New languages of rules and resonance
GROUP II
JUN 25 - JUL 26, 2025
COLLECT ARTWORKSExhibiting
HEFT Gallery 300 Broome LES June 25 to July 26
Groundwork is a survey of artists using procedural systems to develop new visual languages. Alongside the thematic provocation of our inaugural group show, Truth or, this exhibition establishes the foundation of Heft's program, presenting works by artists who use the tools of our time to reflect the complexity of a world in constant flux, while also revealing the universal connections that only art can make coherent.
The show brings together practices that experiment with process, material, and the encoded intelligence of systems – echoing legacies of conceptual and generative art. Artists from the 1960’s and ‘70’s like Sol LeWitt, Vera Molnar, and Harold Cohen laid the groundwork for the contemporary methods and inquiries exhibited in Groundwork, where form emerges from rules, code, or networks of systems.
From algorithmic plots and woven canvases to marble sculpture, ceramic vessels, Polaroids, and cast plaster – these works expand the physical possibilities of digital and systems-based practices, helping enrich the way such art is encountered, interpreted, and integrated into our lives.
Artists / Artworks
Zach Lieberman
Auriea Harvey
Nancy Burson
Rafaël Rozendaal
Rafaël Rozendaal
Aranda/Lasch
Iskra Velitchkova
William Mapan
Helena Sarin
Helena Sarin
Emily Xie
LoVid
Jan Robert Leegte
qubibi
Nicolas Sassoon
Shamus Clisset
Nat Sarkissian
Marcel Schwittlick
diewiththemostlikes
Sarp Kerem Yavuz
Under the Sultan’s Eye, Tarık
Thomas Noya
p1xelfool
Marcelo Soria-Rodriguez
Emily Edelman
Mike Balzer
Mike Balzer
Steve Pikelny
Steve Pikelny