Held in Layers brings together a selection of contemporary paintings from PAMM’s collection, all of which are being presented for the first time. The exhibition offers a focused look at how painting is being approached today across a range of practices, highlighting diverse techniques, materials, and methods to image-making. From abstraction to works that engage figuration and objecthood, each painting reflects a distinct approach—foregrounding decisions around surface, structure, and process.

Seen together, these works invite close looking. They draw attention to how paintings are built, revised, and resolved, offering insight into the varied languages contemporary painters employ. By bringing these works into view, the exhibition creates space to encounter painting in its current moment through the diversity of practices represented in the museum’s collection.

Presenting artists are Lucy Bull, Tomm El-Saieh, Justine Hill, Paulo Nimer Pjota, and Clara Varas.