Cletus Wilcox & Dan Charbonnet | HUMORS

TINNEY is proud to present Humors, a two-person exhibition featuring works by Dan Charbonnet and Cletus Wilcox. The exhibition will be on display from September 19 through October 31, 2026. The opening reception will be Saturday, September 19, from 6 to 9 PM.

Dan Charbonnet is a New Orleans-based artist whose interlaced paintings combine elements of fiber arts, collage, and mid-century abstraction. His most recent body of work, The Weight of Confetti, pays homage to his mother, who was a volunteer clown. To this end, he often draws his color palette from the clown paintings of Picasso, Cezanne, and other masters. Charbonnet begins his works by creating a preliminary image on raw canvas. These images vary from abstract, gestural markings, to more figurative drawings, to graphite rubbings created on various surfaces in New Orleans public spaces. The substrate (and the image) are then cut into strips, which Charbonnet paints, embroiders and then weaves into a lattice.

Cletus Wilcox is a multidisciplinary artist based in Louisville, KY. Wilcox approaches abstraction as a vehicle to express and process queer experience. His current focus is on large-scale color field paintings, made by layering layer after layer of oil paint which is suspended in transparent medium and poured in large swathes onto raw canvas. This is a high-risk process which relies as much on knowledge of paint chemistry and color theory as it does on chance. The paintings that result feel at once decadent and restrained, recalling mid-century works by Morris Louis, Helen Frankenthaler and Mark Rothko.

Humors implies a sense of levity, but also flux—nothing ages quicker than a joke, and nothing seems further afield than the once-scientific idea that there are four “humors” (corresponding with bodily fluids) that control our behavior. Both artists exemplify playful-yet-refined approaches to abstraction. They draw on American mid-century painting, yet are able to distance themselves from the cult-elevation of gestural painters, opting for a formalism that embraces constraint and chance without capitulating to the ego.

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