“I stand in one place. My body is the center; my arm sweeps the radius. Repeated over time, the gesture becomes a ritual,” he continues. The movement recalls early ways humans marked space, while also returning Marmol to himself. From this simple action, a quiet sense of expansion unfolds.

Recurrence reveals the creative and philosophical loops that have shaped Marmol’s practice for decades. His landscape paintings present atmospheric planes of color distilled from the environment’s mercurial, contemplative nature. The granular drag of cold wax recalls the texture of sand. Scraped and incised passages evoke the marks left by wind, erosion, or human passage. In contrast, Marmol’s circle paintings are pulled from the body itself, gathering energy into tranquil, insistent motion. The landscape’s dynamic light and the circle’s relentless activity dance as parallel expressions of recurrence. In both series, translucent layers of oil and wax become a mnemonic surface bearing traces of intention and accident.

This exhibition also marks a personal return: Marmol’s renewed artistic dialogue with friend Chuck Arnoldi, which deepened during the pandemic through their collaborative NADA Miami Lone Stars exhibition in 2020. Marmol’s circle participates in a lineage as old as mark-making itself. From the oculi of ancient Roman temples and the Zen practice of Ensō to the modern and contemporary abstractions of Richard Serra’s Torqued Ellipses and Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Nets, Recurrence reaches toward the sublime without relinquishing the unsteady grace of the human hand. Marmol pursues clarity, knowing the question is never answered. Here, the myth of Sisyphus becomes less a grand metaphor than a personal rhythm: the return to the studio, the familiar resistance of materials, the near-realization that inevitably gives way to the next attempt. The boulder rolls back down the mountain, back into the practice itself. And as Camus reminds us, one must imagine Sisyphus happy: meaning is derived from the willingness to begin again. For Marmol, the repetition of Recurrence becomes its own form of understanding.

The public is invited to attend the opening reception to meet the artist.

Opening Reception
Thursday, February 5th, 2026 | 6-8 pm
Chuck Arnoldi’s Venice Studio
721 Hampton Dr, Venice, CA 90291