A room, an acoustic guitar, and the paintings — the gallery will hold a different kind of quiet this Thursday.
On Thursday evening, James Fox — songwriter and guitarist of the New York rock project SpaceMachine — will perform an acoustic set inside Bill Burns’ exhibition, stripping the band’s electric language down to strings, art, and the room itself.
Fox’s SpaceMachine work leans into density and distortion; the acoustic setting takes that same writing and lets the air back in. Melody, phrasing, and the small decisions between notes become audible again — a counterpart, in sound, to the way Burns’ canvases ask to be read at close range
We chose this pairing because the paintings and the songs share a family resemblance: both are made by accumulation; both reach for a kind of luminosity that has to be earned slowly. The works do not preach; they breathe. Neither do the songs — played this way, they sit with you.
An Acoustic Evening with James Fox
Thursday, 23 April 2026 · 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Collective Z · 325 Broome Street, New York
Wine will be poured. Spots are limited.
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Bill Burns: Between Structure and Spirit
On view 15 April – 2 May 2026
325 Broome Street, 1W, New York, NY
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