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#NewExhibit

"Miles Regis: Bearing Light"

📍Ethan Cohen Gallery | 251 W 19th Street, #NYC

🗓September 18 - October 4, 2025

🕛Opening Reception tonight, Thursday, September 18, 6 pm - 8 pm

Reposted from @ethancohengallery Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present Miles Regis: Bearing Light, the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.

At a moment when the noise of world events feels at an all-time high, Miles Regis turns to painting as a site of clarity and renewal. Rooted in his Trinidadian heritage and expanded by a global curiosity, Regis channels experience into color, gesture, and symbol. His canvases invite us to release frustration through beauty, arriving at a universal truth: the only thing worth living for is love, and with it, the joy that follows.

Regis’ symbolic language depicts the human form in both fluid and sharply defined ways. Figures are threaded through with signs that suggest unseen pathways, connecting souls and tracing their journeys. In these compositions, Regis advocates unity and a consciousness of love; his paintings become both mirrors and maps, reflecting lived experience while guiding us toward collective possibility.

This exhibition marks a return to painting as the primary medium of Regis’ practice. Known for integrating textiles and collage in past bodies of work, here he focuses on canvas and brush, bringing the immediacy of paint to the forefront. The result is an intensity of presence that underscores both the physical act of making and the emotional resonance of each piece. At the heart of the exhibition is Community - A Collective Love, 2022, a monumental painting that embodies Regis’ vision of shared strength and enduring hope.

Lincoln Center Presents

"SAFE SPACE" by Miles Regis

An Augmented Reality Experience

🗓June 14–October 14, 2025

📍Josie Robertson Plaza

10 Lincoln Center Plaza #NYC

@lincolncenter #SummerForTheCity @milesregis

"Step into the world of Trinidad-born artist Miles Regis, in this visual and auditory experience that transforms Lincoln Center into a hidden canvas bursting with color and light. The second augmented reality commission of the Lincoln Center Immersive series—accessible through web-based technology designed by EyeJack—showcases Regis' signature style in a unique celebration of the city's vibrant cultural backgrounds. Bring your smartphone to Lincoln Center to experience this expressive and joyous work of art, accessible for free." - www.lincolncenter.org/series/summer-for-the-city/andquotsafe-spaceandquot-by-miles-regis-128

🖼✍️🏾reposted from @valenceprojects "In a time of unrest and uncertainty, Miles Regis offers a public sanctuary in the form of a transcendent AR experience at the Lincoln Center.

In our latest feature, we dive into the memories, inspirations, and ancestral echoes that shaped SAFE SPACE—and how Regis is using art as sanctuary through mixed reality, which just opened on June 14th.

Read Josiah David Jones’s interview with Miles now on The Keep Up by Valence Projects→ www.valence.studio/thekeepup/safe-space-miles-regis

Presented by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Now on view through October 14, 2025 Josie Robertson Plaza, NYC

AR Painting & Sound Design: @milesregis

Interactive Installation & Animation: @eyejackapp

  Motivations for creating the art:

As the world faces the global Coronavirus pandemic we are forced to truly understand the true meaning of life in terms of what is most important to us. Our homes, our families good health and love. As we social distance and take necessary safety precautions we must remember that moving forward we should embrace all that life has to offer. Simply put, 'We can’t be afraid to live.'

About the Artist:

Miles Regis (born November 28, 1967), is a Los Angeles-based Trinidadian multimedia artist whose work taps into the emotion and experiences of exotic cultures around the world and presents them in ways that are relevant to today's modernized societies. Regis combines abstraction with figurative work; obscure references with in-your-face writings; symbolic narrative with Trinidadian splashes of color. The artist adds to this drip painting and collage work. His media includes oil, acrylic, charcoal, latex paint and occasional newspaper. He works on canvasses already colored, and on some painted with bold colors; his finished compositions take these as their start. Over the years, the USC graduate has honed a technique that incorporates drip painting and collage work that is both unique and striking. With a style reminiscent of many of history's great master painters, Regis' imagination is saturated with notions, ideas, and images reflective of a world filled with conflicting interests.

His work has been exhibited in solo and group shows nationally. Working in mixed media on both canvas and linen, Regis blends found objects and fabric with acrylic, oil, and spray paints resulting in visually vibrant worlds. His work is characterized by layers of abstract figures and bright hues as he explores themes of storytelling, activism, history, and freedom.

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