Y.Z. Kami: Black Dome Jorge Fernandez Torres The exhibition included recent paintings

The exhibition included recent paintings in which the artist continues to meditate on the melancholy of the Psycho Spaghetti Westerns in complex pictures that conflate his signature elements with the visual devices

and hybridizations in architectural evolution

The works are illuminated with texts by Russell Ferguson

the publication also includes photographs of sunflowers from a public school garden in Clinton Hill

This painting was first presented in the artist’s debut solo gallery exhibition in New York City at Annina Nosei Gallery in 1982

Y.Z. Kami: Black Dome Jorge Fernandez Torres The exhibition included recent paintingsY. Z. Kami created Black Dome, an iteration of his Dome paintings, in 2018. It recalls the concentric forms the artist saw in Persian architecture as a teenager, and later observed in Byzantine churches and basilicas. For Kami, the dome inspires contemplation and is a metaphor for the heavens.