Pauly Gleason
Contemporary Street Art
2015–2026 / Selected works
Artist statement
Pauly Gleason is an American artist residing in Berlin whose work explores the thresholds between the seen and the unseen. Working primarily in oil paint, Gleason creates abstract motifs defined by bright colors and bold, energetic strokes. Each canvas becomes a portal — an opening into other realms, parallel spaces, or realities that hover just beyond the familiar.
Gleason's large-format paintings invite viewers to stand before them and experience the work on a bodily scale. The compositions resist fixed interpretation, offering instead a shifting terrain of forms and color fields. Is it an island? A landscape? An entity not yet discovered? The answer is left intentionally open.
Rooted in curiosity and the desire to expand perception, Gleason's paintings function as gateways — moments where color and gesture converge to reveal the possibility of something more.
Group exhibition with Yvonne Andreini, Nikita Diakur, Frank Diersch, Paul Gleason, Peter Gregorio, Pätzug Hertweck, HUMATIC, Frank Künstler, Izzy Liberti, Alina Mann, Tina Oelker, Kata Unger and Susanne Wurlitzer.
Projection work shown with Phil Evans. Group exhibition at Joachimsthaler Str. 12, 10719 West-Berlin, curated by Alina Mann.
Available for exhibitions, commissions, murals and collaborations.