Glen Rubsamen and Robert Barry present contrasting exhibitions at Galleria Alfonso Artiaco

Galleria Alfonso Artiaco presents two simultaneous solo exhibitions from March 2 to May 9, 2026. Glen Rubsamen's "Sorry, Wrong Number" features recent paintings where urban language invades pictorial surfaces through numbers, signs, and textual fragments. The California-born artist's work transforms functional elements like cell towers and streetlights into living organisms within saturated landscapes. Robert Barry's "Another Time" marks his return to the gallery since 2022 with installations using essential vocabulary of fewer than three hundred terms. Barry's practice, spanning over fifty years, shifts attention from object to thought, exemplified by his 1969 mural at the Seattle Art Museum Pavilion. Both exhibitions explore language's role in contemporary art through opposite approaches: Rubsamen's visual density versus Barry's radical clarity. Rubsamen's recent works like "The Unsuspected" (2025) and "Without Warning" (2025) integrate urban elements into landscapes where natural and artificial elements blur. Barry's word installations create tension between presence and absence, with terms like "actual" and "intimate" suggesting states rather than objects. The exhibitions create a unified experiential space examining trust in vision and language.