Elise Wagner: Event Horizons

In monotypes and paintings such as Cartography Study III, Collision Transits and Spacetime Compass, Elise Wagner frames imagery of black holes in antiquarian contexts. The pieces’ edges resemble parchment paper and illuminated manuscripts: irregularly scalloped and silver-edged, like alchemical formulas unearthed from a hidden chamber in some medieval monastery. The effect is heightened by the runelike characters with which Wagner surrounds imagery of nebular clouds being sucked into black holes’ event horizons, never to escape. Through Sept. 29.

 

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