Atrium Series: Evan Venegas, Day Map 61317, 2017

Art at Americas Society’s Atrium Series is pleased to present Evan Venegas’s Day Map 61317, 2017.

Evan Venegas (b. 1975), is a New York based artist who began painting as a way to improvise and organize his thoughts. On a technical basis, he often finds himself fine-tuning and exploring different kinds of shapes, colors, and scale, all to create this specific experience for the viewer. He paints intuitively with the goal of creating a state of mind that inspires a change in perception and focused consciousness within viewers.

Inspired by the birth of his daughter in 2012, Venegas began the Day Map series, using watercolors, which are a delicate medium, a basic shape, and subtle use of color to convey fragility. The delicate circles overlapping one another act as the representation of balancing elements in Venegas’s life, as the process was initiated by his daily organizing, setting values to life tasks, events, situations, and other "emotional data.” The artist translates these values into different colors and sizes of circles, building a unified piece. Venegas works to show a complete body, simultaneously showing the individual parts that create it.

The Atrium Series presents artwork from artists across the Americas in our David Rockefeller Atrium. This series highlights important collections from the region in our lobby, allowing the exhibited artworks to reach the diverse audience of Americas Society’s program, including Latin American cultural and political leaders.

Day Map 61317 is on view from September 3, 2025 through April 18, 2026.