Adrian Ocone’s paintings unfold through an interplay of impulse and materiality where chaos, gravity, and entropy act as both subject and collaborator in the studio. Working non-linearly across multiple canvases, Ocone pushes to forge compositions whose internal logics teeter between creation and disintegration. His practice probes the unstable intersections of speculative architecture, digital networks, and natural environments. In some works, a matrix-born meadowland dissolves into interwoven land-and-sky silhouettes. In others, reflective glass structures loom amid organic overgrowth. Balancing rigorous inquiry with apparent spontaneity, Ocone’s paintings invite viewers into charged spaces where pictorial structures emerge and implode under the weight of their own making.

Adrian Ocone (b. 2000, Ojai, CA) studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design and earned his BFA in 2023. His work has been exhibited at OCHI in Ketchum, ID; Toby78 in Queens, NY; Glue Projects in San Francisco, CA; and Ladybug and Apt 13 in Providence, RI. Ocone lives and works in Queens, NY.