Dream LOGic
July 19 - August 28, 2025
Wienholt Projects is pleased to announce Dream Logic, a group exhibition at the Baxter Lemoyne Estate, featuring works by artists Elisa Rossi, Ari Salka, Ben Quinn, Cassidy Putnam, and JPW3. Opening Saturday, July 19th, from 4 to 8pm, Dream Logic will be on view through August 28th in Elysian Heights.
Stay tuned for more details on a Dream Logic-themed reading event curated by Ari Salka in August.
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Elisa Rossi, Watcher with Nightcap, 2022, Acrylic, pastel on cardboard, 36 x 25 in
Unlike conventional logic, Dream Logic resists chronology, causality, or fixed meaning, instead embracing ambiguity, metaphor, and sudden shifts. Dream Logic centers five artists whose works operate outside of language, prioritizing atmosphere over narrative coherence. Their paintings and drawings remind us of the nonlinear, irrational, and emotionally driven way dreams unfold—full of recurring symbols, colors that fluidly shapeshift, and visual “interruptions” that mimic memory lapses or mental pivots. Figures or objects may seem familiar, yet behave unnaturally or defy physical rules. In their works, you might meet someone, or something, you vaguely recognize from a dream or fantasy—like a face you recall, but can’t quite place whether it belonged to a childhood classmate or an imaginary friend.
JPW3, Snake Head Wanderer, 2021, Oil pastel on panel, 48 x 36 inches, courtesy of Night Gallery
Ben Quinn, Starburst 1, 2025, Watercolor and PVA, UV varnish on canvas, 59 x 74 inches
Elisa Rossi was born and raised in Carpi, Italy and worked in public affairs in Belgrade, Berlin and Brussels before transitioning to a full-time artist. Her compositions fluctuate between figuration and abstraction, incorporating symbolic storytelling and subconscious mark-making to address themes of emotional alchemy, divine feminine guardianship, and cosmic transformation. Her practice is partly informed by the Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique and her psychological research into the writings of Carl Jung and James Hillman, and contains reverberations of Astro-expressionism, transcendentalism, and metaphysical art. Rooted in a deep sense of soul memory and expansive optimism, Rossi’s artworks communicate an unabashed embrace of the evolution of consciousness at a collective level.
Rossi has shown at Wonzimer Gallery LA, Superchief NY, and Van Der Plas Gallery NY, among others. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Ben Quinn (b.1991 Dayton, OH) is an artist living and working in Los Angeles, CA. He earned a BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design and MFA from California College of the Arts in 2016. Notable solo exhibitions include Sebastian Gladstone in Los Angeles, STARS in Hollywood, and Et. Al. in San Francisco. He also collaborated with Acne Studios for the Women's Spring Summer runway collection at Paris Fashion Week in 2021.
JPW3 (b. 1981, Tallahassee, FL) has had solo exhibitions at Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; the Sarasota Museum at Ringling College, Sarasota, FL; MOCA Tucson, Tucson, AZ; Martos Gallery, New York, NY; Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin, Germany; Michael Jon Gallery, Miami, FL; and Kunstverein Heppenheim, Heppenheim, Germany. In 2020, his solo presentation with Night Gallery at Untitled, San Francisco, CA won the eBay Booth Award. JPW3 has been featured in group shows at Deitch, New York, NY; Collaborations, Copenhagen, Denmark; Kranzberg Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO; De La Cruz Collection, Miami, FL; the Pit, Los Angeles, CA; Robert Blumenthal, New York, NY; Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy; and Kavi Gupta Gallery, Berlin, Germany. His work has been acquired by the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; the De La Cruz Collection, Miami, FL; Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL; and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO. He has been featured in publications including The New York Times, Artforum, The Los Angeles Times, and Art-Agenda. JPW3 lives and works in Los Angeles.
Cassidy Putnam is a Los Angeles–based artist. With a background in neuroscience and an interest in affect theory, she is compelled by art’s ability play on the brain’s tendency to jump from affect to ad-hoc rationalization. Her paintings often shift between abstract and recognizable forms, using layers and texture to create mood and atmosphere. She has had solo exhibitions at Carlye Packer Gallery in Los Angeles and F2T Gallery in Milan, and has shown in group exhibitions at Diane Rosenstein Gallery, KULE Gallery in Berlin, and other spaces around the world.
Ari Salka (b. Seattle, WA 1993) is a Los Angeles-based artist whose practice spans painting, drawing, and poetry. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2016) and an MFA in Painting from UCLA (2019). Salka was awarded the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art’s Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship in Norfolk, CT (2015).
Ari Salka’s work has been featured in exhibitions at venues such as Ruscha & Co, BozoMag, Lauren Powell Projects, Maison Lune, Euclid Gallery, MOCA, The Torrance Art Museum, and The Skirball Cultural Center. He has also lectured as a visiting artist at UCLA, Chapman University, and Bennington College.
Salka’s work is in the permanent collections of the John M. Flaxman Library, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA), UCLA Arts Library, and the ROSA KWIR Archive in Mosta, Malta. His artist book is currently available for purchase at MOCA through their website, and he looks forward to an upcoming solo museum exhibition at XELA Art in 2027. His forthcoming poetry book is expected to be published in 2026.