Between Structure and Spirit, installation view · Collective Z, New York · 2026
Collective Z is pleased to present Between Structure and Spirit, the first solo exhibition with the gallery by New York–based painter Bill Burns, and his second in the city. The exhibition gathers a new body of paintings that navigate the charged terrain between discipline and intuition, the material and the transcendent — canvases in which color accumulates and disperses with a quality that is atmospheric rather than architectural, as if feeling, not form, were the organizing principle.
Some works press toward light with an almost devotional persistence, color straining through earlier layers as if reaching for clarity. Others carry the heat of a present moment, the world’s pressures not separate from the studio but continuous with it. Throughout, Burns sustains a conviction that luminosity is not a property of paint but of attention — earned slowly, decision by decision, gesture beneath gesture.
We hope you will join us this Saturday, when the artist will be present, and the work will have its first full evening in company.
Installation Views
A first look at the exhibition, as the work is living in the rooms. Photographs can only intimate; the paintings ask to be looked at slowly, at close range, until the layering reveals itself.
A sequence of six small works reading across the long wall — a single weather moving through.
Paired canvases in the main room, held in a quiet conversation of warm and cool.
The works do not preach; they breathe. They ask not to be analysed but to be attended to — to be stood with, until something interior shifts. We would be glad to receive you, at the opening or in the weeks that follow.
Bill Burns: Between Structure and Spirit
On view 15 April – 2 May 2026
Opening reception: Saturday, 18 April · 6 – 8 PM
325 Broome Street, New York, NY
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