BARBARA TAKENAGA: ACROSS THE UNIVERSE

Opening Reception: Friday, September 11th, 5-8pm

September 11th - October 10th, 2026

From the microscopic to the cosmic, Barbara Takenaga’s paintings invite us to look a little closer.

We are thrilled to present five works by Takenaga in the Projects Space at Philip Slein Gallery this Friday September 11th, 5-8pm, celebrating an extraordinary moment in her career and her upcoming major exhibition at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City.

Opening October 8, Barbara Takenaga: Awestruck is the artist’s first comprehensive survey in nearly a decade. Bringing together approximately 50 works spanning 25 years of her practice, the exhibition explores Takenaga’s remarkable approach to abstraction, where meticulous repetition,
chance, color and movement create worlds that seem to hover somewhere between the cellular and the cosmic.

That sense of scale is at the heart of what makes Takenaga’s paintings so mesmerizing. What initially appears microscopic can suddenly become expansive; a constellation becomes a cell, a landscape becomes a galaxy, and a field of tiny points seems to stretch into infinity.

In celebration of this major achievement, we are presenting five works in our Projects Space under the title Barbara Takenaga: Across the Universe.