July 15, 2025 – October 15, 2025

Paulson Fontaine Press is happy to present new releases by Derek Fordjour and Greg Rick.

Derek Fordjour makes paintings, sculptures, and installations in which exuberant visual materiality gives rise to portraits and other multilayered compositions. Fordjour’s tableaux are filled with athletes, performers, and others who play key roles in cultural rituals and communal rites of passage. In his paintings, Fordjour methodically constructs the ground of each composition through a collage-based process involving cardboard, newspaper, and other materials and pigments. The varied and textural surfaces that emerge are as complex—and physically engaging—as the dynamic subjects that Fordjour inscribes on top, within, and through them.

Greg Rick makes powerful paintings that delve into archetypal explorations of human nature.  His rhythmic works writhe with movement, blurring lines between history painting and abstraction. Like Guston’s pile-ups, Rick compresses gesture and form to provoke ideas of struggle, confrontation, and transcendence. While mining his personal experiences with the 101st Airborne, he joins a long tradition of artists like Picasso, Goya, and Léger who used paint to mourn the spoils of war.