Seth Cameron
The Stranger

January 14 – February 21, 2026
48 Ludlow Street, NYC
Ground Level

Entrance is pleased to present two solo exhibitions by Seth Cameron, his first New York exhibitions in six years. The Stranger is a suite of sumi-ink paintings titled The Stranger (Chrysanthemums) on the ground level of the gallery. A Great Man on the lower level includes a new video essay titled A Great Man. Together they extend his ongoing work on how lived experience is shaped and fractured by what it inherits.

Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can’t be sure.
— Albert Camus, The Stranger

Albert Camus describes the funeral scene in The Stranger with plain, unadorned detail: a son at his mother’s coffin, the hard light, the slow procession of mourners, the chrysanthemums beside her body. That flower carries a long association with mourning across East Asia and Europe, a funerary history that extends into both literature and painting. It surfaces again in the early work of Piet Mondrian, where its Romantic and memorial associations haunt the canonical story of abstraction’s clean ascent. Cameron takes up the chrysanthemum once more by rendering it only as shadow. Multiplying across the linen, the shadows are shaped by shifting distances, angles, colors, and intensities of light, giving the images a fleeting, spectral quality. The sumi-ink tradition brings with it an attentiveness to impermanence, articulated through the idea of mono no aware, the awareness of beauty in impermanence. In this light, the painted surface behaves less as a metaphorical mirror or window than as a veil — a threshold between psychic realms. The series turns on the space between perception and understanding, holding open the gap between seeing and knowing.

Seth Cameron
A Great Man

January 14 – February 21, 2026
48 Ludlow Street, NYC
Lower Level

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
— Thomas Carlyle

Cameron’s latest video essay turns to the figures whose lives have shaped the cultural stories we inherit—Galileo Galilei, Piet Mondrian, Michael Jackson, Christopher Columbus, Ayn Rand, Kurt Cobain, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Albert Camus, Kenny Rogers, among others. Their presence enters the work not through full accounts but through fragments, the kinds of inherited traces that accumulate over time and shade into one another. Set against the sparse facts of Cameron’s own paternal histories—his father’s rapid loss of vision and the partial knowledge surrounding his adoption—these fragments gather into a shifting field in which only the shadow of an abstract father can be felt but not found.

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