Join us for the opening of two new exhibitions!

In the main gallery, Emma Safir: Passionate Wretch, whose paintings tarry at the boundaries of privacy and presentation, interiority and reflection, temptation and rejection. Safir photographs textures—fences, blinds, water, leaves, fabric—and then physically works against them. Printed onto gauzy, semi-transparent fabrics, Safir smocks, beads, or upholsters the images over sculptural forms, burying them beneath layers of accumulated handiwork until they function less as pictures than as surfaces: pressured, adorned, and only partially visible. She calls the results paintings. Taking its title from an excerpt by William Blake, Passionate Wretch brings together two new bodies of work by Safir. 

In the project space, Isabelle Janssen: Gitmo Baby is an accumulation of personal archival materials digitized into a 2000’s Geocities homepage. By logging on to the domain, the viewer is able to explore this narrative performance of web-self within the artists’ fictionalized childhood bedroom, bringing the voyeurism of online social spaces into question and bending the rules of socially acceptable oversharing.