Pathway:New Works by Dima Alekseeyev

FOR IMEDIATE RELEASE Dima Alekseyev Pathway February 5–February 28, 2026 559 West 23rd Street, New York NEW YORK, February 5, 2026 — Crossing Art is pleased to announce Pathway, an exhibition of new works by Dima Alekseyev. This marks the artist’s first solo presentation with Crossing Art, debuting a series of large-scale abstractions that signal a decisive departure from his previous figurative explorations. The exhibition includes eleven large scale mixed media works and several hand-painted limited edition prints. In Pathway, Alekseyev transitions from the psychological portraiture of his Anonymous Faces and Boulders series toward a rigorous, non-objective formalism. While maintaining the monumental scale characteristic of his earlier public installations, these new works internalize that grandeur, inviting a more intimate, tactile engagement. The exhibition finds its conceptual anchor in the Daoist principle of wu wei—or "effortless action." Alekseyev’s process is one of controlled surrender; he rejects the totalizing ego of the creator in favor of a dialogue with the medium. By integrating industrial materials—polycarbonate cement, aluminum, acrylic latex caulk, and plastic mesh—with traditional pigments, he produces "material-forward" surfaces that function as topographical records of their own making. Pathway 2 and Pathway 3 on the Eastern wall of the gallery are meditative landscapes, inviting the viewer to into a journey into the unexpected. Alekseyev’s use of construction-grade mediums bridges the gap between the industrial and the organic, transforming the grit of the built environment into a site of spiritual inquiry. The resulting canvases possess a sculptural density, where the interplay of texture and light suggests a world in a constant state of becoming. Pathway 4 (window), is the artist’s rare exploration of human form. The exhibition also features select works from Anonymous Faces and Boulders, providing a critical lineage for Alekseyev’s shift toward the "non-object." Seen together, the collection traces an artist’s journey from the observation of the human form to the realization of the fundamental forces that govern it. About the artist Dima Alekseyev (b. 1963, Moscow) lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. His work has been exhibited at the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA); and the Millennium Gate Museum, Atlanta. His public art commissions include Sky Maintenance (2017) in Roswell, Georgia. Crossing Art Crossing Art is an art gallery located in Chelsea, New York. Established in 2014, the gallery represents contemporary artists from the United States, Asia and Europe. Media Contact Anna Gurfinkel Anna.Gurfinkel@crossing-collective.com +1 646 492 9902