Jaena Kwon (b. 1986, South Korea) earned her MFA in Painting and Printmaking at Yale University School of Art. Her work incorporates the elements of painting to go beyond the possibility of expanding the pictorial space of the flat surface. In her practice, folding and sanding is a way of expanding the surface and support the structure of the painting. Working with wood, light density fiberboard, gesso, acrylic, and pigments, she creates shaped work that achieves a fluid and haptic texture that heighten the logic of dimensions and psychological affect. Space 776 is the newest gallery in the Lower East Side art scene in New York, Space 776 has been creating a space for a wide range of artists whose medium of work stretches from live multimedia performances to traditional oil painting. Follow along on social media and join the conversation @space_776 For further information, please contact: info@space776.com Space776 is an international contemporary art gallery with spaces in New York and Seoul. www.space776.com #artist #documentaries #painting #jaenakwon #space776

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/

Space 776 and 22K present: Artists Series Gilles Chalandon, Episode 2 Gilles André Chalandon (b. 1956, Le Vigan, France) is a painter and swimmer. At 11 years old his godmother gave him a choice between a camera or a radio for a gift; he chose the camera. Since then he has been interested in the realism and exactness that photographic technology offers. Gilles has always been pulled away from pursuing art, by swimming, work, and traveling, but in times of transition, like his move from his small town in the south of France to Paris, his later move to New York, the birth of his daughter, and January 2016, with the death of David Bowie, he would find himself diving back into illustrating and painting. Space776 is an international contemporary art gallery with spaces in New York and Seoul.

New York, NY- Space 776 is pleased to present Swim This Way, an exhibition of new portraits by Gilles André Chalandon, curated by Younghye Whang, on view from September 11th through September 26th at 37-39 Clinton Street in the Lower East Side. Opening Reception: Friday, September 11, 6-8 pm "Last year in July, I flew to Dover, the UK with Jasmin and Jozef to crew for our friend Brad during his second swim across the English Channel. Excited by the anticipation of Brad’s endeavor I took this opportunity to work on live portraits." - Gilles André Chalandon His approach is to execute quick sketches on a drawing pad, “snapping the shot” – as he would with a camera – when he liked the image. The best times were moments of movement and tension, like when he and his friends all had to get ready to leave the Dover Bed & Breakfast, or at the rocky harbor beach before a practice swims in the cold water. The paintings are on paper, finished with watercolor, India ink, and water-based acrylic markers. With no formal art education, except time spent with his painter uncle, he draws inspiration from his travels to Japan, Australia, and the Philippine Islands, working for interior designers in his professional life, being an open water swimmer, and the simplicity of Keith Haring’s work, which he first saw riding the number 6, NYC subway line in the fall of 1984. *Visitors must keep masks on at all times and max. 4 visitors in the space at once. Hours: Tuesday - Sunday, 12 pm - 6 pm Space776 is an international contemporary art gallery with spaces in New York and Seoul. For inquiries, please contact at i​nfo@space776.com

Bai Mengfan: Almost a Love Story August 7 - September 9, 2020 Opening Reception: August 7, Friday, 6-9 pm New York, NY​- Space 776 is pleased to present ​Almost a Love Story​, an exhibition of new paintings by Bai Mengfan, on view from August 7th through September 9th at 37-39 Clinton Street in the Lower East Side. The exhibition takes its name in part from the 1996 Hong Kong film, ​Comrades: Almost a Love Story​, which tracks the peregrinations of two intertwined lives across Mainland China, Hong Kong, and New York. Mirroring her own experience of the same journey, Mengfan’s paintings are memories, fragmentary, and deconstructed evocations of vast, sometimes impersonal cityscapes. Walls in Beijing, street markings in Hong Kong, and bike lane symbols in New York when juxtaposed together recall Foucault’s concept of the heterotopia, ambiguous and real contestations of the space in which her art lives. The landscapes triangulate like lovers around the artist who watches their allegiances shift and crater. Yet even amid, or perhaps in spite of, a crisis of depersonalization, the denizens of these cities anchor themselves in the deep waters of the spirit with talismans and divinities. Whether in the form of a mural depicting a conventional deity or a Pikachu decoration placed on a taxi dashboard like an effigy on an altar, Mengfan draws from liminal architecture human artifacts that make them a love story, almost. Bai Mengfan (b.1994, China) received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York, and her BFA in Oil Painting from Sichuan Conservatory of Music, Chengdu, China. Her works have been shown widely in the U.S. and China, including PULSE Art Fair Miami, Boers-Li Gallery, Java Project, Booth Gallery, Plus81 Gallery, Carriage Trade Gallery, SVA Chelsea Gallery, Chengdu Art Academy, White Night Gallery. Mengfan lives and works in New York. *Visitors must keep masks on at all times and max. 4 visitors in the space at once. Hours: Tuesday - Sunday, 12 pm - 6 pm Space776 is an international contemporary art gallery with spaces in New York and Seoul. For inquiries, please contact at info@space776.com

Space776 is pleased to present Midnight Tour, an exhibition of new work by Shuto Okayasu, on view from July 10 through August 5 at 37-39 Clinton St in the Lower East Side, a new space of Space776. This is Okayasu’s second solo exhibition at Space776. Shuto Okayasu (b.1990, Saitama, Japan) is a painter, photographer, and illustrator. He studied Graphic Design at Tokyo Zokei University. Since he moved to New York in 2015, Okayasu has been bouncing off between photo-realistic and surrealistic images which incorporates stylistic elements of Japanese painting and cartoons. Heavily influenced by cut and paste and sampling of Hip Hop culture, he patchworks his perception of everyday life which navigates viewers into a realistic dreamy world. Space776 is an international contemporary art gallery with spaces in New York and Seoul. Hours: Tuesday - Sunday, 12 pm - 6 pm For inquiries, please contact at info@space776.com www.space776.com https://www.instagram.com/space_776/

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