"Ricardo Mazal: Pilgrimages" March 22, 2025 - April 26, 2025

Haines proudly presents Pilgrimages, the gallery’s first solo exhibition of new and recent works by Mexican artist Ricardo Mazal. Based between Mexico City, Santa Fe, and New York City, Mazal is well-known for his expansive painting practice that uses the language of abstraction to explore themes of transformation, impermanence, renewal, and return. Pilgrimages brings together paintings from five interrelated bodies of work created over the last five years, inviting viewers into Mazal’s investigations of spiritual sites and cultural traditions across the globe, from the Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague, one of the oldest Jewish burial grounds in the world; to the Zapotec communities in Sierra Norte of Oaxaca, Southern Mexico; and to Tibet and Bhutan in the Himalayas.Throughout Pilgrimages, Mazal revisits forms, colors, and textures of his travels, drawing commonalities between diverse places and rituals. His painterly meditations reveal a longstanding concern with how we experience both the material world and the ineffable, and the profound experiences found in the everyday.