“Because we are going through a pandemic people became very sensitive to the distances. Distances between each other distances between yourself and the objects or distances between yourself and the environment. Probably the most common term we hear every day is the social distance, and I felt that this term is very cold and very isolating but for me making artwork is not like that it’s a very private and intimate experience. Experiencing Art also can be very private and intimate, so I hope that viewers when they see the artwork, see the process of such intimacy or the warmth of the art, I hope that this gives some sort of comfort for people to get through this tough time.” - Jaena Kwon Constellation - The Hidden Dimension on view through November 18, 2020 37-39 Clinton Street in the Lower East Side. Tuesday – Sunday, 12-6 pm - 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 - #artistinterview #jaenakwon #space776filmproduction #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/

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