Dima Alekseyev

Pathway 

February 5–February 28, 2026

559 West 23rd Street, New York

NEW YORK, February 5, 2026 — Crossing Art is pleased to announce Pathway, an exhibition of new works by Dima Alekseyev. This marks the artist’s first solo presentation with Crossing Art, debuting a series of large-scale abstractions that signal a decisive departure from his previous figurative explorations. The exhibition includes eleven large scale mixed media works and several hand-painted limited edition prints.

In Pathway, Alekseyev transitions from the psychological portraiture of his Anonymous Faces and Boulders series toward a rigorous, non-objective formalism. While maintaining the monumental scale characteristic of his earlier public installations, these new works internalize that grandeur, inviting a more intimate, tactile engagement.

 The exhibition finds its conceptual anchor in the Daoist principle of wu wei—or "effortless action." Alekseyev’s process is one of controlled surrender; he rejects the totalizing ego of the creator in favor of a dialogue with the medium. By integrating industrial materials—polycarbonate cement, aluminum, acrylic latex caulk, and plastic mesh—with traditional pigments, he produces "material-forward" surfaces that function as topographical records of their own making. Pathway 2and Pathway 3 on the Eastern wall of the gallery are meditative landscapes, inviting the viewer to into a journey into the unexpected.

Alekseyev’s use of construction-grade mediums bridges the gap between the industrial and the organic, transforming the grit of the built environment into a site of spiritual inquiry. The resulting canvases possess a sculptural density, where the interplay of texture and light suggests a world in a constant state of becoming. Pathway 4 (window), is the artist’s rare exploration of human form.

The exhibition also features select works from Anonymous Faces and Boulders, providing a critical lineage for Alekseyev’s shift toward the "non-object." Seen together, the collection traces an artist’s journey from the observation of the human form to the realization of the fundamental forces that govern it.