Something reassuringly hopeless
Featuring Sam Bornstein and Gianna Dispenza
Exhibition duration subject to circumstances.
Open by appointment.
It’s hard to imagine
that we wouldn’t drink in our surroundings more fully
if we couldn’t sit and recollect
that collection of moments
a moment later.
But the flaws of memory!
There’s something reassuringly hopeless about the way
it falls apart
and makes the impossible manifest.
In their gracefully blurred subtlety, Gianna Dispenza’s drawings speak in a standard language of memory; details worn off for efficient long term storage, an essence remaining if not the essence. Sam Bornstein’s images also utilize this aesthetic but they go further into a space of near disbelief, touching the moment of “Did it happen that way or was I imagining that?” which often accompanies our attempts to rest events from deep storage. Both artists render these effects in paintings as well but the scale and finish of works on paper lends them a fugitive quality that more fully anchors them to the past-tense. We’d love for you to see the show. Here’s hoping.
Sam Bornstein was born and raised in Downtown New York City, where he has lived from 1983 until the present. His education includes an MFA from Hunter College, and a BFA from Bard College. Recent solo presentations of his work include Daydream Workshop at Charles Moffett Gallery, and a solo presentation at Untitled San Francisco. Recent exhibitions including his work have taken place in Denmark, Sweden, Croatia, Germany, and France.
Gianna Dispenza was born in Washington State in 1990, and moved between various American states, as well as Mexico, Switzerland, Italy, Lebanon and the United Kingdom. She is currently based in London, pursuing her MA at the Royal College of Art. Her paintings, sculptures and drawings are housed in collections internationally and she has exhibited across the United States, France, Italy, Lebanon, South Korea, and Great Britain.
