What Falls, Hangs, Drips and Comes Undone

JO-HS is pleased to present What Falls, Hangs, Drips and Comes Undone, a group exhibition on view at JOHS NY from March 19th to May 1st 2026 bringing together a group of artists across various disciplines and mediums to explore the shifting conditions through which time makes itself visible in the invisible and visible tangible world.

In What Falls, Hangs, Drips and Comes Undone, surfaces become archives, inspiration becomes a living force that transcends time and space. Exhibited in a domestic setting, an apartment, the exhibition aims to portray a quiet sense of vulnerability while also suggesting persistence. The artists use abrasion, layering, oxidation and interventions as inscriptions of time. Time is revealed through material layering. In other cases, time is deteriorating through matter. We remember why we make things, the human presence these objects contain and why we have such a strong connection to objects. It is obvious in the works, the fact of the power, the affirmation and human presence in all of these things we make.

SELECTED WORKS

Across the exhibition, time is not simply represented but embodied. Surfaces appear pierced, scraped, layered, covered, burned, or oxidized, all material traces that reveal processes of endurance rather than rupture. Through acts of layering and accumulation, time becomes visible in the materials themselves, registering the passage of gestures, pressure, and transformation.

Materiality carries memory. What appears stable may soften; what seems fixed may slowly break apart. That endurance is not catastrophic, it is gradual. The slow undoing that produces a new meaning. Things are not what they seem. We look for meaning. We look for our reflection in eternity in the things that last because we know ultimately that we won't.

INSTALLATION VIEWS

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Ezra Cohen ︎︎︎
His paintings often unfold as immersive, almost mythological scenes where figures and forms emerge and dissolve within dense, layered surfaces. Drawing from religious narratives, art history, and metaphysical inquiry, Cohen constructs a visual language that oscillates between chaos and harmony, evoking a space where paradise and apocalypse coexist.

Bjorn Copeland ︎︎︎
Bjorn Copeland's artistic practice involves reclaiming discarded waste from contemporary consumer society to create collages, prints, sculptures, and drawings. His works reflect the influence of psychedelia and Pop art, sidestepping the role of the consumer in a material-saturated culture. Copeland's sculptures reorient viewers around the altered functions of component parts, suggesting the social potential of multifarious perspectives through a blend of violence and tenderness in his assemblages.

Oliver Clegg ︎︎︎
His practice reveals a dense web of ideas and critical concerns that are equally polyphonic and multivalent. One might even go as far as to say that they are growing, as his practice evolves, into something really rather profound – a complex, sometimes amusing and playful yet often sincere and heartfelt exploration of ontological and existential notions of objecthood and matter, images and signs, language and communication, thought and action, creation and being.


Isaiah Davis
Interested in materiality and form that expresses a sense of double consciousness and cultural dissonance, related to the systemic barriers of racial hierarchies and the emotional repression of culturally encoded male roles.


Jo Dennis ︎︎︎
Jo Dennis’ work is deeply rooted in lived experience, moving between the physical and a more subconscious, memorial dimension where images emerge. By incorporating everyday elements, her paintings remain grounded in material reality, while the marks on their surfaces act as traces of past events and reflections on absence. Built through intuitive layers of gesture on used military tent fabrics (chosen for their connection to the body) her work becomes a metaphor for the accumulation of sensations, emotions, and memories that shape how we experience the world.


Daniel Tyree Gaitor-Lomack ︎︎︎

American artist whose transdisciplinary practice
interrogates the intersection of personal identity, historical legacies, and societal structures. His work engages deeply with concepts of existence, memory, and collective experience.

Perla Krauze︎︎︎
She lives and works in Mexico City. Her work engages with time, memory, nature, and dualities. She is interested in materiality, the ephemeral and the permanent, archaeological collections and cabinets, relationships between objects, and, more recently, habitable sculptures and installations within space.

Lina McGinn ︎︎︎
Lina McGinn pushes this material and metaphoric mutability toward its limits. Sculptures, cast from cardboard boxes and dolled-up in various shades of high-gloss enamel, pose in states of torque across the gallery. They are leaned against corners, splayed across the floor, tacked on walls, and delicately balanced on their ow

Maria Naidich ︎︎︎
She engages with phenomena and materialities at the threshold between the natural and the artificial through the reconstruction of narratives grounded in material speculation and fiction, generating heterotopic spaces that draw from the historical, the personal, and the magical. She is currently developing research on the mutability of glass, fulgurites—crystallized lightning—and other geological glasses produced through technological impact.


Renata Del Riego 
Visual artist interested in the relationship between matter and text; thread and word; stone and memory. Her work focuses on what falls, hangs, drips, and comes undone over time. The weight of time. Her practice emerges from reflections on language as sculptural material, employing repetitive acts of fragmentation and reconstruction.

Ernesto Solana ︎︎︎ 
His practice explores the porous boundaries between culture and the  ́natural ́. Drawing from botanical forms, animal traces, and human-made detritus often in states of transformation, suspension, or containment—his work reflects on the ritualization and abstraction of nature, and the delicate tension between beauty and control.

Gordon Winarick ︎︎︎
His paintings and sculptures are built through careful attention to color, scale, proportion, and dimension. The work functions less as an object and more as a space for reflection. Silence is both a theme and a tool in his practice. He is drawn to what he calls the in between, the moments of apparent nothingness where clarity and truth often surface.