Lower East Side, New York
Group Exhibition
Summer Viewing
Heft GalleryAlkan Avcioglu & Edward Burtynsky, Nancy Burson, Damjanski, Kevin Esherick, Auriea Harvey, Eno Henze, Michael Kozlowski, Michael Mandiberg, Qubibi, Luke Shannon, Studio Lemercier, Ashley Zelinskie, Tracing a living cross-section of Heft's program, Summer Viewing brings together recent works from exhibitions at Heft, voices from the gallery's wider orbit, and key pieces by artists with upcoming solo shows. Across the exhibition, abstraction and depiction appear as contrasting modes of inquiry, transforming source material into new ways of seeing our world. Drawing from data, mathematics, photography, history, observation, and mythology, the works translate these existing sources into artworks that connect contemporary concerns with enduring questions of identity, knowledge, and the underlying structures around us. Together, these artists use systems as both method and subject: as tools for making new images, forms, and patterns – and as a means of examining the larger systems shaping perception and understanding today. "Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth." —Pablo Picasso