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Brushstrokes at Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, May 14 – June 20, 2026
Sikkema Malloy Jenkins is pleased to present Brushstrokes, a solo exhibition by Vik Muniz, on view from May 14 through June 20, 2026. A public reception with the artist will be held on Thursday, May 14 from 6–8pm.
Vik Muniz is globally renowned for his unique series recreating popular and art historical imagery, composed from unorthodox source materials—chocolate, sugar, scraps of paper, and junk, among a variety of unexpected media. His practice engages the act of looking as a space of physical and symbolic experience, where the presumption of an artwork’s objective nature can be thrillingly destabilized. In Brushstrokes, Muniz presents a vibrant homage to the groundbreaking pictorial language of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters. The images in this series were created from distinct strokes of paint that are photographed, cut out, and arranged into compositions after artists such as Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Joaquín Sorolla, and Vincent van Gogh. Their work offered a new way of seeing the world, realized through a sensorial expression of color, medium, and light. Drawing upon this history, Muniz embraces the ambiguities of material (re)creation as a source of visual experimentation and discovery.