Untitled Houston 2025: Booth B30

For its first participation in Untitled Art Houston, ABC-ARTE presents a focused two-person exhibition featuring Antonio Kuschnir and Zach Harris—two artists from different geographies and generations, yet deeply connected by a shared interest in transcending the visible through layered, symbolic, and visionary compositions.

While their formal languages differ—Kuschnir working within a figuration infused with myth and memory, and Harris elaborating abstract cosmologies through meticulously carved and painted surfaces—both artists explore the porous boundaries between matter and spirit, self and environment, the earthly and the transcendent.

Antonio Kuschnir (b. 2001, Rio de Janeiro) creates emotionally charged, dreamlike paintings inhabited by ambiguous characters, fragmented figures, and lush, symbolic landscapes. Drawing on Brazilian folklore, classical mythology, and collective memory, Kuschnir’s works function as visual “auto-mythologies”—narratives that merge personal identity with archetypal storytelling. His compositions dissolve conventional perspective, inviting viewers into suspended worlds where the natural and the magical coexist. In these richly painted canvases, body and background interweave, reflecting a fascination with transformation, liminality, and the theatrical.

Zach Harris (b. 1976, Santa Rosa, CA) introduces a parallel but metaphysical dimension to the exhibition. His practice blurs the lines between painting, sculpture, and architecture, drawing inspiration from sources as diverse as Kazimir Malevich, Persian miniature, Italian Renaissance altarpieces, and Tibetan mandalas. Harris crafts multidimensional visual environments through hand-carved wooden panels, laser-etched frames, and vividly painted linen surfaces. His intricate geometric compositions—part cosmogram, part psychic landscape—invite the viewer into meditative states where utopia and dystopia, vision and illusion, coexist. Harris’s works are not mere objects; they are portals, visual meditations on spiritual energy, time, and the cosmos.