EXPO Chicago: Navy Pier, Chicago | Booth 316

Navy Pier, Chicago IL
Booth 316

Baert Gallery is pleased to participate in EXPO Chicago with a solo presentation by San Diego-based artist Bryan Ali Sanchez. The presentation highlights a series of six new paintings in which the artist orchestrates a bold interplay of vivid colors, heavy brushstrokes, wide perspectives, and suspended moments to evoke life on a ranch. Weaving together five generations of connection to his family’s land in Querétaro, Mexico, Sanchez cultivates a delicate tension between past and present.

Bryan Ali Sanchez’s paintings address the effects and hardships of belonging to a working class community. He explores moments between stillness and tension. Sanchez achieves a blurred, ephemeral quality in his paintings through a range of paint application and color combinations which emit a sensorial quality. His practice engages in a dialogue between past and present, revealing a fragmented understanding of two reflecting halves of self based on the artist’s family history and his childhood along the U.S-Mexico border.

Bryan Ali Sanchez received his M.F.A in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT in 2023 and his B.F.A from California State University Long Beach, CA in 2019. Recent exhibitions include Recuerdos del Horizonte, Baert Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2025), Siempre Presente /Ever-Present, Albert Projects, Los Angeles, CA (2024); A Breath on Glass, Spurs Galley, Bejin, China (2023); A Signal Urgent But Breaking, Perrotin Gallery, New York City, NY (2023) and OtWra Noche en LA, VETA Galería, Madrid, Spain (2023). Sanchez is the recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshield Foundation Grant (2024 & 2022) and the Richard Welling Scholarship, Yale University, New Haven, CT (2021).