Nick Modrzewski: Misbehaviour in the Age of Geometry

COMA is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Australian-born, Santa Fe-based artist Justin Williams (b.1984) titled Waiting for Lavender, on view Friday 31 January - 22 February. This is the artist's fourth solo presentation with the gallery and taking place at our new gallery location.

As always, Modrzewski is thinking about systems of control - language, law, social etiquette; organisation; and how these ideas play out on bodies (human and animal) and the ways we might distort or blur these boundaries. On one level, i think the title evokes historical shifts—like how the Enlightenment brought a rationalist lens to governance, architecture, and societal order. On another, it hints at the abstract: how geometry (grids, lines, symmetry) becomes a metaphor for control, even in absurd or irrational contexts.