Amos Eno Gallery is pleased to present A Mountain Overlooking a Home by the Lake – The Creation of Time from the State of Duration, a solo exhibition by artist José-Ricardo Presman. Presman was among the founding artists who established Amos Eno Gallery in 1974, making this exhibition both a continuation of a decades-long relationship and a reflection on the evolving concerns of his practice.

In this new body of work, Presman explores the relationship between perception, time, and scale — drawing connections between the intimate spaces of human awareness and the vastness of the cosmos. The exhibition unfolds as a contemplative installation of canvas panels layered with diluted acrylic pigments that reveal themselves slowly, shifting as viewers spend time with the surface.

Presman’s paintings resist immediate readability. Instead, subtle tonal variations and restrained color fields emerge gradually, inviting viewers into an extended act of looking. The works operate less as static images than as perceptual environments — spaces where attention itself becomes part of the experience.

The exhibition’s title references philosophical ideas about time and duration, particularly the notion that reality is in constant flux. Presman approaches each exhibition as an opportunity to begin again, deliberately avoiding stylistic repetition in order to reflect this sense of continual transformation. The resulting works encourage viewers to move beyond habitual ways of seeing and engage the work through sustained attention and imagination.

The exhibition also includes a related video component and a forthcoming live musical performance by composer Damien Olsen Berdichevsky, extending Presman’s investigation of rhythm, perception, and time across multiple sensory registers.

Over five decades after helping to found Amos Eno, Presman’s latest exhibition reflects both the continuity of his philosophical inquiry and its ongoing evolution.

The gallery will celebrate the exhibition with an opening reception on Friday, May 1, from 6 to 8 p.m. Works and installation images will be available to view on Artsy.

About the Artist

José-Ricardo Presman was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and received his MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. He is one of the co-founders of the Amos Eno Gallery in 1974, and has exhibited in numerous solo shows at Amos Eno Gallery in New York and in various group shows throughout the US and Canada. A complete list of exhibitions is available in his CV upon request.

About Amos Eno Gallery

Amos Eno Gallery has been a fixture in the New York art scene since 1974 when it opened in Soho. The nonprofit space  is open Thursdays through Sundays from noon to 6 p.m. and run by a community of professional artists from New York City and across the country, along with a part-time director. ​

The gallery is located at 191 Henry Street between Jefferson and Clinton Streets on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. It’s a 5 minute walk from the F Train’s East Broadway Station and a 10 minute walk from the J Train’s Delancey Street – Essex Street Station.

Amos Eno Gallery’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Amos Eno Gallery is also funded in part thanks to the generosity of the Joseph Roberts Foundation.