Wade Schaming
Easy Feelings
September 10—October 10, 2026

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 10, 6:00—8:00 PM
Artist Talk: Saturday October 03, 4:00—6:00 PM

Equity Gallery is pleased to present Easy Feelings, a body of new geometric colorfield paintings by Wade Schaming. This is Schaming’s fifth exhibition and first solo with Equity Gallery.

Wade Schaming’s paintings embody a minimalist, process-oriented visual language defined by geometric restraint, stark tonality, and tactile, serial arrangements. Utilizing unprimed surfaces, rhythmic mark-making, and repeated graphic motifs, often derived from custom stamps, the compositions emphasize raw surface materiality while establishing a sense of spatial balance and structure . Conceptually, these two-dimensional works extend Schaming’s broader sculptural ethos of assemblage and personal archiving, interrogating themes of memory, impermanence, and the transformation of the everyday into systematic formal arrangements.

To follow is the artists personal recounting of the origin story behind the Easy Feelings paintings:

“Following a car accident in 1988, my mother slowly lost her mind. It began gradually, like rain—a shift in personality, almost imperceptible at first—until the woman who would sing songs, pack lunches, and blow kisses was quietly supplanted. In her place was someone melancholic, someone rageful; a woman who hoarded. As a child, I struggled to make sense of what had happened. Who was this person now inhabiting her body? Our home, once warm and loving, began to overflow with detritus—plastic cups, old clothes, discarded mail—until these objects she collected consumed our shared spaces.

On weekends, I escaped to Century III Mall. There, studying the building’s maps, I found solace in the bright red YOU ARE HERE markers, the careful precision of each line. They offered the promise of direction—of arrival somewhere else altogether. At a time when my emotions felt overwhelming, when I too feared being supplanted, these maps gave me something steady, something navigable.

Visual art became my language when I had none. My early drawings carried the same meditative control as those maps: meticulous, ordered, deliberate. They mirrored mapmaking in both form and intent, creating structure where none seemed possible. In direct contrast to the entropy of my home, the act of marking paper became a way to impose order on confusion. Within that process, I began to find a voice. In art I found myself.

As my practice has blossomed, I’ve felt less bound by the systems I once relied on. In 2024, I began painting as a new way to commune with myself. Each work begins with a central form and expands outward, accumulating until the canvas is filled. They evoke both the beauty of organic growth - and the unsettling spread of disease. Like my mother, I fill the space until I can’t, and the result can be both overwhelming and beautiful.

In my practice as in my life, I use these mediums to heal. Nothing is permanent. All time is borrowed. All we have is today. – Wade Schaming