New Zip Code, a Solo Exhibition by Cuban-American Artist Arlet Gómez
33 Contemporary Gallery is pleased to present New Zip Code, a solo exhibition by Cuban-American artist Arlet Gómez, on view June 5 through June 30, 2026, inside the Palm Beach Art & Design Showroom in Lake Worth Beach, Florida.
The exhibition opens with a public reception honoring the artist on Friday, June 5, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. Guests are also invited to join curator Sergio Gomez for a special Curator’s Chat with the artist at 7:00 PM.
New Zip Code is a contemporary painting series and installation project rooted in Gómez’s experience as a Cuban artist shaped by migration, memory, childhood, and faith. Through layered surfaces of oil and acrylic, Gómez combines neo-expressionist brushwork with an impressionistic treatment of light, allowing imagined cities, emotional landscapes, and spiritual architectures to emerge throughout the work.
At the heart of the exhibition is a deep reflection on belonging and displacement. Children, houses, castles, boats, and fragments of play appear as recurring symbols within Gómez’s visual language. The children become figures of imagination, hope, and spiritual resilience, while embedded toy soldiers—objects connected to the artist’s own childhood in Cuba—appear as symbolic antagonists, introducing tension into otherwise dreamlike environments.
Through this contrast between innocence and threat, play and instability, New Zip Code expands a personal story into a broader meditation on the emotional and spiritual structures we build in search of home. The imagined houses, castles, and boats within the series become metaphors for protection, identity, and longing, even as they remain vulnerable to external forces.
Accompanying the paintings, Gómez presents an installation composed of minimal linear wooden structures inspired by digital wireframe models. These architectural forms extend the imagery of the paintings into the gallery space, transforming the exhibition into a transitable psychological landscape. Within New Zip Code, the imagined castle is never entirely secure; every architecture of belonging carries its own tensions and enemies. Yet through faith, the work ultimately points toward the idea of an enduring city—an eternal dwelling place beyond geography, memory, or displacement.
Born in Cuba, Arlet Gómez graduated from the Higher Institute of Art (ISA) in Havana in 2009 before relocating to West Palm Beach, where she currently lives and works. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and has been recognized through multiple awards, including the Award of Merit at the A.E. Backus Museum & Gallery’s Best of the Best juried exhibition. Her work has also been featured in exhibitions at the Coral Springs Museum of Art and the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County. In Cuba, she received the Juan Francisco Elso Grant in 2010 from AHS.
“New Zip Code invites us into a world where memory, migration, childhood, and faith intersect,” says curator Sergio Gomez. “Arlet’s work creates a powerful visual language in which imagined cities and fragile structures become symbols of longing, resilience, and the search for a home that endures beyond place.”
The public is warmly invited to attend the opening reception, meet the artist, and experience the exhibition in person.
Exhibition: New Zip Code
Artist: Arlet Gómez
Presented by: 33 Contemporary Gallery
Dates: June 5–30, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, June 5, 2026, 6:00–8:00 PM
Curator’s Chat: Friday, June 5, 2026, at 7:00 PM
Location: 33 Contemporary Gallery inside the Palm Beach Art & Design Showroom. 500 N. Dixie Hwy.
City: Lake Worth Beach, Florida
