Denise Treizman: Hard Yes, Soft Excess
April 18 - June 21, 2025
Known for her dynamic installations and sculptures, Denise Treizman works with found objects, ready-made materials, and textiles to create immersive environments that challenge the boundaries between mass production and craft. Featuring site-specific arrangements of foam mattress toppers, tires, and other discarded materials, juxtaposed with wall hangings, drawings, and woven pieces that share the same vibrant materiality and energetic color palettes, this exhibition invites viewers into a world of material transformation, where industrial and everyday objects are reimagined through intuitive, playful assemblage.
Treizman’s practice is rooted in the act of stockpiling and repurposing, embracing the excess of consumer culture while reinterpreting its discarded remnants. Her installations thrive on fluidity, where objects that may appear rigid and industrial—such as rubber or foam—are softened and woven into compositions that feel both organic and painterly. This intuitive process of accumulation results in works that blur the line between order and chaos, permanence and impermanence. Many of her wall-based works, including her weavings and drawings, echo this aesthetic, incorporating foil, tape, lighting, and painted marks that pulse with spontaneous energy.
Color plays a central role in Treizman’s visual language, with pastel and neon hues creating an atmosphere of joy and curiosity. From balloon weavings to sequined sculptures embedded with unexpected objects like worn sneakers and Mardi Gras beads, her work exudes a sense of improvisation and play. These vibrant compositions recall childhood fascinations with collecting colorful trinkets and later, the thrill of scavenging discarded treasures on the streets of New York, where she lived and worked for almost a decade. This tension—between an attraction to bright, seductive consumer aesthetics and a critique of their fleeting nature—runs throughout her work.
Through a careful balance of improvisation and control, Treizman constructs environments where overlooked materials find new meaning. By merging the rigid with the soft, the industrial with the handmade, her work transforms everyday excess into poetic and tactile experiences. Her work invites audiences to reconsider the potential of discarded objects, revealing how material culture, labor, and reinvention shape our understanding of value and creativity.
Denise Treizman is a Chilean-Israeli artist based in Miami, Florida. She earned her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and has exhibited internationally in prominent institutions and galleries, with shows in the U.S., Chile, and Europe. Through her bold use of color, found objects, and unconventional techniques, Treizman continues to challenge perceptions of value and permanence in contemporary art.