On View: Atlas: Understanding the Curation

Caroline Dechamby is a Swiss‑based artist whose practice spans three decades and encompasses painting, fashion, and design. Dechamby’s work often reinterprets art history through the insertion of her own presence into historical paintings, challenging conventional artistic hierarchies and championing female empowerment within a traditionally male‑dominated canon. 

 

By re‑imagining iconic works and placing her figure on plexiglass, she invites viewers, especially women, to envision themselves within that lineage and claims narrative agency for underrepresented voices.

Christopher “Flore” Florentino is a contemporary American artist based in New York whose style he terms Urban Cubism, blending street art with abstraction.

 

Drawing inspiration from graffiti culture, mid-century modern design, and artists like Basquiat and Haring, Flore’s work often incorporates text, layered forms, and dynamic color fields that reflect urban life and personal narrative.

Modern Painter and Boom For Real exemplify his approach: they combine expressive gestures with geometric structure and layered meaning, inviting viewers to engage with feeling and language rather than literal representation.

Max Steven Grossman is a Colombian-born, Florida-based conceptual photographer internationally recognized for his Bookscapes, monumental photographic compositions that conjure libraries that exist only in the digital realm.

Born in Barranquilla, Colombia in 1971, Grossman studied engineering at the University of Philadelphia before earning a Master of Arts in Photography from New York University and the International Center of Photography. That dual background, precision and imagination in equal measure, defines his practice entirely.

In the Bookscapes, Grossman photographs book spines across bookstores, archives, and private collections worldwide, then digitally assembles them into themed libraries organized around subjects like music, cinema, fashion, and sport. The compositions are technically meticulous and conceptually layered: printed at monumental scale, they read as actual shelves while quietly asking what it means to collect, remember, and preserve. Soccer WC 26 and Hip Hop V bring that same archival impulse to culture and sport, each shelf a portrait of a world we already know, reassembled into something new.

J. Margulis (Jose Margulis) is a Venezuelan-born artist (b. 1970, Caracas) whose work  whose work explores perception, movement, and light through geometric abstraction. Influenced by kinetic and optical art traditions, his pieces centre on the physical experience of viewing. Works shift visually as the viewer moves, creating a meditative and almost hypnotic experience.

His works are constructed through layered geometric elements that shift subtly depending on light, angle, and movement. Sleep Aid exemplifies Margulis’s precise approach, using layered acrylic, aluminum, and light to transform form and color into dynamic perceptual experiences. The work invites sustained looking, revealing gradual changes rather than immediate impact.

 He currently lives and works in Miami, and his pieces are part of international collections and exhibited at galleries and art fairs around the world.