Love Letters — Kyle Talbott

Long View Gallery presents *Love Letters*, a solo exhibition of new works by Brooklyn-based artist Kyle Talbott. This show marks a significant return to large-scale painting for Talbott, who stepped away from the medium for years to focus on parenting and community building. The exhibition brings together immersive mixed media works and intimate works on paper that explore abstraction as an emotional and physical record of time, memory, and devotion. Talbott’s visual language draws from his early years in Washington, D.C.’s punk and hardcore music scene and his background in graffiti writing, later refined through formal painting study under artists Stanley Whitney, Marina Adams, and Dona Nelson at Tyler School of Art. The pieces merge the immediacy and energy of graffiti with a formal painter’s sensitivity, using ink, acrylic, oil, aerosol, watercolor, gouache, and pencil to create layered maps of color and movement. Alongside the large-scale compositions, the exhibition includes smaller drawings and studies on paper that offer a more intimate glimpse into Talbott’s process.

Name: Love Letters — Kyle Talbott
Venue: Long View Gallery, Washington, D.C.
When: June 5 through August 31, 2026
Opening Reception: June 5, 2026, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Artist: Kyle Talbott (Brooklyn-based; raised outside Washington, D.C.)
Mediums: Ink, acrylic, oil, aerosol, watercolor, gouache, pencil on canvas and paper
Description: A solo exhibition of new works reflecting Talbott’s decades-long relationship to mark-making, color, memory, and human connection. The artist describes his intent: “I wanted to make big, immersive paintings about love. I knew that I had to live it with my family first.”
Includes: Large-scale mixed media paintings and smaller works on paper
Social Media: @kyletalbott @longviewgallery
Access: Open by appointment
Price: Not available
Note: The exhibition represents Talbott’s return to large-scale painting after years away from the medium.