STOWAWAY is pleased to present 'Summit', a solo presentation by Brooklyn-based Kyle Hittmeier, his second show with the gallery. Please join us for the opening reception Saturday, September 19th, 2026 from 6-8 pm.

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Your doorman hands you a letter without postage. The pale green envelope is embossed with the word Summit. You run your fingertips over your name calligraphed on the front. A slight scent of juniper and vetiver rises upon opening.

It reads:

You're invited to join burgeoning business leaders, diplomats, royalty, philanthropists, and our greatest cultural thinkers on the world stage for Summit 2026.

This year's world forum theme is 'Rhizome: How intersecting systems create pathways to security.'

Inspired by the intricacies of nature, we'll convene at Pipkrakes Mountain, in the newly established multi-level conference chalet.

The full week of activity will be revealed upon entry to the center. Activities will include closed-door forums, fireside chats, think tanks, and strategic networking. Interspersed between scheduled events, some of the world's finest artists and musicians will perform in the grand hallways and theatre venues.

The high-altitude vistas will provide the serenity to tackle some of our most poignant problems, and the exclusive access to the mountain's peaks will provide crucial privacy and security.

Invitation is exclusive. To secure your spot, follow the instructions in the QR below and sign the DocuSign NDA form sent to your email.

We look forward to your future impact in these important discussions.

~(a signature you can't make out)

You slip it into your Belkin laptop case you're holding after returning from an all-hands Zoom. Ever since designing an algorithm on how basal body temperature correlates to impulsivity, you keep getting invitations to conferences and offers from some of the biggest venture capitalists, especially those in health tech wearables.

A mandate to explore reactivity in relation to preventing accidents, motivated by personal tragedy and a drive to understand what creates human error, has been co-opted to relate to consumer targeting. Deciding which company gets the rights to use your technology has put you in a moral quandary, but also offers financial leverage you've never before experienced.

Summit 2026 would allow you to meet with some of the top scientists and engineers in a spectacular venue, in one concentrated event. This is being called the new Davos, comparable to the World Economic Forum or the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium.

Part of what unlocked your research into reactivity was derived from studying mycorrhizal networks and how hub trees provided warning signals for trees in their network to avoid illness and disease present in other colonies. It's interesting to see terms so integral to complex systems stamped so casually onto letterhead: Rhizome. You wonder when rebuilding is meaningful versus aesthetic.

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This ascent is new to you—you watch the meadows of lodgepole pine turn into a belt of deep rust red fir, and then, as you rise, a meadow of sparse whitebark pine, the same tree species you had studied for your research, lets you meditate on how just beneath the frozen rigid soil is a complex and lively network—firing and flickering with nutrients and information. Reaching the summit peak, you watch how the krummholz shrubs, weathered by constant wind, barely hang on to the cold earth. They dot the peaks, sharing space with long early morning shadows across the alpine tundra.

A slice of sunrise, neon orange, cuts across your eyes. Circles of light seem to float; a sensation that it's almost dangerous to look at forces you to shield your gaze. In the cabin, you're the only one who flinched—every other head bowed to a smaller, colder light. Their heads tilted at the same angle, seeming to react with panic at some digital signal.

— Text by Rachel MacFarlane, a writer and visual artist based in New York

Hittmeier's interdisciplinary work has long been rooted in the examination of despotic economies, he returns to the gallery with an exhibition exploring landscape in the venture-capitolcene era. Drawing from two elite alpine territories ensconced with central bankers and international monetary players, Hittmeier explores both Jackson Hole, Wyoming and Davos, Switzerland as territories camouflaging their economic capital amidst their pristine natural surroundings.

The Summit features a mixture of oil and acrylic painting interspersed with UV prints on fiberglass stand-mat. Scenes of snowfall from elevated mountain tops meet quasi-abstract, synthetic-spiritual paintings of truncated sun-dogs (a high altitude phenomena caused by fractal ice crystals in the sky).

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Kyle Hittmeier (American, b. 1983) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work integrates 3d digital space with physical media. Hittmeier graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a Master's of Fine Arts in Painting. He was a resident artist at Natthagen Air Residency (Norway), Un/mute 10002, OCAD Digital Painting Atelier; and the Wassaic Residency Program. Hittmeier lives and works in Brooklyn, NY where he teaches at CUNY Lehman College and The New School.

Recent exhibitions include Stowaway Gallery; Crossing Art Gallery; Beijing Dangdai Art Fair; High Noon Gallery; The Austrian Cultural Forum, New York; Nancy Margolis Gallery; the Boston Center for the Arts; SPRING/BREAK (LA +NY); Arlington Arts Center, Transfer Gallery, and Coherent Gallery.