Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY
On View September 17th, 2026 – October 31st, 2026.
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 17th
Edwynn Houk Gallery is pleased to announce Abelardo Morell: Out of Paper, In Dialogue with Gene Davis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski & Larry Poons, opening September 17 from 6 to 8pm. The exhibition presents recent photographs by Morell alongside an exemplary painting by each of the named Color Field artists. It is Morell’s sixth exhibition with the gallery and the first time the gallery has presented painting alongside photography.
Morell’s new abstraction series is built around that shift. Working with colored construction paper and painted plywood, Morell makes photographs that push beyond representation. On first encounter, his bands of color read like the smooth vertical stripes of Davis or the geometric fields of Noland. Sustained looking reveals the pulp and grain of paper, the texture of wood, and sculptural qualities that the photograph initially concealed. In those veins, the photographs find company in Olitski’s sculptural construction of color and Poons’ layered rivulets. Placed alongside these paintings, Morell’s photographs extend their invitation: to experience color and light as perceptual events in themselves.
Abelardo Morell: Out of Paper / In Dialogue with Gene Davis, Kenneth Noland & Jules Olitski
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Abundance: New Acquisitions from 2016-2026
The University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
August 18th - December 5th, 2026
Abundance: New Acquisitions from 2016 to 2026 celebrates a decade of generosity and vision at the University of New Mexico Art Museum (UNMAM). Featuring works acquired through gifts and purchases during the last 10 years, the exhibition offers viewers the opportunity to experience the evolving story of the UNMAM collection, and includes prints, photographs, paintings and sculpture created from 1810 to 2024 by 44 artists.
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Picture Space
Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario, Canada
June 6th - November 1st, 2026
The artists on view here each play with surface textures and the materials of their photographs. In their own ways, they expand two-dimensional picture space into three dimensions, and call attention to framing—be it of the camera, the scanner, the computer screen, or the walls of a room. They highlight how the act of making a photograph transforms what we see, and thus what we experience.
Picture Space brings together artworks by Barbara Astman, Sandra Brewster, Anne Collier, Chris Curreri, Luther Konadu, Suzy Lake, Scott McFarland, Abelardo Morell, Michael Snow, Alec Soth, Cheryl Sourkes, Ian Wallace and James Welling.
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Finding Alice: Artists Exploring Wonderland
Provo City Library at Academy Square
September 1st - October 20th 2026
Finding Alice: Artists Exploring Wonderland, featuring Abelardo Morell will be on display from September 1st - October 20th, 2026. This exhibition is toured by Exhibits USA, the national touring exhibition program of Mid-America Arts Alliance.Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, first published in 1865, the exhibition explores the enduring influence of this classic story on artists across generations through photography, illustration, and book art.
Finding Alice contains works from two photographic series by acclaimed artist Abelardo Morell, alongside multiple illustrated editions of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland featuring work by Andrea D’Aquino, Salvador Dalí, Camille Rose Garcia, Yayoi Kusama, Oleg Lipchenko, Peter Newell, Evgeny Alexandrovich Shukaev, among others.
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Technological Transformations: Experimentation and Photography
Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Ongoing
The artworks in this installation demonstrate that the history of photography is characterized by persistent experimentation. Since the early nineteenth century, this developing medium has been continually reinvented and reconsidered, shaped by technology and changing dialogues surrounding photography’s use in relation to culture, documentary image-making, and fine art.
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Ecstatic Time: The Alchemy of Photography
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
July 29th 2026 - January 3, 2027
Spanning the medium’s history, Ecstatic Time: The Alchemy of Photography explores how photography transforms how we see and reshapes our understanding of time, perception, and reality.