Rhapsody in green
Haul Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
March 15–April 13, 2025
“Walking through Brooklyn is a psychedelic video game. Navigating obstacles — overgrown sidewalks, dilapidated buildings, and decades-old leaky subway stations can feel like a boss battle. haul’s 2025 Raised in Brooklyn Artist in Residence, wallace dos santos, brings us into a screen-inspired reality of architectural details and design rendered in bright colors and pattern-rich paintings. Bricks and tiles are regular motifs, inspired by both Brooklyn and Lisbon, and pay homage to the Super Mario Bros. games which feature bricks as a malleable canvas and potentially the source of its entire universe. On the edges of these screens (as paintings) are frames sculpted with undulating patterns, the texture reminiscent of the many over-painted iron fences that surround the Brooklyn buildings wallace grew up in – like barriers in a side-scrolling adventure game.”
Our house
The Plan, Chicago, IL
August 2–September 8, 2024
Curated by wallace dos santos and micah dillman.
Our house is a group exhibition of sculpture, painting, and textile works by a collection of artists with queer and trans lived experience. This show explores the relationship between bodily ornamentation and the curation of one’s home/interior environments.
The titular central installation is a “brick house” created by both wallace and micah.
Read more here.
Soft love
41 Cooper Sq., Manhattan, NY
December 6–10, 2022
Soft love is a thesis solo exhibtion, featuring a collection of ornately-framed paintings documenting the vibrancy of grief.
