Seas, Night Skies, and Deserts

Karolina Bielawska Peter Brock Kenji Ide Stella Zhong

Seas, Night Skies, and Deserts is an exhibition inspired by the allure of the horizon. Bringing together the work of four artists working across different media, this show invites questions about boundaries. Where do these divisions begin? What role does language play in dividing the world and naming the parts? Do the contoured edges that make up our surroundings mirror those within our patterns of thought? Is it possible to decouple the act of delineating difference from the formation of a binary proposition?

The works in this exhibition invite you to linger with the uncertainty that lurks within the most obvious distinctions: between land and sky, solid and liquid, light and metal, presence and absence.

Karolina Bielawska (b. 1986 in Poland) lives and works in Warsaw. Selected solo shows: Connective Tissue, Wschód, Warsaw (2023), As Above, So Below, BWA Olsztyn, Olsztyn (2022), Fields w/ Matthew Peers, Wschód, Warsaw (2021). Selected group shows: Soft, Hidden, Exposed, Double Q Gallery, Hong Kong; Baitball Project 02, Palazzo San Giuseppe (both 2022), Metamorphosis, Pola Magnetyczne, Warsaw (2019); Stranger Danger, Friend of a Friend Prague, Stone Project, Prague (2019), First World Problems: Life Before Death, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice (2019), First World Problems: Life Before Death, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw (2019).

Peter Brock (b. 1986) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Selected solo shows: An Ear at the Edge of a Chasm, Someday Gallery, New York (2024), The Quadrangular Sky, Fastnet, Brooklyn NY (2018) More Science, Less Fear, 83 Pitt Street, New York, NY (2016). Selected group shows: Eighth House Residency Benefit Show, Karma Gallery, New York, Two person booth at Miart with Diez Gallery, Milan, Italy (both: 2024), Perpetual Screw, International Objects, Brooklyn, NY, The Invention of Nature, Someday Gallery x Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles (both 2023), Cul de Sac, Cathouse Proper, Brooklyn, NY (2022), Honoring the Dog-Legging Horizon, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY (2021).

Kenji Ide (b. 1981 in Japan) lives and works in Tokyo. Selected solo shows: American Friend, Adams and Ollman, Portland, USA (2024), Two persons, two times/Kayokoyuki/Tokyo (2023), A poem of Perception curated by Matt Jay/Portland Japanese Garden/Portland (2022), Banana Moon, Watermelon Sun (Landmark )/Goya Curtain/Tokyo (2021). Selected group shows: In Search of the Miraculous, Wschód, Warsaw (2023), Social Life/KNULP/Sydney (2021), The Sentimental Organization of the World/Crevecoeur/Paris (2020, Tsukimi / Yugen (Jiri Kovanda, Kenji Ide, two artists show)/Guimaråes/Vienna (2019).

Stella Zhong (b. 1993 in China) lives and works in New York City, USA. Selected solo shows: Inertia, The Intermission, Piraeus, GRC (2024), Chapter NY, New York (2023), (of an object) Synchronized Loss, Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR Stella Zhong, Fig. 2 PLOT, Fanta-MLN, Milan (2022), comet without a tail, Chapter NY, New York (2021), Empty City, Spring/Break Art Show, New York, NYC (2019). Selected group shows: Why Do I know You So Well?, Deborah Schamoni, Munich (2024), The Fullness of the Seeming Void, Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR (2024), off-worlds, YveYANG Gallery, New York, NY, Body without Organs, Chapter NY, New York (both 2023), Cove(r), in lieu, Los Angeles, CA, The Hearing Trumpet Part 2, Galerie Marguo, Paris, FR (2022), 52 Artists: Revisiting a Feminist Milestone, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (2022), InPractice: Literally means collapse, SculptureCenter, New York, NY (2022).