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COUNTY is pleased to present Comments on Cosmology, a solo exhibition by Zak Ové, featuring a selection of the British-Trinidadian artist’s celebrated fabric collage tondos made from vintage hand-knit doilies, along with a larger-than-life sculpture from his Invisible Man series.

Ové’s doily works, which he terms “granny psychedelia,” were inspired by the multicolored, hand-knit and hand-crocheted home décor that was a ubiquitous feature of the working-class West Indian neighborhoods of his youth. The artist was long fascinated by the shrine-like quality of doily-decorated rooms and how they …