GR gallery is pleased to present Misfits, the first New York City solo exhibition by Daniel Nunez. The exhibition brings together a new body of work comprising paintings on canvas and drawings, offering an in-depth look at the artist’s most recent explorations.

One of the best elements of Nuñez’s work is the playfulness and the ability to take a small idea and make it large. He let’s his imagination, and a bit of childlike wonder, become gigantic. The gallery notes that the artist explores “everyday life through a lens of irony, freedom, and quiet rebellion,” but I think almost more importantly is the ability to make the possibilty of art seem larger than life. Through a series of larger scale canvases and a smaller works, he presents works that feel full of spirit and almost free of inhibition. 

As the gallery notse, “The four large-scale canvases that constitute the core of ‘Misfits’ maintain the fundamental elements of the artist’s visual lexicon while radically reconfiguring compositional structure and spatial organization. These works advance a design freedom that is simultaneously forceful and controlled, achieving a balance between expressive intensity and formal restraint. As such, the series marks a decisive moment in Nuñez artistic evolution and possibly an initial step toward a more profound and transformative reorientation of his practice.” 

The show also allows for the viewer to think about what a painting is used for. Nunez has successfully combined the idea of what it felt like to want to be an artist as a child and the ability to execute with maturity as you get older. There is a wonderful juxtaposition here, youthful energy and matured visions. —Evan Pricco