Altman Siegel is proud to present highlights from two current exhibitions currently on view at the gallery. We can decide, is a solo exhibition of brand new works by Zarouhie Abdalian and Cascadence is a group exhibition featuring the work of, amongst others, Terry Adkins and Brandon Ndife.

Throughout We can decide, a state of suspension pervades the space of the gallery and threnody for the unwilling martyrs is its emblem. Set just slightly in motion, five brass signaling bells sound out their indeterminate status, both and alternately signifying and hailing, marking and calling, meaning and doing. In recognition of the mass murder Abdalian asks us to lay at the feet of the U.S. government, it may be read as a memorial and an incitation.

Emerging during the mid-80’s in his native Washington D.C., Terry Adkins’ interdisciplinary history and use of reduced, abstracted forms complicate the impulse to settle on a singular, deterministic view of his artistic outcomes. His poetic reframing of found objects as ‘potential disclosures’ proposes a revaluing of objects as storied throughways of information. Viewed in the gallery is Tambour (2013), a presence rendering sound as silent. Hear, a witness of gravity’s impulse.

Described as a non-position between decay and regrowth, New Jersey-based artist Brandon Ndife’s sculptural works address the subjective nature of lived experience through detritus and symbolism. Activating commonplace, found, and inherited materials to question the limits and possible lives of objects, Ndife recasts living forms. Concerning entropy, both Nantucket and Nightshade Sidetable (both 2021) propose an oscillation between an aesthetic of evacuation and a process of becoming.