Art Gallery
Embers is a Washington, DC art gallery committed to presenting compelling contemporary work and supporting artists through thoughtfully curated exhibitions, programming, and community engagement.
Every two months we feature a local artist and host an art exhibition opening and closing event. Come check out our unique art pieces, art prints and art books for sale at our gallery.
Art Exhibition "Open Season"
Opening Date: 3/8/26
Embers Presents Open Season: New Paintings by Del Chapo. A raw, layered exhibition channeling grindhouse intensity into luminous, confrontational portraiture.
Visually, the works in Open Season fuse figuration with graphic interruptions and bold, high-contrast color fields. Gestural blocks of pigment, symbols, and abrasive marks compete with—and amplify—the face beneath, turning portraiture into a psychological arena.
Built through movement, layering, and real-time decision-making, Del Chapo’s paintings carry the evidence of their own making.
Featured Local Artist
About Del Chapo
Delfon is a contemporary painter whose works are inspired by the early grindhouse and exploitation genre films. He attended Morgan State University, where he earned a degree in Marketing, and where his time at the historic HBCU shaped his artistic vision and sense of cultural identity. Featured in galleries as early as age 13, Delfon rediscovered his love for painting while apprenticing as a tattoo artist during his final semesters of college. Since graduating, he has maintained a consistent studio practice grounded in repetition, research, and sustained looking rather than quick conclusions.
Every painting grows through movement, layering, and decision-making in the moment. Mistakes are part of the process. Drips, scratches, and overpainting are not accidents—they are proof of thinking, reacting, and pushing the work forward, leaving them visible because they make the work honest and alive. His visual language draws from the raw and confrontational energy of exploitation cinema, embracing urgency, excess, tension, and imperfection to explore internal conflict, desire, and the instability of the human figure.