Inman Gallery is pleased to present Ever Ever, More More, a solo exhibition of recent paintings by Yevgeniya Baras, on view May 16 – July 3, 2026. Please join us for an exhibition walkthrough with the artist on Saturday, May 16 at 1:00pm, followed by an opening reception from 2:00–4:00pm. This event celebrates a concurrent solo exhibition by Loc Huynh.
Yevgeniya Baras creates tactile abstractions that straddle the symbolic and the mystical. Combining oil paint with various mixed media, Baras builds up her surfaces intuitively, adding new layers over time. The resulting idiosyncratic paintings are characterized by their strong bas-relief textures and vibrant colors.
Ever Ever, More More presents a body of new paintings completed within the last year. The imagery oscillates between angular grids and softer, compartmentalized shapes that evoke cells, channels, and veins. Similarly, the thick impasto dances between channeled lines and craggy peaks, each punctuated by flat recessions. The highly textured topographies evoke a sense of place, like the surface of the earth or a gridded map. Sometimes the textured forms and the painted image align as a unified object. More often, these two diverge, existing on independent but merged planes. Simultaneously harmonious and dissonant, the pigment traverses the weathered surface with both ease and resistance. This rich materiality invites the viewer to linger, asking the eye to reconcile sculptural forms with juxtaposing shape, line, and color.
Within each singular work several paintings coexist. Occasionally this union is literal: one substrate superimposed on another, one painting is enshrined by another. More often, Baras explores this concept through contrasted sensibilities. Chunky impasto juts against flat color fields of linen where the fabric weave is still visible. The fast and slow, the textured and flat, the dyed and painted, the muddy middle and the elemental edge – all encode the material transformation of the painting’s creation. The slow, architectural remnants that encrust the surface collide with the fast, decisive paint that sheaths it. Sometimes the surface is built up over years only for the final, exposed layer of paint to be built up in a month. Time passes in blips across the textured surface: the veins run slow, while the blood flows fast above.
These dualities are echoed in the exhibition’s title, “Ever Ever, More More.” Abstracted but legible, the title ruptures the word “evermore” into its elemental building blocks, copied and pieced back together, now whispered as a mantra in repetition. Baras offers this title as a kind of invocation, a reminder that to make art is to speak something into the universe, then labor towards its material existence. The continued choice to keep painting is a testament to duration, a hope that new and interesting ideas will replenish again, and again, just as each day comes one after the next.
Yevgeniya Baras (b. Syzran, Russia) holds a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania (2003) and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2007). She has exhibited her work at the Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY); White Columns (New York, NY); The Landing Gallery (Los Angeles, CA); SOCO Gallery (Charlotte, NC); Nicelle Beauchene (New York, NY); Gavin Brown Enterprise (New York, NY); and Sargent’s Daughters (New York, NY) among others. Internationally, her work has been exhibited at NBB Gallery (Berlin, Germany); Julien Cadet Gallery (Paris, France); Station Gallery (Sydney, Australia). She has received numerous awards including the Pollock-Krasner grant (2023, 2018); Senior Fulbright Scholar (2022/2023); New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (2021) and the Guggenheim Fellowship (2019). Baras lives and works in New York, NY.
