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Flat Baroque brings together two practices rooted in abstraction, drawing, and perceptual inquiry, where excess and restraint, intuition and structure, coexist in dynamic tension. The works explore how the mind constructs meaning—through memory, gesture, repetition, and the suspension of disbelief—across both neurological and imaginative terrains.

Drawing from an interest in mysticism, cognition, and the architecture of thought, Deborah J. Morris’s paintings approach abstraction as a portal. Shaped canvases, bold color, and flowing compositions echo neural pathways and synaptic activity, suggesting the brain’s layered processes of emotion and perception. Her work oscillates between the tangible and the unseen, offering abstraction as a meditative space where viewers are invited to navigate their own inner landscapes and encounter the spiritual dimensions of consciousness.

Adam Raymont’s practice similarly inhabits a space between structure and illusion, the interior self and perceived external world, blurring the boundaries between drawing and painting. Working with an economy of means and employing an obsessively crafted line, his images weave intricate webs of marks—at once gestural and methodical. Influenced by the relentless flow of imagery that defines human experience, he builds dense visual fields that sustain ambiguity and invite slow examination.

Together, these practices form a visual language that is both ornate and restrained—baroque in its complexity, yet flat in its insistence on surface, line, and immediacy. Flat Baroque considers abstraction not as escape, but as a means of inquiry: a way to examine how perception is built, how meaning emerges, and how inner and outer worlds continuously inform one another.

Deborah J. Morris lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.  She studied at the Studio School in Spokane, WA and holds an MFA from the Yale School of Art. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Dartmouth College, NH, Mercer Gallery, NY, Brooklyn Museum, NY, Painting Center, NY, Lenore Gray Gallery, RI, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts NY, amongst many others. Her work is included in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, NY, and Trinity College, CT. She has nearly two decades of experience as a Professor of Art. Awards and residencies include faculty research grants and a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA.

Adam Raymont relocated to Helsinki in the Summer of 2025 after living in Berlin for more than a decade. Born in New York and raised in Mexico and Washington D.C., he received a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. He has exhibited work in various group shows and has had solo exhibitions in New York and Dallas, TX. His work is included in the collection of The Houston Museum of Fine Art. He has participated in residencies including the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and 100 West in Corsicana, TX. He received a grant from the Pollock Krasner Foundation in 2024.

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