(Guest Curator: Ellen Hackl Fagan)

Dates: April 7 - 30, 2023
Opening reception: Friday, April 7, 6-8 pm
Closing Reception and Artist's Talk: Sunday, April 30, 3-5 pm
Space 776, 37-39 Clinton Street, NYC 10002
Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 12-6
Note: Extended hours Thursday evening, April 20, from 6-8, in conjunction with LES galleries' Third Thursdays

https://www.space776.com/circlesandellipses

Space 776 is pleased to present Circles and Ellipses - a five-person exhibition curated by Ellen Hackl Fagan (Artist, Curator, and Founder of ODETTA gallery).

Featuring artists: Charles Birnbaum, Sue Carlson, the Estate of David Hayes, Tayo Heuser, and Liz Jaff. The exhibition is dedicated to the memory of artist Jane Harris, whose focus on circles and ellipses inspired this exhibition.

The five artists in this exhibition have spent much of their careers focused on the most primal forms of design, the circle, and the ellipse. These archetypes can be found in human art forms across the planet, and throughout our time as humans, even before the Neanderthals. From inscribed lines cut into the stone, minerals smudged and painted on earthen walls, tools, dwellings, pre-historic mound builders' sites, and on, and on, these two forms create the subject, from which innumerable meanings and uses spring forth.

This is but a small glimpse of the many artists making artwork today who also focus on these simple, yet expansive forms. While sharing a similar source the final images and objects created are as unique as the individual creators themselves. The unifying element for this exhibition is their shared instinct to employ a reductive, yet rigorous focus.

Ranging from minute intricate details to upscaled objects and sculptures in steel, these artists fluidly transition between the ephemeral and the permanent.

Hope to see you at the opening Friday night the 7th! Big thanks to Jourdain Lee and Dasha Basanova for this terrific opportunity to bring this exhibition into view.

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