Quality Pictures is proud to present Emergents, a new installation by Nick Raffel in the gallery’s back project space. Inspired by the principles of fractal geometry and self-replication, Emergents is a remarkable play of paper and shadows, instigated by the artist’s unique and systematic process. Beginning with a single sheet of drafting paper, cut into a delicate, web-like pattern, Raffel suspends the latticed paper from his studio ceiling, tracing the shadows it casts on the wall. He creates another template from that tracing, repeating this process dozens of times until he has accumulated a small colony of shapes that evoke the organic patterns of biological, economic, psychological, and mathematical systems. Finally, these translucent webs are suspended from the ceiling, creating an intricate theater of shadows and muted tones on the gallery walls. Emergents opens tonight, December 4, and remains on view through December 23.

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