303 Gallery’s summer group show ‘Seasonal Drift’ includes artwork by gallery artists that makes strange our notions of time and space. Simultaneous with her similarly themed solo exhibition at Pace Gallery, a few blocks to the north, Alicja Kwade’s contribution at 303, ‘Trial Turn’ from 2019, employs minimal materials – steel rings and bricks – to prompt us to consider our place in the universe. Typically elegant, the sculpture suggests oversized jewelry or the playfulness of hula hoops yet employs utilitarian (and ancient) building materials in a way that evokes gears or the functioning of machinery. Numbering 12, 24, 36 and 48 on the four rings, the bricks create a system like those we create to navigate and manage life. (On view through Aug 8th).
