Goya Contemporary Gallery is pleased to present ARCHITECTURE OF NATURE: Soledad Salamé and Amalie Rothschild, a thoughtfully curated exhibition for the 2026 ADAA Art Show.
Soledad Salamé and Amalie Rothschild are two women artists whose practices employ abstraction to construct, examine, and critique the human impact on the natural world. For both, nature is not a fixed external subject but an active, internal system of order—organic, intuitive, and structurally alive. Their work is also informed by histories of migration and displacement, including the environmental upheavals and climate-driven forces that reshape our relationships to place and belonging.
Salamé’s work bears witness to humanity’s impositions on the natural world, tracing the pressures, disruptions, and residues of intervention within ecological systems. Working across sculpture, time-based media, painting, printmaking, and biodesign, she approaches materials as both witnesses to and agents of ecological transformation. Her practice reveals nature as a dynamic field in which processes of growth, adaptation, and disturbance remain in constant flux.
Rothschild’s practice, by contrast, emerges from a deeply modernist sensibility and a rigorous engagement with the materials and languages of postwar American abstraction. A pioneering Baltimore-based artist, she worked across painting, sculpture, and works on paper over a career spanning six decades. Her work bridges abstraction and figuration, formal geometry and intuitive gesture, developing a distinctive visual language shaped by modular construction, spatial tension, and experimental material processes.
Both artists’ practices are enriched by sustained dialogue and collaboration with scientists, architects, and mathematicians, as well as by a shared interest in systems of organization that echo and reinterpret the structures of the natural world. Yet within these broader frameworks, each artist also creates objects that bear an intimate, deeply personal register, bringing individual experience into conversation with larger material and environmental forces.
Placed in dialogue, Salamé and Rothschild offer an expanded understanding of the architecture of nature—not as landscape, but as an evolving system shaped by the interplay of natural processes, human intervention, material structure, and lived experience. Together, their practices position abstraction as a means of thinking through ecological complexity, material intelligence, and environmental entanglement. Their works illuminate the visible and invisible forces through which the natural world is continually shaped, disrupted, and remade—and through which our own place within it is understood.1
1. Writing: Raehse for Art Dealers Association of America