In the entryway of anonymous gallery, a wall is activated by a single artwork of an emerging artist or art collective. This presentation will run alongside the current exhibition schedule at the gallery, and will remain visible for one month.

This presentation aptly called first impression, will engage our audience and the general public with a single work on view. first impression, aims to share knowledge and insight of carefully considered artists outside of our gallery roster, while also focusing on a need for diverse representation of artists.

Jesse Gouveia is an American artist born in Seattle, Washington, currently living and working in New York City. His work consists of still photographic images and objects, often displaying visuals and semiotic representations of quiet. Solitary subjects in their private environments and those environments themselves, vacant and left without witness, populate his work. Gouveia interprets his own memories and constructs momentary documents of his subjects in states of absence and introspection.