Measured Forms: An Invitational Show

(SANTA MONICA, CA) Nüart Gallery is pleased to present Measured Forms, an invitational exhibition bringing together four artists whose practices investigate the relationship between perception, structure, and material through construction, repetition, and sustained formal inquiry. Featuring new works by Noosha Goolab, Howard Hersh, Naoto Miyazaki, and Andrea Myers, the exhibition will be on view from July 18 – August 8, 2026, with an opening reception on Saturday, July 18, 2026, from 3:00–5:00 PM.

Noosha Goolab + Howard Hersh + Naoto Miyazaki + Andrea Myers: Measured Forms
Measured Forms brings together four artists working across painting, drawing, sculpture, and textile, each developing highly disciplined visual languages in which repeated gestures gradually accumulate into coherent structures. Through distinct approaches to material and process, the exhibition explores how order, rhythm, and repetition can shape the experience of form.

Howard Hersh’s paintings investigate the perceptual possibilities of geometry, color, and optical rhythm. Through precisely organized systems of stripes, gradients, and geometric interventions, he creates compositions that shift as they are viewed, allowing spatial relationships to remain active rather than fixed. His paintings balance mathematical rigor with visual instability, demonstrating how subtle changes in proportion, curvature, and color can transform the viewer’s experience of space.

Noosha Goolab approaches drawing as an extended process of layering, erasure, transfer, and revision. Working with paper, charcoal, pastel, and folded vellum, she builds surfaces in which repeated marks gradually produce delicate fields of tone and texture. The work records both intentional decisions and the physical behavior of the materials themselves, allowing traces of pressure, light, and time to remain visible. Her restrained visual language reveals increasingly complex relationships within seemingly quiet compositions.

Naoto Miyazaki’s sculptures reflect nearly two decades of investigation into abstract form. Cast in hard plaster, his works evolve through an ongoing search for equilibrium between straight and curved lines, openness and solidity, precision and ambiguity. Although each sculpture is carefully resolved, none presents a singular viewpoint; instead, every angle introduces new relationships among mass, void, and contour. The result is sculpture that unfolds through movement, inviting viewers to discover continuously changing forms in the round.

Andrea Myers transforms reclaimed textiles into richly constructed compositions that merge sewing, collage, and abstraction. Layers of donated fabrics, visible stitching, and accumulated fragments create expansive surfaces in which color, pattern, and texture function as structural elements rather than decoration. By reassembling materials that once served everyday purposes, Myers constructs works that preserve the physical histories of their components while generating compelling new visual relationships.

Together, the works in Measured Forms reveal how sustained engagement with material, repetition, and process can produce visual systems that are both rigorously constructed and deeply responsive to perception.

Opening Reception
Saturday, July 18, 2026 | 3:00–5:00 PM

Nüart Gallery
Bergamot Station Arts Center
2525 Michigan Avenue, Suite B4
Santa Monica, CA 90404

Gallery Hours
Tuesday–Saturday | 11:00 AM–5:00 PM

Media Contact
Diana Cignoni
(424) 900-3888