MID-EXHIBITION
Last Thursday night, the room was full.
The opening reception for In the Heat of Becoming drew more people than we've ever had through that door — and they stayed. They moved slowly. They stood in front of things for a long time.
We are now in the middle of the exhibition, and the work is doing what good work does: it keeps changing as you spend time with it. If you've been, you already know. If you haven't, there are less than three weeks left.
Marieken Cochius
Welded Drawing #24, 2023
Welded Steel on Custom Wall Bracket · 51 × 46 in.
$7,600
Marieken Cochius builds her sculpture the way a draftsperson builds a line — except her line is steel, and it holds its weight in the air. Welded Drawing #24 erupts from the wall in a tangle of blackened marks that somehow cohere into something both botanical and industrial, controlled and wild. Up close, you can see where each weld was made. The hand is entirely visible.
Elizabeth Johnson
Grievous Smoke, 2025
Oil on Canvas · 18 × 14 in.
$1,200
Small paintings can be the most demanding. Johnson's Grievous Smoke is 18 by 14 inches and takes up an outsized amount of psychic space. The landscape — if that's what it is — seems to be dissolving at its edges, the color pushing outward past any boundary the canvas might offer. It's a painting that knows exactly how much grief can be held inside a single, modest frame.
Marina Christy
Cave, 2024
Pigment Powder, Charcoal on Canvas · 36 × 24 in.
$6,000
Christy works with pigment powder and charcoal — materials that record the lightest touch and refuse to be corrected. Cave opens like a throat, like a passage through something ancient. Dark at its center and luminous at its rim, it reads less like a depiction of a cave than like the experience of being inside one: the pressure of enclosure and, somewhere beyond it, the suggestion of light.
Betsy Jacks
Apple Tree 18 (Daphne, Back), 2026
Acrylic on Canvas · 30 × 24 in.
$1,100
Jacks shows a figure from behind — arms thrown open, something flowering from her back, mid-metamorphosis into the tree she has always been becoming. The myth of Daphne, re-rendered without the god who chased her: just the woman, the change, the relief of it.
UPCOMING
Collector's Salon
Thursday, April 2 · 6–9 PM · Collective Z, 325 Broome Street, 1W
Before the exhibition closes, we are hosting a small salon for collectors and close supporters of the gallery — an opportunity to be with the work in a quieter, more unhurried way than any opening allows, and meet the artists if you haven’t already.
The evening will be intimate: a small and curated group, the full show, wine, and time to talk. I'll be there to discuss individual works, the artists behind them, and the thinking that shaped this exhibition.
Attendance is by invitation. If you'd like to be considered, use the button below to request a place. I'll follow up personally.
In the Heat of Becoming is on view through April 11.
Gallery hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 1–6 PM. By appointment outside those hours — write to [email protected].
— Alex Z. Wang