Frank Olt

New York, NY- Space 776 is pleased to present a solo exhibition of paintings and ceramics by New York-based artist Frank Olt at Space 776 New York on view from March 26 to April 25, 2021. Olt’s abstract work form a unique hybrid of ceramics and painting in the New York school tradition. Forged in his signature style, they combine ceramic media and glazing components with mixed media; rich hues from encaustics bring together the small not-quite-symmetrical abstract pieces in a way that sometimes recalls the color field artists, though often suggesting landscape. Frank Olt is an artist and professor at Long Island University whose studio practice focuses on ceramics and painting. He is a former artist-in-residence at MoMA P.S.1. He studied with Bauhaus artist Rose Krebs. Olt exhibited and has collectors nationally and internationally. His commissions include all ceramic art at the 23rd & Ely subway station through the NYC Arts for Transit program and Bellevue Hospital. His work was exhibited recently in a one-person show in the Contemporary Gallery at Nassau County Museum of Art. Space776 is an international contemporary art gallery with spaces in New York and Seoul. – Sign up to Space776’s Newsletter: www.space776.com Follow Space776 on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3kQbKTY​

Lynn Basa: In the Aggregate February 26 - March 23, 2021 Aggregate: - a whole formed by combining several (typically disparate) elements. - a material or structure formed from a loosely compacted mass of fragments or particles. Paintings made by scraping through layers of previous decisions to find that the process itself turns them into something else in the aggregate. Of course, it’s an allegory for the imperfection of memory, and the impossibility of going back. But that can be a good thing. Some things need to stay buried. Basa’s interest in materials began as a child by grubbing for fossils in the ravines of southern Indiana and weaving nests in clumps of prairie grass. After a long foray into clay and fiber art she turned to painting with encaustic because the medium of oil pigment and beeswax provides many of the effects of ceramics without a process mediated by equipment and kiln time. Lynn Basa lives and works in Chicago in an old storefront that was originally a Polish sausage shop. She has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in-studio and critical theory, and a BA in fine art from Indiana University with a concentration in ceramics. She taught in the Sculpture Department at SAIC and is the author of The Artist’s Guide to Public Art. Space776 is an international contemporary art gallery with spaces in New York and Seoul. – Sign up to Space776’s Newsletter: www.space776.com Follow Space776 on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3kQbKTY​

Rimm Chae | Dancing Willows February 5 - 23, 2021 With her experience of 20 years as a jewelry designer and her knowledge of traditional lacquer art, she started creating “sculptural paintings.” Chae’s work has taken the form of “sculptural paintings,” bringing both painting and sculpture together into one. Although Chae’s work is based on conventional Korean lacquer paintings, the bold use of color and repetition of points and lines bring these paintings closer to Western art. Using mother-of-pearl and different precious stones such as traditional gemstones (coral, amber, jade, lapis lazuli, tiger’s eye), pearls, turquoise, her art represents the meeting point between painting and sculpture, conceptualism and realism. Rimm Chae received the Leonardo Da Vinci Award in Florence, Italy. Her works of art were also accepted and exhibited at the Start Art Fair held at London’s Saatchi Gallery in 2017. She became the first Korean ever to win the SOLO Award at the Artexpo New York. The International André Malraux Association also awarded her at the International Cultural Heritage Fair held in Paris. She has successfully held numerous solo exhibitions in Seoul, New York, and Paris. Her artwork has also been well-received at leading art fairs in Miami, Barcelona, Singapore, Cologne, Taipei, London, Brussels, and Toulouse. Space776 is an international contemporary art gallery with spaces in New York and Seoul. – Sign up to Space776’s Newsletter: www.space776.com Follow Space776 on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3kQbKTY

Liz-N-Val, Jean Oh, So Ye Oh, and MarcusGlitteris Something from Nothing Art 37-39 Clinton St NEW YORK December 4 - 27, 2020 Opening Reception: 6-8pm, Friday, December 4, 2020 Space776 is pleased to present Something from Nothing Art, a group exhibition featuring new and important works by artists Liz-N-Val, Jean Oh, So Ye Oh, and MarcusGlitteriS. Artists: Liz-N-Val is the moniker of the Eastern European art team, Elizabeth Clark (b.1931) and Valentine Goroshko (b.1944), based in NYC. They have been a working team for over thirty years, inventing numerous conceptual museums and the concept of Signature Art. Liz-N-Val has mixed various mediums, including drawing, painting, sculpture, and combining all of the above plus language art. The artists have set precedents in the expanded field of art since the conceptual art movement. Liz-N-Val is the founder of Abstractrealism: the philosophy of "something from nothing Art.” ​ Jean Oh (b.1992) holds a BFA from MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art) and an MFA from Pratt Institute. Oh has been featured in Saatchi Art Rising Stars Report 2019. She also has been selected as the winner of the Silver Award for AHL-T&W Foundation Contemporary Visual Art Awards. She has had solo exhibitions at the Steuben Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, and Project space at the NARS Foundation in Brooklyn, NY. Her work was presented by numerous group shows in the USA: 2019 11th Annual Juried Art Show (Riverviews Artspace, Lynchburg, VA); 2018 Small Work 2018 (Trestle Gallery Brooklyn, NY); and Concept 2018 (CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea.) So Ye Oh (b.1993) is a New York-based artist, making soft sculpture-like shabby dolls and baby blankets using her own digitally printed fabrics and found fabrics. With developmental psychology studies from her college and further research she has done in graduate school, she focuses on childhood and parenthood themes, especially the relationship between a mother and a child. She received a BA from the University of Michigan in 2016 and graduated from the MFA Fine Arts program at Pratt Institute in May 2020. MarcusGlitteriS (b.1975) is a self-taught artist from the Lower East Side. His paintings are inspired by vibrant fluorescent colors, glitter, metallics, textiles, and pop culture. His art is inspired by nightclubs, the energy of The New York City ”Club Kids“, DragQueens, and Creatures of the Night. Fluorescent Painting was born in ”The Cosmic Cavern” Kenny Scharf Installation at The Tunnel N.Y.C. Space776 is an international contemporary art gallery with spaces in New York and Seoul. - Sign up for Space776’s Newsletter: www.space776.com - Follow Space776 on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3kQbKTY

Nina Klein An Open Myth: reimagining gender and femininity January 15 - February 3, 2021 Space 776 is pleased to present an exhibition of 19 new paintings by Los Angeles based artist Nina Klein at Space 776 New York in collaboration with Uncommon Beauty Gallery, on view from January 15 to February 3, 2021. Using various media such as acrylic, gouache, and enamel paint on paper or unprimed canvas, Nina Klein creates her signature visual lexicon of symbolic shapes within the female body. The symbolic and iconographic shapes found within Klein’s paintings serve as vehicles to express themes of sex and identity and pose questions about traditional gender roles and expectations. Klein subverts the male gaze by representing female experiences such as the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, and birth as well as reimagining archetypal mythic female figures, such as the witch or the Virgin Mary, as subjects seen and created through a female lens. Nina Klein (b. 1987, Southfield, MI) expects a graduate BA from UCLA in 2022 and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Her works have been shown widely in the U.S., including Aqua Art Fair Miami, Glass Rice Gallery San Francisco, Uncommon Beauty Gallery New York, and Barrett Gallery Santa Monica. 37-39 Clinton Street New York Hours: Tuesday - Sunday, 12 pm - 6 pm For inquiries, please contact at info@space776.com www.space776.com https://www.instagram.com/space_776/

The 3rd Art Zine Fest: Deskarga Groupo Between Us and Then November 20 - November 25, 2020 Space 776 presents the third annual Art Zine Fest, from November 20-25, 2020, at 37-39 Clinton Street in the Lower East Side. Space776’s Art Zine Fest is the Brooklyn based artists’ gathering for the distribution of artists’ books, celebrating the full breadth of the art self-publishing community. Space776 is an international contemporary art gallery with spaces in New York and Seoul. - Sign up for Space776’s Newsletter: www.space776.com - Follow Space776 on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3kQbKTY

New York, NY- Space 776 is pleased to present Constellation - The Hidden Dimension, an exhibition of new paintings by Jaena Kwon, on view from October 23 through November 18th at 37-39 Clinton Street in the Lower East Side. Jaena Kwon’s work is concerned with painting components and how painting space is constructed. She treats painting as an image objectified or embedded in physical material. Her works are always solid colors which give more chance to notice differences in surface topography, gradual edge changes, boundaries from layered surfaces, subtle indentations, and textures are used to make the viewer examine the work’s shape and texture closely. Space776 is an international contemporary art gallery with spaces in New York and Seoul. #space776 #jaenakwon #artistsinterview

September 25 – October 21, 2020 New York, NY- Space 776 is pleased to present Life and Karma, an exhibition of new photography by Andy H. Jung, on view from September 25th through October 21st at 37-39 Clinton Street in the Lower East Side. In his first show with Space 776, he introduces the Plants series, which he has begun in 2005. The new works in the series capture and elaborate upon an instinctual reaction between humans and plants in a natural setting. Using photography, the artist represents this through the themes of Life and Karma. The represented works use multiple photographs spliced together using a technique akin to quilting that connects both horizontally and vertically using white and red threads. This transforms a large number of photos into a singular piece. “For a long time, I have been observing plants that are common around us. One day, I found a mysterious but familiar figure in them. Although they are immovable beings, I can see their aggressive and defensive shape in them at every moment. It was like the instinct of our humans.” The artist has chosen these colors for their symbolic meaning. In East Asian tradition, the color white signifies life, while red signifies karma, fate, or opportunity. Many works concerning karma speak that we, as individual people, meet countless opportunities and fateful relationships throughout our lives. However, it is not easy for one to connect them with our lives, expressing the different weight and feeling of life that one feels at each moment through the extra brightness and exposure in each picture. Andy Hwan-Young Jung (b.1978, South Korea) received his MFA from the Pratt Institute and BFA in Fine Art Photography from San Francisco Art Institute. He has shown extensively in Seoul, New York, Milano, and London; United Nations, Boroomsan Museum of Art, Diego Rivera Gallery, Donggang International Photo Festival, Kim Jong Bok Museum of Art, Keumsan Gallery. Jung won the Leica Award for artist of the year in 2019 and was named Official Ambassador for Nikon Imaging Korea in 2020. Andy H. Jung lives and works in Seoul, South Korea. Space776 is an international contemporary art gallery with spaces in New York and Seoul. For all inquiries, please contact at info@space776.com ​www.space776.com https://www.instagram.com/space_776/