Lucas Howard
Termination Dust
20 September – 5 October 2025

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We are pleased to present Termination Dust, Lucas Howard’s first solo exhibition with Nasha gallery.

 What is Lucas painting? Lucas has just painted over another painting, and I guess now it’s another painting; yet, inevitably the same painting as before, just further along in its process of being differently the same. Like how today is further from yesterday, again and again, coming then going or both simultaneously; or indeed at times shrouded in some unconvincing ideological disguise to try to force it to appear to stay the same. 

It is common to think of painting and interpreting pictures as being about some “thing”. But if the process of painting and indeed interpretation moves on, again and again without end it descends into mystery. Luckily, at the very least, there is a modest consistency in the absurd instance of being mystified again and again; And one can be forgiven, or indeed admired, for really not knowing what it is that you are either painting or interpreting; like when I ask Lucas what he is painting and he replies, 

“I don’t know… disassembling… unfolding painting…” 

Though apparently only the gods know what’s what, people still make it a past time to mortally fight over what’s what. But it looks to me like Lucas is doing something else. As I’ve watched Lucas sit quietly in the night, like some ancient scribe scratching away his hieroglyphic like marks from the dictates of some unseen gravitation-like authority, he is not arguing, there is no position. Rather Lucas is, as far as one can see, simply painting about something to do with translating perception –– growing paintings as naturally as a tree grows leaves in response to its own visions of light. And in some way, he is, like any earnest spectator, at some place along the long morphing-procession of vision itself.



– Text by Nick Collerson, 2025.