Materia: Memoria

To make an appointment, please visit: tinyurl.com/3s4tz2ta Galerie Sardine is proud to present Justin Bradshaw: Materia: Memoria, the artist’s New York debut, featuring recent works by the UK-born painter in dialogue with sculptural ceramic vessels by Colombian artist María Robledo. Originally from East London and long based outside Rome, Justin Bradshaw paints vivid depictions of private interiors. His recurring motif—the unmade bed—summons the figure by portraying its absence, through the imprints and traces that remain on each surface. His works carry both the weight of the body and the transience of its passing, signs of a life just beyond the frame. Deeply informed by Renaissance treatises yet resolutely contemporary, Bradshaw’s work reanimates painting’s ancient intimacy with earth and figure. Within these domestic vignettes, the bed, the chair, become metaphoric thresholds—sites where presence and absence, rest and mortality quietly coexist. As part of Materia: Memoria, Galerie Sardine will also present a body of new works by Maria Robledo. Her large-scale stoneware vessels inhabit a space at once archaic and unmistakably contemporary. Their voluptuous silhouettes echo the indigenous pottery traditions of her native Colombia, while their dusty white glazes—almost spectral in appearance—draw upon the refined restraint of Japanese ceramics. Each work appears as though unearthed from a mythical civilization, carrying within an interior archaeology of place and memory. Materia: Memoria marks a significant moment for Galerie Sardine as it brings its itinerant program to New York City. The exhibition situates Bradshaw's deeply emotive paintings—heavy with material presence and shaped by a profoundly personal engagement with art history—in dialogue with Robledo's monumentally expressive ceramic forms.