Echoes in the Void Works by four contemporary abstract painter

Group Exhibition featuring artists Rio Rayne, Matt O’Neill, Natasha Mistry, Daniel Strawn, and a photography gallery curated by Mark Sink

May 15, 2026

Opening Reception: Friday, May 15, 6pm - 9pm

About the Exhibition:

Seidel City presents Echoes in the Void: Works by Four Contemporary Abstract Painters, an exhibition led by the rediscovery of Rio Wayne and featuring Matt O’Neill, Natasha Mistry, and Daniel Strawn.

Join us Friday, May 15th for the opening reception from 6 to 9 pm. Regular hours are by appointment only. Appointments may be scheduled through our website or by email.

This exhibition marks the first presentation in Colorado of a significant body of work by Rio Wayne, a Boulder-based artist whose practice spans over 45 years. Emerging from the downtown New York art scene of the 1980s, Wayne was embedded in a community that shaped one of the most influential periods in contemporary art. His work reflects that energy while remaining deeply personal, evolving over decades into a distinctive visual language rooted in color, movement, and symbolic abstraction.

Wayne’s paintings and multimedia works move between past and present, offering a rare glimpse into an artist who has continued to explore and create beyond the conventional spotlight of the art world. His work is both expressive and reflective, carrying the weight of lived experience alongside a constant sense of experimentation.

The exhibition is complemented by three artists whose practices expand the possibilities of abstraction today. Matt O’Neill’s detailed pen and ink compositions reveal intricate systems of form and line. Natasha Mistry’s luminous geometric paintings function as meditative structures informed by natural patterns and the subconscious. Daniel Strawn’s multimedia works explore communication, identity, and perception through layered constructions that move between figuration and abstraction.

Echoes in the Void will also include a dedicated photography presentation curated by artist Mark Sink, a longtime collaborator of Seidel City.

Together, these works create a layered conversation across generations, tracing connections between the experimental energy of the 1980s and contemporary practices today. Echoes in the Void reflects on memory, artistic identity, and the enduring search for meaning within abstraction.

Rio Rayne is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans over four decades, encompassing painting, collage, music, and poetry. Emerging from New York’s downtown art scene of the late 1970s and 1980s, he was an original member of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s band Gray and part of a close creative community that helped define the period . His work reflects that raw, experimental energy, moving fluidly between abstraction and symbolic gesture while maintaining a highly individual visual language. Now based in Boulder, Colorado, Rayne continues to explore and evolve his practice beyond conventional art world trajectories.

Matt O’Neill is an artist based in Denver, Colorado, whose practice has been a significant presence in the region since the 1980s. Known for his structured yet expressive abstract compositions, his work explores geometric form, line, and a restrained, nuanced palette. O’Neill is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Fellowship Grant, and his work is held in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, and the Kirkland Museum.

Natasha Mistry is a British artist of mixed South Asian and Celtic heritage whose practice is a disciplined investigation into the architecture of the subconscious. Based between Boulder and London, and holding a BA in Fine Art from Manchester School of Art, she has developed a 23 year exploration of the Jungian unconscious through luminous geometric paintings that function as meditative, almost architectural spaces. Moving away from saturated chromatic work, she employs meticulous pointillism using oils, mica infused pigments, natural materials, and graphite to translate organic patterns and universal structures into carefully ordered, resonant compositions. Her work bridges mystical traditions and sacred geometry with contemporary technical precision, and has been exhibited internationally, with recent presentations including Imaginearia at BMoCA and exhibitions across the UK, USA, South Korea, and residencies in the Peruvian Amazon and Andalusia.

Daniel Strawn, member of iconic Colorado art family, BFA from university of Denver, Multi media Artist,designer, craftsman and teacher, lives in Lyons, Colorado. This series, titled Wigheads, is a excercise inplastic telepathy, ingaging the tensions of manniquin souls desire to communicate, series of 8 photography and acrylic on panel, 2024