Geppy Pisanelli's Hidden Lights

GR Gallery presented Geppy Pisanelli's solo exhibition Hidden Lights from February 14 through March 15, 2025. The paintings joined water, trees, mountains, and other natural forms with shelters, lamps, signals, and isolated figures, using the friction between nature and artifice to consider clarity, uncertainty, social conflict, and the possibility of renewal.

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Instagram: Inside Hidden Lights

TheNakedNYC documented Pisanelli's paintings and their presentation at GR Gallery.

Photo Gallery: Works From Hidden Lights

A surreal blue landscape painting shows a figure in water beneath dense trees and an orange illuminated opening — Hidden Light contrasts a small human figure and artificial illumination with an overwhelming landscape. · Geppy Pisanelli

A violet waterside structure and bare tree surround a small glowing window and lantern — Glimmers for the Drift uses two isolated lights to organize a dark waterside scene. · Geppy Pisanelli

Two figures occupy a tree while one raises a flare that releases red smoke — The Signal and the Blind turns light into both communication and uncertainty. · Geppy Pisanelli

Small wooden rafts drift across blue water reflecting a pink and orange sky — Searching for the Light places fragile human-made forms within an expansive landscape. · Geppy Pisanelli

Artist Geppy Pisanelli sits before a wall installation of branching tree forms — Geppy Pisanelli divides his practice between Naples and New York. · Geppy Pisanelli

What to Know

Nature Met Human Construction

Pisanelli placed minimal buildings, shelters, rafts, lamps, and signals inside water, forests, and mountains. The objects appear necessary but also estranged from the landscapes they occupy.

Light Did Not Guarantee Clarity

Windows, flares, lanterns, and reflected skies draw the eye without resolving the scenes. The exhibition's title treats illumination as something partial, distant, or concealed.

The Paintings Operated as Thresholds

Pisanelli described the works as threshold images. Their recognizable settings open onto questions of abandonment and hope, solitude and connection, rather than settling into straightforward narrative.

Contemporary Conflict Informed the Series

The artist connected the emotional tension of the landscapes to pandemics, migration, war, and climate change. Human figures appear vulnerable within spaces altered by forces larger than themselves.

D. H. Lawrence Supplied a Reference

Pisanelli drew on Lawrence's 1928 writing about destruction, rebuilding, and renewed life. That reference gave the exhibition's darkness an undercurrent of resilience rather than finality.

A Return to GR Gallery

The solo show followed Pisanelli's participation in the gallery's 2023 group exhibition Dreaming Awake. The artist divides his practice between Naples and New York; GR Gallery maintains its exhibition archive and program.