Prismatic City: Landmarks In Light | Exhibition

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• Thu, Feb 12, 2026 - Fri, Apr 10, 2026  

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Raymundo Valdez | PRISMATIC CITY: LANDMARKS IN LIGHT

🗓️ February 12 - April 10
📍 220 Montgomery Street

KALW presents Raymundo Valdez's Prismatic City, a solo art exhibition showing the city as it lives: layered, luminous, & constantly changing. Valdez's first solo exhibition, PRISMATIC CITY: LANDMARKS IN LIGHT, is on view in San Francisco at KALW’s Live Event Studio Art Gallery through April 10.

Artist Statement: 

"This show is deeply personal to me. Prismatic City is my exploration of San Francisco; not as a postcard image, but as a place I live in, walk through, and experience every day. The landmarks in these paintings aren’t distant monuments. They’re part of my daily life.

Working in oil on canvas, I reinterpret these familiar structures through my signature diamond-like fractal style, breaking them into luminous planes of color and rhythm. These works are shaped by real moments: walking the streets, watching fog move across the skyline, and observing how light shifts from morning to dusk and into night.

At its heart, this exhibition is about connection. I hope these paintings bring recognition, warmth, and a reminder of what we love about San Francisco. If a piece sparks a memory or creates a quiet moment of happiness, then I’ve done what I set out to do.

Prismatic City reflects how the city is lived. Layered, luminous, and constantly changing."

Raymundo Valdez is a Mexican-American fine artist transforming cityscapes and deserts into vibrant oil paintings using his signature diamond-like fractal effect; an intricate style that reveals the hidden geometry, rhythm, and beauty of the everyday.