February 15 – March 20, 2025
Winter, 2025 : Presenting new works of sculpture and painting by New York-based artists Christina van der Merwe & Ben K. Voss.
City
The ancient forest
pushes into the city,
but the forest
is in the sea.
There are arrows in the air,
and warriors lost
in the branches
of coral.
Over the new houses
a grove of holm oaks is stirring
and the sky
has enormous crystal curves
—Federico García Lorca
Ben K. Voss, Olga, pencil, sand, collage, and water-based paint with fiber ground oncanvas, 12 × 16 inches, 2024
Ben K. Voss, Tri, pencil, sand, and water-based paint with fiber ground on canvas, 12 x16 inches, 2024
Ben K. Voss, Ryder, pencil, and water-based paint with fiber ground on canvas, 12 × 16 inches, 2024
Ben K. Voss, Won, water-based paint with fiber ground on canvas, 12 × 16 inches, 2024
Christina van der Merwe, Stone II, soapstone, 9 × 10 × 4 inches, 2024
Christina van der Merwe, Letter XVIII, bronze, 7 × 7 in, 2024
Letter VII, bronze, 2.25 × 2.5 in, 2024
Letter XXVI, bronze, 3.5 × 4 in, 2024
Letter XXII, bronze, 2 × 2.25 in, 2024
Letter V, bronze, 2 × 3 in, 2024
Letter VIII, bronze, 1 × 2 in, 2024
Letter XIX, bronze, 1 × 2.5 in, 2024
View all XXVIII Letters
Outside view :
Christina van der Merwe (b. 1984, Pretoria, South Africa, lives and works in New York, NY) Solo and two-person exhibitions include Untuning the Sky, Clark Island, Maine (2022); Calendar, Maake Projects, State College, PA (2021); Painting on a Porch, 57w57 Arts, Wilton, CT (2020). Group exhibitions include Jung Lovers, Soloway, Brooklyn, NY (2022); Behind the Times, Chapter 5, online, (2020); Biophilia, Unpaved Gallery, Yucca Valley, CA (2019). Her work has been published in ArtMaze, Issue 16, curated by Scott Ogden, Shrine, NYC.
Ben K. Voss (b. 1980, Sinking Spring, PA, lives and works in New York, NY) received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and is currently a MFA candidate at Hunter College (New York). Solo and two-person exhibitions include Ben K. Voss: Springs, Sperling (Office), Munich, Germany (2024); Ripple, Karissa Kendricks & Ben K. Voss, Rumpelstiltskin, New York, NY (2024); Meeting, Al Svoboda & Ben K. Voss, Weatherproof, Chicago, IL (2023); Community, Left Field Gallery, Los Osos, CA (2022); Rosetta, Gazebo, Brooklyn, NY (2019); Paintings, 57W57 Arts, New York, NY, (2018). Recent publications include Springs published by Mark Pezinger, (Vienna) and Imprints with Midge Wattles published by Chateau International (London).