You are invited to raise a glass and enjoy the art, accompanied by a DJ set created by the artist.

Free admission

Taking It Apart is the first solo show in New York City by Ezekiel Honig. It includes works from 2014 to the present, exhibiting a range of directions he has taken over the past years.

Ezekiel Honig’s visual art is influenced by equal parts abstraction, minimalism, constructivism, the sounds of everyday life, and his background in instrumental music production. Using acrylic paint, encaustic, and a variety of everyday mediums (paper, cotton, cardboard, metal…) on wood and canvas, he is interested in tone and ambiguity, and how the arrangement of space or a seemingly tame image can elicit a visceral reaction. The angle of a line, the smudge of a color, the breaking down of a material - tiny movements that can open up large worlds of perception drive ideas and communication into an object.

Honig initially arrived at visual art through sound. The movement into painting and collage began as a means of visualizing music in a concrete and less replicable manner than an album cover. Rather than a direct translation, the relationship from sonic to visual is a loose feedback of influence - in both directions - maintaining a warm, textural mood, a certain rhythm, and in some instances attempting to use visual means to replicate musical patterns - looping, layering, or fragmentation. Distortion, or obscuring something in some way, is an effect that is similar between sound and visual - a means of adding shards of feeling by reducing clarity, exposing hidden details - driving an audiovisual thread.

Learn more about the exhibition Taking It Apart.