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Marianne Boesky Gallery is pleased to present Orbits, an exhibition of work by gallery staff and their choices of guest artists. Featuring painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography, Orbits brings together a group of artists whose work is inevitably influenced by the art they encounter in the course of their day jobs.
All artists draw inspiration from the world around them—from the art they see, the books they read, and the experiences they have. Working throughout the gallery as registrars, art handlers, and assistants, the artists featured in Orbits spend their days steeped in contemporary art. Both consciously and subconsciously, the host of influences in their immediate environment filters through the work these artists create in their own studios.
For the exhibitions, each staff artist invited another artist—someone in their orbit, whose work has informed or influenced their practice—to place in conversion with their own work. Orbits offers an insight into the interests—material, formal, and conceptual—of artists who work in and around the orbit of Marianne Boesky Gallery.
Registrar Bill Ellis presents a selection of black-and-white photographs that span the past several years of his practice—and that speak to his ongoing drive to tell stories through the lens. Ellis invited Brian van Lau, a photographer with shared influences whom Ellis has long admired.
Preparator Paul Krause presents a selection of new mixed-media sculptures that represent an unexpected culmination of several disparate bodies of work—work realized with the benefit of time and experience. Krause invited Linda Ganjian, a fellow Queens-based artist whose work marries craft with pattern and abstraction to make visible her ongoing devotion to experimenting with elements of heritage and tradition.
Co-head preparator Lucy Parker presents a new faceted gemstone reliquary that examines themes of memory, intimacy, vulnerability, loss, and preservation. Parker invited Chantal Wnuk, an artist who, like Parker, explores the tender tension of strength and vulnerability in facing loss.
Gallery assistant Macy Rajacich presents a selection of new paintings that investigate notions of memory through depictions of ethereal figures and quotidian settings. Rajacich invited Priya Peña, an artist whose work engages in similar themes of figuration and domesticity.
Preparator Carlos Rodriguez presents three paintings from a series titled Everything Is Memory, which deploy layered forms, color tension and spatial interruption to examine the instability of memory. Rodriguez invited his sister, Diana R, an artist who shares a dialogue with Rodriguez around abstraction, structure, and fragmentation from a distinct entry point.
Co-head preparator Phill Thomas presents a pair of figurative drawings alongside a new experimental painting in acrylic. Thomas invited Linda Sormin, whose work reflects a subjectivity not unlike Thomas’s own.
Preparator W.G. Tonner presents a wood and found material sculpture of a cigar box that evokes the sumptuous settings of historic paintings. Tonner invited Chisato Yamakawa, an artist who examines the ephemeral nature of experience.