Central Campus Gorelick Gallery

On view: August 2026 – March 2027

My paintings explore the emotional architecture of ordinary life. Working primarily through portraiture and domestic interiors, I investigate the quiet psychological spaces were memory, identity, and perception intersect. 
Although rooted in observation, my work moves away from literal representation. Figures fragment, rooms become unstable and familiar objects lose their certainty. These shifts are not intended to depict external events but rather the internal experience of remembering, questioning, and emotionally reconstructing the world around us.

Over the past several years, my practice has gradually evolved from expressive color toward an almost exclusively monochromatic palette. By removing color as a descriptive element, I focus attention on structure, atmosphere, gesture, and emotional tension. The resulting paintings invite slower looking, allowing ambiguity, and silence to become active parts of the viewing experience. 

My practice is deeply informed by psychology, philosophy, and the subtle complexity of everyday life. Rather than offering fixed narratives, each painting functions as an open psychological space where viewers are invited to project their own memories, relationships, and emotional histories.

Ultimately, I am interested in painting not simply what we see, but how we experience ourselves within the spaces we inhabit.

-Che Hojas