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Jesse Small “Empty Objects” at Nancy Hoffman Gallery March 15 - April 14, 2018

From March 15 to April 14 an exhibition of Jesse Small’s new work opens at Nancy Hoffman Gallery, including steel screens, chandeliers, tables, mirrors and other small objects. The new work reveals the artist’s commitment to ornamentation, presenting everyday objects as artifacts of a Magical Realist narrative.

“Empty Objects” refers to things that are ghosts of themselves. Taken over and immobilized by ornamentation that is pleasant but unfamiliar, it goes into the depths of that emptiness and concludes that it is …