LAGUNA BEACH, CALIF.- GW Contemporary is presenting Lucent Ground: Contemporary Perspectives on Abstraction, the gallery’s inaugural exhibition, on view from July 20 through September 7, 2025. Curated by gallery founder Genevieve Williams, the exhibition brings together eleven international artists whose practices engage materiality and perception in deeply considered, often unexpected ways.

Lucent Ground explores surface, form, and visual experience - foregrounding artists whose works reward close looking. Subtle shifts in material and structure offer new ways of seeing, revealing a world where surfaces become thresholds, dimensionality is in flux, and structure and spontaneity exist in quiet tension.

Informed by movements such as Light and Space, minimalism, and post-minimal abstraction, the exhibition evokes a heightened sensitivity to light, texture, and the act of perception. Optical phenomena hover and recede; compositions unfold slowly, inviting a slowed way of looking - one attuned to nuance, reflection, and the physical presence of each object.

Featured artists include Larry Bell, Laddie John Dill, Heather Hutchison, Gary Lang, Jan Maarten Voskuil, Jonny Niesche, Mark Whalen, Rosalind Tallmadge, Will Cooke, Line Busch, and Nobuhito Nishigawara. Spanning multiple generations and geographies - including Southern California, New York, Australia, and Europe - their practices share a commitment to exploring abstraction as a space of inquiry, transformation, and poetic material engagement.

Located directly across from the Laguna Art Museum, GW Contemporary presents a curator-led program that fosters dialogue between emerging and established voices from the U.S., Australia, and beyond. Lucent Ground marks the beginning of a cross-cultural platform rooted in creative exchange, perceptual depth, and material exploration.