On Show: November 14–December 5

Opening Reception with the Artist
Saturday, November 14, 5–9 PM

Ryan Graff Contemporary presents Somnia, the debut solo exhibition from Larisa Brechun. Please join us for the opening reception with the artist on Saturday, November 14, from 5–9 PM.

In conjunction with this exhibition, we are excited to release a show catalogue and a print; both will be available at the opening and online.

In Somnia, artist Larisa Brechun lays bare the quiet privacy of the dreaming mind and the fugitive debris of memory, myth, and imagination as it freely floats in the liminal cocoon of sleep, coalescing into mysterious forms that defy daylight logic. Under her gentle hand, soft animal bodies take shape alongside evaporating cosmic beings and primordial symbols of wilderness, all adrift in the penumbra of the dreaming state, suspended in etheric margins between the deep woodland dark and the flirting light of a winking moon.

Brechun’s paintings reveal only as much as they desire to be perceived in their tender in-betweenness, a simultaneous urge to hide and to illuminate.