wild currents
GROUP EXhibition by Angélica Chavarro Franco, Ana Paul, Johannes Nielsen, Bill Claps
OCTOBER 7-28, 2026
Artist: Angélica Chavarro Franco, Ana Paúl, Johannes Nielsen, Bill Claps
Location: Crossing Art, 559 W 23rd St, New York, NY 10011
Opening Reception: Wednesday, October 7, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Presented jointly by LDM Art Global and Crossing Art, the group exhibition Wild Currents will open in October 7th-28th, 2026 at Crossing Art gallery in Chelsea, New York. Centered on the theme of "exploring the intertwined forces of humanity and nature," the exhibition brings together four contemporary artists: Angélica Chavarro Franco (Colombia), Ana Paúl (Spain), Johannes Nielsen (Sweden), and Bill Claps (New York).
Why does nature matter to us now?
Wild Currents begins with a sense that, amid the noise of daily life, we have grown distant from something to which we still belong. The forces that move through roots, tides, and weather also move through our bodies and through the artist’s hand as it works with material.
Angélica Chavarro’s repeated stitches, lived experience becomes an act of faith: each gesture holds open the possibility that life can change in ways we cannot yet see.
Ana Paúl folds paper into forms that evoke a forest, suggesting nature’s cycles of growth, return, and renewal.
Johannes Nielsen’s hand presses into clay, drawing us toward a more inward relationship. His work asks what it might mean to build, within ourselves, the sanctuary we so often seek elsewhere.
Bill Claps’ Natural Abstractions, nature becomes an ever-changing field of perception. Through photography, painting, gilding and digital processes, shifting light alters the image itself, echoing the impermanence and continual transformation of the natural world.
These works ask us to do more than look. They invite us to slow down, to notice the movement held within a stitch, a fold, a surface, or a form, and to consider how closely our own lives are bound to the world around us.
Nature offers no single answer or permanent peace. Through these acts of making, Wild Currents asks us to sense the currents we share with it, and to reconsider where the boundary between nature and ourselves begins.
Contact: jun@crossing-collective.com
