Metamorphosis Ball 2024

Braxton Garneau

Metamorphosis Ball

September 3 – October 26, 2024

Efraín López

356 Broadway, Unit LL15

New York, NY 10013

Efraín López is pleased to announce Metamorphosis Ball, an exhibition of new works by visual artist, Braxton Garneau. The exhibition will be on view from September 3 through October 12, 2024. For his first solo exhibition at the gallery, Garneau will present a new series of paintings, continuing his exploration of materiality and costuming. For this body of work, Garneau has employed the use of arched canvases to create portals that collapse cultural and historical elements into complex portraits of armor and adornment. Garneau’s interest in materiality is specifically drawn out in the lace details of these works, made from hand processed shells piped into imagined lace patterns. Integrating three-dimensional costuming elements with gestural asphalt forms, Garneau is interested in both self-adornment and thinking about masquerade as a disruptive tool for social change.

Metamorphosis Ball is accompanied by an essay authored by Hilary Davidson, a dress, textiles and fashion historian and curator, and chair of the MA Fashion and Textile Studies at the School of Graduate Studies at FIT.

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ARTFORUM MUST SEE

Masquerade (Imago), 2024
Asphalt and acrylic on canvas with raffia, goat skin and crushed shell

74 x 48 inches

Photo by Blaine Campbell

Masquerade (Matador), 2024
Asphalt and acrylic on canvas with raffia and crushed shell

72 x 30 inches

Photo by Blaine Campbell

Masquerade (Aranea), 2024
Asphalt and acrylic on canvas with raffia, jute and crushed shell

72 x 30 inches

Photo by Blaine Campbell

Masquerade (Harlequin White), 2024
Asphalt and acrylic on canvas with raffia and crushed shell

52 x 38 inches

Photo by Blaine Campbell

Masquerade (Harlequin Black), 2024
Asphalt and acrylic on canvas with raffia and crushed shell

52 x 38 inches

Photo by Blaine Campbell

Masquerade V, 2024
Asphalt and acrylic on canvas with jute and crushed shell

15 x 10 inches

Photo by Inna Svyatsky

Masquerade III, 2024
Asphalt and acrylic on canvas with jute and crushed shell

15 x 10 inches

Photo by Inna Svyatsky

Masquerade IV, 2024
Asphalt and acrylic on linen with raffia and crushed shell

15 x 10 inches

Photo by Inna Svyatsky

Masquerade II, 2024
Asphalt and acrylic on canvas with raffia

15 x 10 inches

Photo by Inna Svyatsky

Masquerade I, 2024
Asphalt and acrylic on canvas with raffia and crushed shell

15 x 10 inches

Photo by Inna Svyatsky

Braxton Garneau

METAMORPHOSIS BALL, EFRAÍN LÓPEZ, NEW YORK,NY, SEPTEMBER 3 – OCTOBER 26, 2024

Thank you for the support of

Braxton Garneau

METAMORPHOSIS BALL, EFRAÍN LÓPEZ, NEW YORK,NY, SEPTEMBER 3 – OCTOBER 26, 2024

Thank you for the support of

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