Aleana Egan
VOID
Aleana Egan’s recent exhibition “Sampler” gathered ten works, including sculptural pieces made between 2007 and 2021 and two new paintings created during the pandemic. Not quite among the latter was panel (sand), 2021, a large bare linen canvas bisected by a cotton café curtain, which hung suspended in the storefront window of Void’s new premises, hinting at the private, almost insular romance unfolding inside. The exhibition was a kind of tour de toile and a material journey around the galleries, leading us from thread to fabric to costume to curtain to bandages to dust, articulating steps