Flourish & Flow in The Hamptons, New York
28 June - 4th July 2025
Unlimited Earth Care,
2249 Scuttle Hole Road,
Bridgehampton,
New York, USA
LUAP opens a solo presentation in Bridgehampton, New York. Curated by landscape designer Frederico Azevedo, Flourish and Flow shows seven new paintings. The works set the Pink Bear within quiet natural scenes and track mood, memory and place.
Rowing Toward a Place I Forgot - 2025 - Oil & Acrylic on Canvas - 183cm x 124cm
The presentation moves between recognition and uncertainty. Images appear direct, yet surfaces carry traces of memory that shift the reading from description to recollection. Pattern sits beside foliage. Soft chromatic greens meet the steady pink of the figure. The paintings hold the viewer in a measured tempo where stillness and movement coexist.
A focal work, Rowing Toward a Place I Forgot, presents the Pink Bear crossing a still lake. Patterned leaves and water enclose the figure and set a calm horizon. The scene draws on the artist’s childhood time at a boating lake, and the composition sustains a balance between safety and solitude. The image reads as both action and pause, a passage that stretches time and invites close looking.
“The oars creak. The water barely moves. Time stretches out,” LUAP writes of the work. “It is peaceful, but uncertain. Something about the stillness makes everything feel louder.”
Other canvases place the figure beside a stream or at the edge of water, seen through a veil of leaves. Each painting fixes on a single action and lets small adjustments of posture and light carry its emotional charge.
The exhibition also presents two ice cream paintings drawn from LUAP’s childhood in Cleethorpes. Big Whippy (2025, oil and acrylic on canvas, 124 × 183 cm) scales a soft-serve cone to monumental size, a clear emblem of season and place. Dig My Sandy Grave Whilst I Eat This Melting Ice Cream (2024, oil and acrylic on canvas, 183 × 124 cm) holds humour and unease in the same frame, a summer image that tilts toward memento. Shown on the East End, these works set Cleethorpes against Bridgehampton and show how places can be worlds apart yet closely familiar. Seaside cues, bright light and the ritual of a cone link distant coasts and fold personal past into the present site.
Big Whippy - 2025 - Oil & Acrylic on Canvas - 124cm x 183cm
Throughout the exhibition, pattern links memory and landscape. Grounds that first read as foliage also suggest wallpaper and interior motifs. These textures introduce a domestic note into outdoor scenes and soften the line between the real and the imagined. The Pink Bear, often a central subject in LUAP’s wider practice, recedes at points to act as a quiet constant, a presence that steadies the frame and holds space for reflection.
Azevedo’s curatorial lens brings a landscape designer’s attention to rhythm and path. Plant forms, waterlines and sight lines through the room guide how the works are read. Materials support this clarity. Oil and acrylic keep edges legible and surfaces responsive to light. Greens and earth tones set the key, while the figure’s pink holds as a fixed point against shifting grounds. The group operates as a precise sequence of images that reward slow attention.
Flourish and Flow extends LUAP’s established language and deepens its emotional range. The exhibition proposes the Pink Bear as a patient marker of mood, and the landscape as a record of thought.
