top of page
FILM

LATEST

Lynn Basa's solo show in New York: In the Aggregate
01:33

Lynn Basa's solo show in New York: In the Aggregate

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​

ARTIST DOCUSERIES

Gilles Chalandon Episode1
05:34

Gilles Chalandon Episode1

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

ARTIST INTERVIEWS

Andy H. Jung: Life and Karma
01:01

Andy H. Jung: Life and Karma

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/

ART FILMS

EXHIBITIONS

HOLY FAME!  Dec. 15, 2023 - Jan. 12, 2024
06:29

HOLY FAME! Dec. 15, 2023 - Jan. 12, 2024

Featured artists: Dave Alexander, Dasha Bazanova, Miriam Carothers, Elena Chestnykh, Emilia Durka, Rafael Fuchs, Sarah Fuhrman, Pat Jackson, Ambre Kelly+ Andrew Gori, Morgan Jesse Lappin, Liz-N-Val, Frank Olt + Andy Warhol, James Prez, Yusuke Ochiai, Marcus Glitteris, Jeffrey Allen Price. Space 776 is excited to present HOLY FAME - a group exhibition that delves into the intricate and often paradoxical relation between devotion, celebrity, and society. The concept of the HOLY isn't exclusively tied to spiritual or religious devotions. There are numerous secular constructs that we might consider as HOLY in the metaphorical sense; our environment, our rights as human beings, our education, the Arts and our culture, our society’s scientific progress, community, and collective ideals such as justice, equality, and freedom. There will always be mysteries that will keep us unfulfilled, but accepting what we don’t know perhaps frees us to aim at and find that which is true. There are ideas worthy of devotion and those that are not. Our artists, in this exhibit, examine these choices. In an era where FAME and celebrity hold an unprecedented sway over our collective imagination, this exhibition invites the viewer to contemplate the blurred boundaries between the secular and the sacred, our fanaticism and fascination with the famous, and the impact of these fractured devotions on our spiritual and societal values. As the internet divides the larger population (with fewer news sources) into smaller clans with opposing world views what does it take to rise above the division and an idea be galvanized by a whole society not just as spectacle, but also for some good? Because, unfortunately, we humans don’t just find the “good” fascinating, we also seem to elevate the darker sides of humanity. HOLY FAME is a reflection of these two ideals, sometimes in harmony and other times in conflict… 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
KILN GODS
03:02

KILN GODS

Group ceramic exhibition featuring Dave Alexander, Dasha Bazanova, Dasha Ziborova, Wendy Foster, Frank Olt, Susan Carr, Beth Dary, Jackie Shatz, Kiichi Takeuchi, Dan Christoffel, DeepPond Kim, Takashi Horisaki, Keisha Prioleau-Martin, Jeff Gomez, Peter Goldwater, Joan Digby. Kiln Gods—that’s what potters call mythological guardians that supposedly bring good luck to kiln firings, it is small ceramic figures fashioned and placed on top of a kiln. From Homer's Epigram's fragment 14: "Potters, if you give me a reward, I will sing for you. Come, then, Athena [goddess of pottery], with hand upraised over the kiln. Let the pots and all the dishes turn out well and be well fired: let them fetch good prices and be sold in plenty in the market. Grant that the potters may get great gain and grant me to sing to them. But if you turn shameless and make false promises, then I call together the destroyers of kilns…” Also, in many religions, gods create a human out of clay, or a human being is compared to pottery: In the Qurʾānic version of the story of Adam and Eve (related largely in surahs 2, 7, 15, 17, and 20), Allah (God) created Adam from clay but exalted him with such knowledge that the angels were commanded to prostrate themselves before him. From the Bible (James 4:14) Jars of clay are just like our earthly bodies in the sense that they are temporary holding places for treasure. Kiln Gods exhibition explores each artist as a god and protector of their creations, the various worlds they’re building, where clay becomes the vehicle for expression, from traditional busts by Dan Christoffel to strange shapes, scanned and 3-D clay printed by computer scientist Kiichi Takeuchi, and Susan Carr’s wood house with a ceramic vagina shoe painted in oil, the viewer gets an opportunity to enter that world. The period of time we spend on “God's potter's wheel” is our growth. The process of being “fired” in the kiln is what God, creator of the world, like an artist might use to bring their work to a hardened maturity. 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
STUDIO KYSH— : Architecture of Insecurity.
01:12

STUDIO KYSH— : Architecture of Insecurity.

New York, NY - Space 776 is pleased to present Architecture of Insecurity, an exhibition that finds beauty in the physicality and practicality of spaces by STUDIO KYSH— a collaborative architecture endeavor based in New York City. On view June 17 - 30, 2021. During its rapid growth in the late 1800s, New York City formed most of its current modern city fabric. As a city of immigrants with its own cultural insecurity, New York borrowed the architectural style of its diverse ancestral European roots in an attempt to create a historic urban context. This European influence, combined with the advancing construction technology / socioeconomic factors of the time, forged a unique architectural environment. Architectural elements of different origins, whether ornamental or functional, were melded together into idiosyncratic yet cohesive New York buildings. The Insecurity of the new city became the drive to develop a new identity. STUDIO KYSH— is an architectural design studio based in New York City. Since its inception in 2018, the studio has been investigating the urban conditions of its immigrant home, New York City. The complex urban landscape of New York City is a source of inspiration to inform their dialect of architecture. * This exhibition is funded by KAIA (Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement), an affiliate of the Korean Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. *All survey drawings are contributed by the students of the Hongik University School of Architecture during their participation in the Architecture of Insecurity drawing workshop led by STUDIO KYSH—. 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​
bottom of page