CAPSULE | 56 HENRY | NEW YORK, NY

MAY 5 – JUNE 12, 2016
56 Henry Street | Ground Floor, Unit W | New York, NY 10002
gallery: (646) 858-0800 | cell: (518) 966-2622 | email: info@56henry.nyc

56 Henry is thrilled to present Capsule, an immersive installation, including the first bronze sculpture made by Ryan Wallace. A new monograph has been published by Land and Sea for the occasion.

Wallace’s output is a cycle of continuously constructed, razed, rebuilt, and re-flattened information. Like a tomb of fossils, the gallery is an optical vista of tiles that both support and trap the materials employed in his paintings and sculptures. All of his work evolves from both the act of making and those materials that have been cast off, removed, and redacted from previous works. Like a scavenger in an ecosystem, Wallace continually churns what is at hand in the studio, as the waste of one system becomes the structure of another. Originally employed as molds for concrete and plaster sculptures, the square tiles which encase the gallery have previously been included in floor installations, shattered and stuffed inside of other sculptures, and inlaid into painting surfaces. For the bronze work, Capsule, the five sides of a mold have been set aside, used to create a plaster investment, and burned out, destroyed to make way for molten bronze. This act brings a finality to their previous state of accumulation and reincarnation, leaving a marker of time which can no longer be broken open or unraveled.

Exhibitions at 56 HENRY are visible 24 hours a day. Gallery doors are open to the public on Thursdays through Sundays, 12:00 – 6:00 pm. For additional information, please contact Ellie Rines at (646) 858-0800 or info@56henry.nyc.