March 28 – April 25, 2026

Opening reception on Saturday March 28, from 2 – 5 pm

To enter Vickie Vainionpää’s Tempest is to find it already surging towards you: a line accelerating, doubling back, thinning to a filament and then flooding. Colour arrives in surges of ochre and rust. Blue cuts cold through hazes of white. Forms writhe and knot, swell with volume before tapering to nothing. Each form pulls against the others, crossing where they meet.

Vainionpää’s compositions begin in virtual reality, the body moving through three- dimensional space, drawing in air. From there the work passes through layers of digital texturing and filtering before arriving as pastel and oil on canvas. What appears untamed, its storm-like momentum, is meticulously orchestrated. Lines multiply, colours flare and fracture, forms swell and taper. These movements belong to the same systems whose accelerating momentum the paintings register. The forces these works hold are not something observed from afar; they form the atmosphere through which their marks move and take shape.

Image: Installation View of Tempest. Courtesy of LFDocumention