Kayla Delacerda
Torus Loop

Opening Reception for the Artist
Sunday, May 31, 11 am - 4 pm


May 23 — June 27, 2026

Fredric Snitzer Gallery is pleased to present Torus Loop, a solo exhibition by emerging Miami-based artist Kayla Delacerda. Marking the culmination of a three-year investigation into text-based painting, the exhibition presents a body of work exploring the emotional and psychological terrain of contemporary human experience. Drawing from themes of loss, spirituality, acceptance, love, longing, and the difficulty of relating to others and oneself, Delacerda transforms language into both image and emotional architecture.

Across the exhibition, words function simultaneously as confession, confrontation, and abstraction. Delacerda’s paintings unfold as streams of consciousness, bearing traces of inner dialogue rendered with immediacy and emotional vulnerability. Statements oscillate between poetic reflection and psychic residue, communicating a shared emotional undercurrent rooted in uncertainty, desire, grief, and the search for meaning. These weighted emotional expressions are subverted through Delacerda’s playful stylization, saturated color, shifting typography, and childlike mark-making. Humor and levity coexist with anguish and self-awareness, creating works that bypass artifice in favor of direct emotional connection.

Delacerda’s newest works engage themes of transformation, surrender, and renewal while incorporating imagery and language drawn from public space, memory, and everyday observation. Text becomes layered, fragmented, inverted, and at times nearly illegible within dense pictorial fields. Typography collides with gestural painting, symbols, and abstract forms, slowing the viewer’s reading and encouraging prolonged engagement with the work's surface. Meaning is no longer delivered directly, but discovered through accumulation, rhythm, texture, and visual intuition. These paintings move beyond language as communication toward language as material, atmosphere, and sensation.

What emerges throughout Torus Loop is a practice deeply invested in the emotional possibilities of painting itself. The result is a body of work that feels at once deeply personal and universally resonant, reflecting the fragmented emotional realities of contemporary life. Rather than offering closure, Torus Loop proposes painting as an open system: a continuous unfolding of consciousness, emotion, and perception.

About Kayla Delacerda 
Kayla Delacerda (b. 1992 Miami, FL) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Miami. Delacerda received a Bachelor in Fine Arts in Photography from New World School of the Arts (2015). Between 2015 and 2020, she spearheaded the social practice art collective Midnight Thrift. In 2017, she was a participant in MFU, a fellowship residency jointly organized between Oolite Arts and BHQFU in Miami, Florida. Solo exhibitions include Down On Paper at Tunnel Projects’ Touché Boutique, Miami, FL (2024); and Acceptance at NAME Publications, Miami, FL (2023). Selected group exhibitions include the 16th iteration of the A.I.R. Biennial “I woke up dreaming” at A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY (2025); and Residential Properties at Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Miami, FL (2023). Delacerda has received commissions from Oolite Arts and New World School of the Arts (2018, Miami, FL), iii Points Music and Technology Festival (2017, Miami, FL), and Borscht Corporation (2019 and 2014, Miami, FL).