During the Age of Modernism, artists worldwide used new imagery, materials, and techniques to create artworks that they felt better reflected the realities and hopes of modern societies. With a utopian vision of human life and culture and armed with idealism and reasoning, modernist artists believed that they could find a way of purely reflecting the modern world. 

Late Modernism encompasses the overall production of abstract art made between World War II and the early 21st Century in the visual arts. But Modern Art is not just art produced during a specific time frame. This art genre has its approach and style that distinguishes it from others and still influences contemporary artists. Whether following abstraction, expressionism, color field, geometric, or minimalism, contemporary artists' practices still fall well within these modernist canons.

According to Roger Griffin, a British professor of modern history, Modernism sought to restore a "sense of sublime order and purpose to the contemporary world."

At the beginning of the 21st-century contemporary art continues in several contiguous modes, characterized by the idea of pluralism. Today, we not only continue to live in an era of rapid change, but we also continue to grapple with the fact that some of the biggest promises of modernity remain unfulfilled.

Modernism is as alive and relevant today, inspiring and guiding contemporary artists on their practices as they search for an authentic response to a much-changed world.

Critics and artists operating within the pure strains of abstraction have often suggested that Geometric Abstraction represents the height of non-objective art practice. Geometric Abstraction is a solution to the need for modernist painting to reject illusionistic traditions while addressing the inherently two-dimensional nature of the picture plane. Geometricizing tendencies also influenced abstract sculpture.

The artists in this exhibition expose some of the contemporary strains of Modernism while working in Geometric Abstraction. They are working on new materials, exploring novel processes, pursuing pure abstraction, employing reductive geometries, and seeking a refined way to reflect the ever-changing world surrounding us. 

Christopher Martin is a pioneer in the exploration of reverse glass paintings. Working on the back of Lucite panels, Martin deposits layer upon layer of diluted acrylic paint infused with iridescent pigments until it fully covers the material's transparency. As Simone Bretz, a former curator of the Munich Metropolitan Museum and noted expert in reverse glass painting, states, "Well-executed reverse-glass paintings do not reveal the complexity of their manufacture. Since painting occurs on the back of glass panes, they must be built up in reverse – starting with the foreground and working "backward" – making corrections virtually impossible."

Martin is not strange to late Modernism. In his practice, he alternates from purely Abstract Expressionism to Geometric Abstraction.

In his series, Bala and Aria discs, Martin reduces the brushstrokes to fine lines of color that follow the shape of the plane, whether square or circular. The Prismatic series marries the two ideas with concentric circular lines inside an edge-to-edge color field painting. 

In his tridimensional wall pieces, Khabbaz creates a sense of movement and transformation through organic fluidity of color and visual geometric compositions, allowing the viewer to have their individual experience and interpretation of each piece.

Also, painting in reverse, Jean-Paul Khabbaz builds acrylic layered painted constructions. His work draws its bold sense of individualism and vivid use of color from the artist's rich cultural experiences throughout his life as a Latin American of Lebanese descent raised in America. His work references Latin American masters Carlos Cruz Diez one of the greatest artistic innovators of the 20th Century, and Jesus Rafael Soto's advances in Op Art and research on the dematerialization of form.

Kinga Czerska devotes her time to studying different patterns and structures found in architecture, engineering, animal kingdom, stars and galaxies, and the human body and psyche.

Czerska is amazed at the intricacies of the natural and artificial environments and the exceptional detail that allows each piece to fit, creating a graceful, precise, elegant, and balanced world.

Czerska reflects this quest in exquisitely painted acrylic layered panels. Her pursuit is to understand how all the elements fit together and, most notably, how one can affect everything as all the aspects interlace, change, shift, and reconfigure.

Matt Neuman is a painter and printmaker based in the Bronx, NY. Interested in the visual interplay of color, line, geometry, and repetition, he creates optically dense compositions that reverberate within the confines of his surface.

Neuman's work engages with geometric abstraction to provide structural logic that resonates with humanity's instinctive tendency to organize information.

Neuman explains: "I approach printmaking like a painter, inking fast, making marks, and throwing the color around without concern for cleanliness or perfection. I can then impose a certain mechanical precision on an otherwise very fluid and painterly process through print processes."

Mexican artist Guillermo "Miki" Gutiérrez explores new expression techniques with different materials to achieve a perfect balance between aesthetics and the transmission of positive feelings to viewers.

The various works in the exhibition are made in bronze, stone, wood carving, and, of the latter, some have details in gold or silver leaf to give them light and infuse them with life. Miki has had over 70 solo exhibitions and more than 200 collective ones. He has exhibited at 50 museums. Currently, his work is showing in Hong Kong, Singapore, Los Angeles, Vail, San Diego, Miami, Scottsdale, New York City, Londo, Paris, Geneva, Monaco, Israel, Beirut, and Dubai.