Featuring: Mark Bowles, John Maxon, Gustavo Ramos Rivera, David Skillicorn, and William Wray
Whitney Modern is proud to present Fire in the Sky, an exhibition ignited by the expressive power of color and light. This dynamic show brings together five accomplished painters—Mark Bowles, John Maxon, Gustavo Ramos Rivera, David Skillicorn, and William Wray—whose works radiate with intensity, emotion, and atmosphere.
Each artist explores the meeting point between the tangible and the transcendent, where sky and spirit converge. Some approach through abstraction, like Gustavo Ramos Rivera, whose gestural, symbol-laden compositions radiate emotional depth, and David Skillicorn, whose layered, luminous forms suggest light emerging from within. Mark Bowles, John Maxon, and William Wray bring their own interpretations of impressionistic realism, capturing fleeting light and atmospheric drama that evoke both serenity and awe.
Fire in the Sky celebrates the vast emotional spectrum of color—its capacity to move, to heal, and to transform. Together, these works reveal beauty in both intensity and calm, abstraction and atmosphere, the seen and the felt.