Mateo Rivas Ellery reviewed in Surface Notes
On White Ground and the slow light of plaster
Writing in Surface Notes, critic Lena Okafor reviews White Ground, Mateo Rivas Ellery's spring exhibition at Arternal Demo. Okafor describes paintings that seem to change with the hour, their cracked plaster and faint hand-drawn grids catching the light differently from morning to evening, and calls the show a quiet argument for looking slowly.
July 2, 2026
