Amorce – Paper, Index, Trace
November 14 – December 12, 2025
Anna Barriball, Bailey Connolly, Fernando Polidura, José Vera Matose, Katz Tepper, Manuel Pidal, Michael Kennedy Costa, Michelle Saenz Burrola, Mo Costello, My-Lan Hoang-Thuy, Polina Osipova, Roberto Barbosa, Uri Aran
“I pollute my environment with traceˮ - Uri Aran
Rosalind Krauss, in Notes on the Index 1977, distinguishes the index from other kinds of signs. Unlike the symbol, which is arbitrary, or the icon, which operates through resemblance, the index emerges through contact. It is the footprint pressed into sand, the shadow falling across a wall, the bruise or stain. Indexes are “marks or traces of a particular cause, and that cause is the thing to which they refer.ˮ They are not depictions of something absent, but physical consequences of presence.
This exhibition extends Kraussʼs insight to works on paper. Paper is approached not as a neutral support but as an indexical surface, closer to a sandbank or photographic plate. Every inscription—graphite, ink, stain, fold, or pressure—testifies to contact, a gesture, an event. In this light, these traces are not only expressive or communicative, but also archival: they register the bodyʼs conditions of being in the world.
Amorce – Paper, Index, Trace unfolds an exploration of paper as surface of registration, the index as consequence of bodily presence, and the trace as its lingering residue. Paper, then, is less a passive support than a porous skin. Fibers receive dents and folds, becoming both surface and memory, where body, tool, and environment impress themselves in ways both deliberate and involuntary.
To look at these works is to encounter more than form: they are thresholds where presence is recorded and transformed, where the ephemeral endures as memory, impression, and touch. The weight of a hand, the rhythm of breath, the pause of attention—each leaves its mark. Works on paper mirror this condition, gathering traces that reveal not only intention but also what exceeds control.
Uri Aran, Untitled (Daydream), 2025, Courtesy of Matthew Brown
Select Works
Michael Kennedy Costa
Building Five, 2025
Colored pencil, graphite, and clear tape on paper
21.6 x 27.9 cm
8.5 in. x 11 in.
Michael Kennedy Costa
Passage (4), 2021
Colored pencil and graphite on taped paper
50.8 x 69.2 cm
20 in. x 27.25 in.
Michael Kennedy Costa
Passage (3), 2021
Colored pencil and graphite on taped paper
50.8 x 69.2 cm
20 in. x 27.25 in.
Bailey Connolly
Untitled, 2024
Pencil on paper
50.17 x 67.95 cm
17 in. x 21.75 in.
My-Lan Hoang-Thuy
Untitled, 2025
Oil pastel, ink and watercolor on paper
42 x 30 cm
16.5 in. x 12 in.
Bailey Connolly
Ox, 2021
Cardstock, enamel paint, tape, marker and pencil
69.2 x 68.58 cm
27.25 in. x 27 in.
Polina Osipova
I told my whole life to a cow, 2025
Application on Japanese washi paper, self portrait, linen, pencil
22 x 33 cm
8.86 in. x 12.99 in.
Mo Costello
Untitled (Guardian Angel), 2020
Charcoal on found paper
15.24 x 10.16 cm
6 in. x 4 in.
Mo Costello
Untitled (130 1/2), 2020
Charcoal on found paper
26.67 x 20.32 cm
10.5 in. x 8 in.
Roberto Barsosa
Lily Azteca, 2022
Pencil on paper
26.5 x 34 x 2.5 cm
10.43 in. x 13.38 in. x 0.98 in.
Roberto Barsosa
Duo Lilies, 2024
Charcoal on paper
77 x 57 cm
30.31 in. x 22.44 in.
Uri Aran
Untitled (Daydream), 2025
Oil pastel, graphite, color pencil on paper
76.2 x 55.9 cm
30 in. x 22 in.
Uri Aran
Masterclass, 2024-2025
Acrylic, oil pastel, graphite, color pencil and mixed media on paper
40.6 x 29.5 cm
16 in. x 11 ⅝ in.
José Vera Matos
Palabras ≠ flecha, 2025
Fountain pen and graphite on cotton paper
80 x 60 x 4 cm
31.4 in. x 23.6 in. x 2 in.
Michelle Saenz Burrola
Exprime un cachito, 2023
Charcoal on paper
22.9 x 30 cm
9 in. x 11.8 in.
Installation Views
Anna Barriball (b. 1972, Plymouth, England) is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York, NY. Barriball earned her MFA at the Chelsea College of Art, London, in 2000. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Anna Barriball New Drawings’, Frith Street Gallery, London (2024), and ‘Anna Barriball and Dirk Braeckman’, KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2020). Selected group shows include the Drawing Biennial 2024, Drawing Rooms, London, and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, UK (2024).
Bailey Connolly (b. 1993, Santa Ana, CA) is a drawing-based artist living in Los Angeles, CA. She earned her MFA in Sculpture from Yale University in 2023. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘cock-a-doodle-doo’, Baader-Meinhof, Omaha (2024). Selected group shows include ‘Bailey Connolly & Isabelle Frances McGuire’ Scherben, Berlin (2022), and Dresses Without Women, Mickey, Chicago (2021).
Fernando Polidura (b. 1989, Mexico City, MX) is an installation artist living in Mexico City, MX. He recently attended the Casa Wabi Residency (2024) and the Avan.dev Residency (2022) in Mexico City. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘PREOMNOR’, CROMA, Mexico City (2025) and ‘Conscious Admission’, Galería Dix9 (within MATERIAL), Mexico City (2025). Selected group shows include ‘Gran Salón’, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan (2024), and ‘Bistro Im Bistro’, Bistro 21, Leipzig (2024).
José Vera Matos (b. 1981, Lima, Peru) is a drawing and sculpture-based artist living in Lima, Peru. Martos studied at La Escuela Nacional Superior Autónoma de Bellas Artes del Perú, Lima (2000-2003). Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Una ambigüedad irresuelta’,MALI-Museo de Arte de Lima (2021) and ‘Poetics of Relation’, Nordenhake Gallery, Stockholm, (2021). Selected group shows include ‘Les Citoyens’, curated by Guillermo Kuitca, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris (2021), and at the Milan Triennial, Italy (2021).
Katz Tepper (b. 1987, Florida, U.S.A.) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago, IL. Tepper earned their MFA in Sculpture from Bard College, NY, in 2021 and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2022. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘♫ War is Everywhere ♫ a collaborat-’, Liste Solo booth with Laurel Gitlen, Basel, Switzerland (2023), and ‘Roasted Cockroach for Scale’, Laurel Gitlen, New York, NY (2023). Selected group shows include the White Columns 2024 Benefit Exhibition, White Columns, New York, NY (2024), and ‘Whole Grain: Experiments in Film & Video’ curated by Jon Davies, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY (2024).
Manuel Pidal
Michael Kennedy Costa (b. 1982, Northampton, U.S.A.) is a drawing-based artist living in Los Angeles, CA. He earned his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2011. Recent solo exhibitions include, Selected group shows include
Michelle Saenz Burrola
Mo Costello (b. 1989, Seattle, WA) is an artist and educator based in Athens, GA. Costello earned his MFA at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, in 2014 and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2022. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Five Drawings’, april april Gallery, Pittsburgh (2025), and ‘Forming sounds with my mouth to approximate something that’s like a flood’, Atlanta Center for Photography, Atlanta (2025). Selected group shows include a group presentation with april april Gallery at NADA Art Fair, New York (2024) and ‘A Long Slant of Light’ (with Ian Lewandowski), curated by June T. Sanders (2023).
My-Lan Hoang-Thuy (b. 1990, Bourg-la-Reine, France) is a print-making and painting artist based in Paris, FR. Hoang-Thuy studied at l'École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2018. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Notes’, Galerie Mitterrand, Paris (2024) and Librairie Yvon
Polina Osipova (b. 1998, Russia) is a sculptor, wearable art, and photography-based artist, living in St Petersburg, Russia. The artist had her first solo exhibition, ‘Digital Mythology’, at the Hoxton Gallery in 2021, as the winner of the Cothinkers Annual Prize. Selected group exhibitions include "The Dream", International photography festival PhEst, Monopoli, Italy (2024); "Remembrance of Things Future", Performance, Sarah Kravitz Gallery, London, UK (2024), and “ArtlLab Eyeland”, International photography festival PhEst, Taranto, Italy (2023).
Roberto Barbosa (b. 1990, Guadalajara, Mexico) is a drawing and sculpture-based artist, living between Frankfurt, Germany, and Rotterdam, Netherlands. Barbosa studied architecture at Städelschule, Frankfurt (2016-2019). Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Estatuas de Sal’, Espacio Cultural Bellas Hartas, Mexico City, Mexico (2025) and ‘Lilis’, rretiemble, Tabacalera, Mexico City (2025). Selected group shows include the ‘Blütenlese’, Paper Positions, Vienna, Austria, Upcoming (2025), and ‘bouquet’, Galerie 3AP, Düsseldorf (2025).
Uri Aran (American, b. 1977, Jerusalem) is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York, NY. Aran earned his MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University in New York in 2004. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘House’, Matthew Brown Gallery, Los Angeles (2024); ‘zero point everything’, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK (2024,) and ‘I’m a Restaurant’, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York (2023). Selected group shows include ‘The Compression’, Matthew Brown Gallery, New York, (2025) and ‘R U Still Painting???’, Falcon, New York, (2025).
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