Art and Networking: January Edition

​Please join us for an evening of Art and Networking - January edition! BitFactory will host our happy hour featuring Jude Barton Clint Eccher & Brayden Espinosa. Brought to you by BitFactory and Fourteener Strategies, your operational accounting and fractional CFO group.

Three-artist Exhibition

​Jude Baron

​Clint Eccher

​Brayden Espinosa

​Bitfactory Gallery carries us into the new year with a powerful new show, on view Dec 19, 2025 – Jan 10, 2026, at 851 Santa Fe Drive. Deconstructing the Zeitgeist features abstract work by Jude Barton, Clint Eccher, and Brayden Espinosa. Each artist brings their distinct approach to composition, mark-making and material, creating a dynamic exhibition that feels both rigorous and alive yet disquieting.

​As gallerist and curator, Bill Thomason, explains, “The dialogue between Barton’s intentional, minimalistic, geometric abstractions and the brash, charged, almost reckless brushstrokes of Espinosa’s abstract expressionism, anchored by Eccher’s darker, urban, and dense neo-primitivism sitting between them, creates a dynamic field of exchange without tipping into visual excess.” He goes on to say, “The tension, the push/pull, and underlying sense of unease I wanted the viewer to experience required a very specific dialogue between the works.”

​Barton has a strong affinity with architecture, music, and geometric axioms, referring to her work as Modern Formalism—an assertion of and revitalization of form. Her hard-edge geometric paintings perform a deconstruction of the zeitgeist at the level of form itself. On the surface, the precise lines and simplicity of contained color fields present a visual vocabulary of stability and rational order by which traditional contemporary culture imagines itself to be, infiltrated by an underpainting of fugitive washes and random minimal marks, imprints and patterns that both enable and undo the authority of the geometric surface.

​Eccher works within his “tiered painting” method, which involves layering artworks on top of each other, using LED lights to reveal and modify the bottom piece of art. As an artist who is increasingly focused on truth, fairness and justice, his work ranges from openly bold textual statements to exposing all sides of a subject as objectively as possible. As in this show, his goal is to stimulate intellectual work and critical thinking in the viewer to find peace of mind within the grey areas of a subject.

​Espinosa takes an intuitive approach to his deeply expressive art, allowing imagery to fall naturally into place, mimicking found energy and light to give each piece its own distinct voice. The work in this show is a visual digestion of slippage and escalation happening simultaneously within our current social fabric. Through this tension, the work seeks to hold the unstable moment where clarity and ambiguity coexist, revealing the quiet forces shaping the spaces between us.