Stanek Gallery Miami Presents:
Choreography of the Unsaid
Scott Farrell | Deborah Fine
May 31 - July 19, 2025
Stanek Gallery Miami is pleased to present Choreography of the Unsaid, a two-person exhibition featuring the emotionally charged abstract paintings of Deborah Fine and the textural, process-based prints of Scott Farrell. Though distinct in approach, both artists investigate transformation—of surface, material, and meaning—through the language of abstraction. Each work in the exhibition emerges from a moment of divergence, where object becomes impression, surface becomes suggestion, and form becomes feeling.
(left): Deborah Fine, Magnetic Fields, 2025, mixed medium, 36 x 36 in. (right): Scott Farrell, Hydrangeas No. 49, 2025, archival print, 22 x 33 in.
Farrell, by contrast, begins with the physical: extreme close-up photographs of boats and industrial surfaces—peeling paint, rusted metal, eroded textures. He carefully selects papers with a deeper tooth to accentuate the tactile quality of these details, allowing the texture to speak as much as the image itself. With a sharp eye and a strong visual memory rooted in real landscapes and places, Farrell is drawn to naturally occurring compositions across large, weathered surfaces—moments of accidental beauty shaped by time and environment. Through digital and print-based processes, he abstracts and recontextualizes these fragments, creating works that blur the line between image and interpretation. His prints speak to entropy, impermanence, and the quiet, continual transformation of the visible world.
Scott Farrell Hydrangeas No 49, 2025. Archival Pigment Ink Print on Epson Legacy Etching, 22 × 33 in.
Fine’s paintings are visceral and intuitive, drawn from a deeply emotional, internal space. Her work resists structure in favor of sensation, using layered mark-making, gestural movement, and bold yet sensitive color to explore memory, presence, and the rawness of lived experience. These compositions are less about what is seen than what is felt—evocations of moments rather than representations of them.
Deborah Fine Wind in the Willows, 2024. Digital drawing on archival paper, 11 × 11 in.
Together, Fine and Farrell chart two divergent pathways into abstraction—one intuitive and expressive, the other observational and reimagined. In Choreography of the Unsaid, their works echo and contrast, offering a space where emotion and materiality, memory and surface, converge and drift apart. These fractured surfaces and shifting compositions invite viewers to reflect on transformation—not only of materials, but of perspective. This exhibition is not about what things are, but what they become when you stop asking.
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Choreography of the Unsaid will be on view at Stanek Gallery Miami from May 31st through July 19th, with an opening reception on May 31st from 6–9 PM.