Uncool GalleryUncool Gallery
Every open call season,
a solo show
and nine featured artists
/ summer solo exhibition slot has been awarded to:
Alex Ehmer, with Giulia Bianchi and Alberto Motta as alternates.
/ special thanks to:
Patrick Webb
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New Call
is now open for applications.
/presented artist: Alex Ehmer
Slow Burn centers on Candles, an ongoing body of work in which beeswax becomes both surface and subject. Impermanent, tactile, and responsive to heat, wax carries the possibility of preservation and disappearance at once. Through acts of melting, layering, accumulation, and erosion, the work approaches memory as something material, unstable, and continually transformed.
The project’s ritualistic dimension emerges through repetition, touch, and the devotional associations of the candle itself. Within this edition of the Uncool Gallery Solo Show, Slow Burn also enters into dialogue with South American artistic practices that have long engaged ritual, embodied knowledge, organic materials, and processes of transformation as forms of memory, resistance, and world-making.
It was a pleasure exhibiting my work with Uncool Gallery; it was an excellent platform to present and contextualize my research into a physical exhibition. The gallery encouraged meaningful dialogue between artistic practice and technical representation, while positively promoting the intent and identity of the work. The team at Uncool Artist and collaborator Lista Studios created a welcoming, professional, and thoughtfully supportive environment that supported both the installation and the artist in their development efforts. The experience fostered valuable conversations around the body of work and encouraged direction in its further conception. I am grateful for the opportunity to share this work with such a diverse and attentive audience. I greatly appreciated the dedication to care and quality throughout the entire gallery showing process.
Campbell Brod — selected artist for the Spring 2026 solo show.
We received 87 thoughtful, compelling proposals. Thank you to all artists who applied.
Scroll down to know all the artists in this cohort.
Every Thing Raises a Horse to Its Mouth as I Do, 2026, acrylic and vellum on canvas, 20 x 20 x 3/4
Burn the Trespassers at 1307 Degrees Fahrenheit II, 2026, acrylic on wood panel, 24 x 18 x 1.5in
Simulacrum, 2026, acrylic on wood panel, 9 x 12 x 1
Despite it All (Canary Resuscitator no. 1), 2026, acrylic and colored pencil on wood panel, 16 x 20 x 1.5
Starfruit Snake, 2026, oil, dry pastel and oil stick on linen, 182 x 233 cm
Cerrado, 2025, oil and dry pastel on linen, 47 x 34 cm
Sorte, 2022, oil and dry pastel on linen, 31 x 47 cm
Under the Sky’s Jealousy, 2025, oil and dry pastel on canvas, 136 x 78 cm
Cabiria, 2023, oil on canvas, 40 x 32 cm
Messengers, 2024, oil on canvas, 140 x 160 cm
Orchid Moray, 2026, oil, dry pastel and oil stick on linen, 185 x 124 cm
Forest Dream, 2025, oil and dry pastel on linen, 98 x 129 cm
Araticum, 2026, oil and dry pastel on canvas, 180 x 99 cm
Stepping Out For Air, 2025, archival pigment print on Hahnemühle paper, 22 x 17 inches 25 ¼ x 20 ¼ inches, framed, edition of 15
No Stranger, 2026, archival pigment print on Hahnemühle paper, 22 × 17 in 25 ¼ x 20 ¼ inches, framed, edition of 15
Unseen, 2026, archival pigment print on Hahnemühle paper, 13 × 19 in 16 ¼ x 22 ½ inches, framed, edition of 15
Grove Street, 2026, archival pigment print on Hahnemühle paper, lace fabric, linen fabric, and thread, 11 x 17 in 14 ¼ x 20 ½ inches, framed, edition of 15
Bed of Stone, 2026, archival pigment print on Hahnemühle paper, lace fabric, and thread, 11 × 17 in 14 ¼ x 20 ¼ inches, framed, edition of 15
A First Full of Petals 1, 2026, archival pigment print on Hahnemühle paper, lace fabric, and thread, 8 1/2 × 12 3/4 in 13 ⅛ x 17 ⅛ inches, framed, edition of 15
A thousand shapes and shades, 2026, archival pigment print on Hahnemühle paper, lace fabric, and thread, 17 × 11 in 20 ½ x 14 ¼ inches, framed, edition of 15
Trying Times, 2026, archival pigment print on Hahnemühle paper, lace fabric, and thread, 12 3/4 × 8 1/2 in, unframed, edition of 15
Past All Dreaming, 2026, archival pigment print on Hahnemühle paper, lace fabric, and thread, 12 3/4 × 8 1/2 in 19 x 15 ½ inches, framed, edition of 15
Elizabeth, 2026, pigment ink on cotton fabric, thread, 5 x 5 x 2 inches
Go Where I Would I Cannot, 2026, pigment ink on cotton fabric, thread, 5 x 5 x 2 inches
Meet Me Underwater, 2026, pigment ink on cotton fabric, thread 5 x 5 x 2 inches
Landscape Moods 1, 2026, oil on canvas, 19.6 x 15.7 inches
Landscape Moods 2, 2026, oil on canvas, 51.2× 39.4 inches
Landscape Moods 3, 2026, oil on canvas, 23.6 x 27.6 inches
Landscape Moods 4, 2026, oil on canvas, 51.2× 39.4 inches
Landscape Moods 5, 2026, oil on canvas, 51.2× 39.4 inches
Strawberry Field, 2024, ink on paper, 14in x 11in
Steps Through a Neon Dance, 2025, ink on paper, 12in x 9in
Kaleidoscope Eyes, 2025, ink on paper, 14in x 11in
Tasseography, 2024, ink on paper, 14in x 11in
Soft Bloom, Sharp Drift, 2025, ink and acrylic on paper, 12in x 9in
Silver Tinsel, 2025, ink and acrylic on paper, 12in x 9in
The News Today, 2025, acrylic on chipboard, 12in x 18in
Emerald City, 2025, acrylic on chipboard, 12in x 9in
Metaphysical Battle Across Space and Time, 2024, acrylic on paper, 12in x 18in
Banana Split, 2025, acrylic on chipboard, 12in x 18in
Midnight Hum, 2025, acrylic on chipboard, 12in x 18in
Two Rooms, One Dream, 2025, acrylic on chipboard, 12in x 18in
Whispers Through a Dotted Sky, 2025, acrylic on paper, 12in x 21in
Portal, 2026, 19th century carved wood, ceramics, 28 × 24 × 7 in
Column from the Remnants series, 2026 19th century carved wood, ceramics, 24 × 8 × 4 in
Oculus, 2026, painted and printed wood, ceramics, 28 × 14 × 2 in
Crown, 2026, 19th century carved wood, ceramics, 31.5 × 14 × 4 in
Shell from the Folds Series, 2026, Ceramics, 31.5 × 14 × 4 in
Fold, 2026, Ceramics, 8 × 5 × 4 in
Guardians from the Finials Series, 2025, Ceramics, 24 × 7 × 14 in, 20 × 7 × 16 in
Finial from the Finials Series, 2025, Glazed ceramic, 50 × 20 × 20 in
Flyer from the Finials Series, 2025, Glazed ceramic, 15 × 5 × 5 in
garden, 2025, oil on canvas, 16 x 12 in
Palm tree, 2025, oil on canvas board, 10.25 x 7 in
Tokyo Flash, 2025, oil on canvas board, 5 x 7 in
Flower Fortune-Telling, 2025, oil on canvas board, 6 x 8 in
You came all the way here after all, piece 5, 2025, oil on paper & plywood, 13.5 x 15 x 16 in
TiltI 2026, oil and beeswax on canvas panel, 35 x 40 cm
Pássaros, 2025, oil and beeswax on canvas Panel, 35 x 40 cm
Montanha III, 2025, oil and beeswax on canvas panel, 35 x 40cm
Land, Untitled, 5, 2024, Photograph, cotton, woven on a jacquard loom, 60″ x 45″
I Put a Screen Between Us to Face Loss Less Profoundly, 2, 2022, Hand-pulled silkscreen pigment monoprint on cotton, approx. 80″ x 80″ 80″ x 80″ x 1″
I Put A Screen Between Us to Face Loss Less Profoundly, 4, 2022, Hand-pulled silkscreen pigment monoprint on linen, 39″ x 34″ x 1.5″
Rushed Marks, Fleeting, 2023, Inked household sponge and tools, woven on a jacquard loom, approx. 60″ x 80″ approx. 57″ x 77″ x 1.5″
A Flower for a Martyr and a Scroll, set 3, 2024, Porcelain, underglaze, satin glaze, approx. 2″ x 1.6″ x 1″ each, set of 3 pieces