Opening reception Saturday, January 10, 6–8 pm

Corresponding to the letters of the Roman alphabet, the twenty-six drawings by Henni Alftan in ABC depict common objects floating against monochromatic grounds. Each composition contains an object or array of items whose English names begin with the titular letter—A (all works 2025) is for aspirin and ants, B is for Band-Aids, buttons, and buckles, and so on. The artist chose only objects small enough, in reality, to fit within the bounds of her approximately ten-by-eight-inch sheets of paper. Working with these constraints, Alftan’s visual alphabet engages questions of illusory and pictorial space, classification and hierarchy, and the relationship between image and language.

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