The 12th Made In Paint exhibition features the work of 2024 Golden Foundation residents: Inez de Brauw, Antonius-Tín Bui, Jordan Ann Craig, Regina Durante Jestrow, Hans Gindlesberger, Amra Khan, Jess Lincoln, Massiel Mafes, Lilian Martinez, Kirk Maynard, Henry Morales, David Najib Kasir, Anna Ortiz, JD Raenbeau, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Preetika Rajgariah, Ernest Shaw Jr., and Omar Rodriguez-Graham.

For a group show keyed to current events, the trick is to balance political messaging with the stream of life, achieving provocative encapsulation without preachiness. “Made in Paint, Twelve” at the Sam & Adele Golden Gallery, situated in the legendary Golden Artist Colors paint factory in New Berlin, New York, pulls this off with style and heart. The exhibition is distinguished by a measured coolness, serving diversity by example rather than bald assertion with a set of works that is gracefully integrated but not overbearingly contrived. The 18 artists represented – all participants in the twelfth iteration of the Golden Foundation’s uniquely intense and hands-on painting residency program – span a wide range of backgrounds and approaches and, to their considerable credit, tend to prioritize visual impact above overt narrative density.