Bird World

Theta is pleased to present Bird World, the first solo exhibition by New York-based artist Ty Palow (b. 1999). Often building from photographs transferred onto wood-grain panels and reworked by hand, Palow's new works blur photography and painting, treating the present as if it were already memory and memory as present. Moving between salvaged furniture, antique textiles, East Village dive bars, cherry blossoms, and autofictional scenes of queer life in New York, the works explore the afterlive…