ARDEN + WHITE GALLERY is pleased to present Chroma, Aythamy Armas's inaugural exhibition with the gallery, organized in collaboration with Alzueta Gallery. The exhibition brings together eleven paintings in which color, line, and circular form become carriers of sensation-expressing an interior state while shaping the viewer's emotional experience.
For Armas, painting is inseparable from lived experience. Each body of work retains something of the atmosphere in which it was made. As the artist observes, "A group of paintings from a particular period speaks…to that specific period." Color is his most immediate means of articulating this relationship: as a mode of expression, it can reveal an emotional state; through observation, it can alter our own.
Ten of the eleven paintings are monochromatic, allowing Armas to explore the character, intensity, and psychological resonance of a single hue. Through shifts in saturation, density, and translucency, each color establishes its own atmosphere. It may soothe or intensify, advance or recede, gather weight or appear to dissolve. The only painting to bring two colors into direct relationship creates a distinct moment within the exhibition-a chromatic exchange that heightens our awareness of the singularity of the surrounding works.
This new body of work reflects a turn toward restraint and compositional calm. Rather than relying on dramatic contrast, Armas creates visual depth through the measured relationship among color, line, and form. Circular forms drift across the surfaces as lines pass between, around, and through them, guiding the eye without determining a fixed path. As Armas explains, the line seeks to distribute the forms "without disrupting the rhythm of the compositions."
Movement and equilibrium remain in careful balance. Circles gather and disperse; lines connect and divide; forms hover between emergence and dissolution. Rather than offering a singular interpretation, the paintings create an environment in which perception can slow. Their effect changes with duration, proximity, and the viewer's own state of mind. Armas describes the works as "a quiet presence-one that accompanies rather than demands."
Across Chroma, color becomes both expression and encounter: a register of the artist's lived moment and a force that acts upon the viewer in return. Quiet yet assured, the exhibition reveals how a single hue can hold depth, atmosphere, and feeling, and how the relationships among paintings can extend that experience beyond the boundaries of each canvas forming a broader chromatic field.