Adrian Bermeo: No Need To Reminisce

On view through Oct.4, 2025 Closing reception: Oct.4, 6—11 PM LIV GALLERY 424 E 9th St, New York, NY Mon—Sun, 11am—6pm “Rooted in his lived experiences as a native New Yorker of Puerto Rican and Ecuadorian descent, along with his formative influences in graffiti, Adrian Bermeo prompts audiences to consider a reverberating truth: intergenerational knowledge and identity will always endure as long as familial traditions and collective memory are reinforced. Through abstract-figuration and representational paintings, Bermeo reflects on the erasure of cultural histories while reclaiming narratives through both personal and political lenses. His first solo exhibition with the gallery addresses censorship and restrictive policies imposed onto immigrant communities, submitting instead a subversive reality—one grounded in cyclical legacies of ancestral impacts, uninhibited by legislation wishing to dilute or scrub such contributions. This exhibition carries profound personal resonance, tributing to his maternal great-grandmother’s arrival on Delancey Street in Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 1938. No Need To Reminisce transpires as a reminder and public offering, determining that neither cherished memories or dark truths of violence be disguised as something light-hearted or nostalgic—casted aside as distant relics. Instead, they must remain visible, active, and brought forward. In this evidence lies our duty and unified solace to honor what was given, to guard against historical distortion, and to continue living through those who walked before us—laying paths that allowed our very own in this present moment to exist. — Adrian Bermeo, 2025