Love Letters — Kyle Talbott

Love Letters is a solo exhibition of new work by Brooklyn-based artist Kyle Talbott, presented at Long View Gallery. The exhibition marks Talbott’s return to large-scale painting and brings together immersive mixed-media paintings with more intimate drawings and studies on paper. Across the works, he explores mark-making, color, memory, devotion, and human connection through a combination of gestural energy and meditative structure.

Raised outside Washington, D.C., Talbott developed an early visual language through the city’s punk and hardcore music scene and his practice of graffiti writing. He later studied painting in Philadelphia and Rome with Stanley Whitney, Marina Adams, and Dona Nelson, earning a BFA from Tyler School of Art in 1995. After years of exhibiting and contributing to graffiti, art, and design communities, he stepped away from painting to focus on parenting and community building, including helping establish a Waldorf school in Brooklyn with his wife. His return to painting draws on those experiences and approaches abstraction as an emotional and physical record of time, memory, and lived connection.

The exhibition’s works combine ink, acrylic, oil, aerosol, watercolor, gouache, and pencil. Large-scale compositions layer color and movement like maps, balancing the immediacy of graffiti with the material sensitivity of formal painting. Smaller works on paper provide a closer view of Talbott’s process and the intimacy of the artist’s hand.

When: June 5–August 31, 2026

Opening Reception: June 5, 2026, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM

Schedule: The exhibition is open by appointment.

Tickets: Price not available

Artist: Kyle Talbott

Venue: Long View Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Works: Immersive mixed-media paintings, drawings, and studies on paper

Materials: Ink, acrylic, oil, aerosol, watercolor, gouache, and pencil

Note: The exhibition’s Instagram accounts are @kyletalbott and @longviewgallery.