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Spinello Projects presents Wild Nature, the debut solo booth presentation by Cuban-born artist Marlon Portales at The Armory Show. Following his debut solo exhibition with the gallery, The Last Man, Portales expands his exploration of identity, desire, and transformation into new terrain, where landscape becomes both mirror and metaphor for the human condition.

Over the past two years, Portales’ practice has evolved into a more intuitive, spiritual, and liberated form of painting. In Wild Nature, this impulse takes shape as a symbolic landscape—lush, unruly, and ever-changing—not merely …