenness the works represent and produce as an artistic ethos beyond liberal compromise. Formulating reality as an emergent intersection of shared fields, a lived tempo. A soft philosophy of presence. (...) "
The Impossibility of Motion, exhibition text by Luis Enrique Zela-Koort
