Elliott Templeton Fine Arts is delighted to announce James Cabaniuk's exhibition, Think of it as a whole opening Saturday, March 8, from 6-8pm. This is the artist's first exhibition in New York.

Cabaniuk’s paintings employ abstraction to embed ideas and images “hidden in plain sight” as visual double entendre, specifically as gestures to the experiences of queer people. Within the artist’s compositions of thickly layered and expressively applied oil paint, Cabaniuk inserts interpretive figurative elements—although originating as the artist’s in-group communication to other queer people, Cabaniuk’s images can be read freely by the viewer. Their use of opacity is intended to mimic cultural constructions such as Polari, through which homosexuals and social deviants adopted a language that could be heard by all but only understood by them.