Alice Hope: Monoprints and Sculpture

The Drawing Room is pleased to present the gallery’s first exhibition with Alice Hope, an artist who divides her time between studios in Brooklyn and East Hampton. On view through October 1, the show features a selection of recent works on paper created in collaboration with two master printers in Brooklyn. Two sculptures are also on view. A separate press release is available for the concurrent exhibition, Landscape & Still Life: Jane Freilicher, Saul Steinberg, Albert York.

Named New York’s “Woman to Watch” in 2018 by the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Hope is widely recognized for the public and privately commissioned installations that are central to her practice. This exhibition introduces the artist’s monoprints, which capture on paper the compelling three-dimensional presence and tactility of her monumental work. Accompanying the works on paper is an ethereal sculpture that cascades from the wall, a flexible grid of reflected light and delicate shadows. At the core of the Hope’s approach to developing all new bodies of work is her choice of materials with embedded cultural references and relevance. Over the past decade the can tab has been the most salient element, and she has sourced hundreds of thousands in varied metallic hues. From dense coils of tightly threaded tabs mounted on the wall to curtain-like armatures suspended from the ceiling, her intricately engineered structures range dramatically in effect.

 See below for full press release and selected works.