Reuben Paterson is included in a group exhibition INCARNA at High Noon Gallery, New York from 2 July - 9 August. The exhibition includes Judy Giera, KC Crow Maddux and Benedict Scheuer and is co-curated by Clare Gemima and Jared Linge.
Centering on embodiment as an endlessly fluid theme, each artist gives shape to what stirs beneath the surface: pain and joy, social inscription, inherited story, ecstatic state, and mystical ancestral narratives. Their practices open thresholds where sensation, belief, and memory take material shape—whether through painting, textile, or sculpture. Tracing the residue of touch, the weight of transition, and the shimmer of conviction, each work distills an emotional terrain into a radiant, intimate incarnation.
Reuben Paterson invokes the taniwha (a powerful, often supernatural being in Māori cosmology) of his Te Arawa ancestors using glitter, Cook Island black pearls, Japanese freshwater pearls, acrylic paint, and mixed media in Hotu-Puku, The Devourer of Travelers (Constellation Draco). Flashes of ‘poppers-yellow’ against deep blacks evoke the palette of queer nightlife, while the work iridescently reminisces spiritual and genealogical histories. Paterson conjures a presence that is both cosmological and carnivorous—a devourer, a guardian, and a boundless constellation tethered to lands and legacies.
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