Cosmic Geometries is a 78-page, color publication with an essay by the eponymous exhibition’s co-curator Sharmistha Ray, an intro by Dylan Gauthier, photography by Yann Chashanovski⁠, catalog design by Lilly Hern Fondation. The book is available for purchase via print on demand.

Published July 2022.

Physical copies will be shipped by USPS.

Cosmic Geometries is a group exhibition at EFA Project Space from January 13 to February 26, 2022. The exhibition features intergenerational and intersectional artists that examines the spiritual and aesthetic functions of abstract painting and geometry in art. The artists deploy a range of painterly devices to create cosmic and transcendental visions that combine esoteric world traditions with the language of Modernism. Their motifs are inspired by sources as divergent as Islamic architecture, Buddhist mandalas, Hindu yantras, medieval Christian stained-glass windows, and quantum mechanics, rendering formal devices that range from tessellations, optical illusions, to elaborate ornamentation techniques. These artists primarily work with the language of painting, but also draw from languages and materials adapted from sculpture, installation, craft, textiles, and ceramics. Within these works lies a rich sensibility for color, shape, and compositional elements, which reveal the daring sensibilities that artists are bringing to the historically overlooked arena of the spiritual in art. These artists' practices build upon palimpsest legacies of alternative power structures that are constantly being erased.

Artists:
Natessa Amin, Yevgeniya Baras, Lisa Beck, Biren De, Grace DeGennaro, Evie Falci, Anoka Faruqee and David Driscoll, Rico Gatson, Diana Guerrero-Maciá, Xylor Jane, Valerie Jaudon, Laleh Khorramian, Julia Kunin, Marilyn Lerner, Anne Lindberg, Mahirwan Mamtani, Carrie Moyer, Stephen Mueller, Sky Pape, Dorothea Rockburne, A V Ryan, Laurel Sparks, Barbara Takenaga, Jackie Tileston, and Johanna Unzueta.

Organized by Hilma’s Ghost (Sharmistha Ray and Dannielle Tegeder)