Timed to coincide with his participation in the Brooklyn Museum’s show of work by Dutch designer Iris van Herpen and a supporting cast of 20+ additional artists and designers, David Spriggs’ solo exhibition at Tribeca’s Arsenal Gallery stands out for its simultaneously ephemeral and solid presence. Here, in a piece that’s part of Spriggs’ ‘Vision Series,’ he arranges layers of painted Plexiglas to create the effect of an iris, the many segments even suggesting the layered structure of the eye’s cornea, iris and lens. Inspired by Russian and Polish Constructivism (artist Katarzyna Kobra in particular), Spriggs explains that he wants to “define space without filling it.” (On view in Tribeca through Aug 22nd).
