Comet Eater
Storage is pleased to present an exhibition of recent works by Terra Keck (b. 1990), on view from August 8th through August 30th, 2025. Comprising a series of luminous eraser drawings made between 2024 and 2025, the show gathers Keck’s meditative investigations into cosmic consciousness, vision, and belief.
Keck’s subtractive process of rubbing away graphite laid atop watercolor ground produces radiant, otherworldly images that appear to hover just above the surface. The works are small in scale but immense in implication, combining the softness of devotional painting with the geometric clarity of astronomical diagrams. The recurring motifs of glimmering star fields, circular symbols, botanical apparitions, and flickers of light suggest a visual language suspended between mysticism and science fiction. Some works evoke the faint glow of a distant spacecraft; others, a glimpse of something sacred glimpsed through the veil of night.
Keck’s approach turns absence into presence. The images do not emerge from mark-making but from removal, inviting viewers to contemplate what remains. These works are not depictions of UFOs in the conventional sense; they offer no certainties, no discernible threat or origin. Rather, they treat the UFO as a symbol of hope, curiosity, and the desire to be seen. In a cultural moment marked by cynicism and collapse, Keck dares to imagine that the universe might be generous, kind, magical.
Her work has been described as “sonograms of a world ready to be born,” and indeed, there is a quiet optimism pulsing beneath each surface. The erasures recall cosmic dust, the fading of memory, or transmissions from a source we can sense but not decode. Yet their material precision grounds them firmly in the here and now, anchoring each dream in the reality of the hand.
In Keck’s drawings, something flickers— between worlds, between eras, between meanings. What we’re left with is not a vision of answers, but of attentiveness. A quiet call to keep looking up.
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Opening Reception
Friday, August 8th from 6-8pmStorage
52 Walker Street
4th Floor
Tribeca, New York 10013Additional Programming To Be Announced
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Terra Keck (b. 1991) is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa in 2018 and her BFA from Ball State University in 2013. Her work has been featured in publications such as Hyperallergic, The Art Newspaper, and Oxford American Arts, and can be found in permanent institutional collections at the Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaii State Foundation, TAMA University of Art in Japan, Wangarei Art Museum in New Zealand, California State University Long Beach, and Gladstone Regional Art Gallery in Australia.
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Storage is an artist-run gallery founded by Onyedika Chuke on the ideals of community, discovery, and connoisseurship. With locations in Tribeca and with a viewing room on the Bowery, Storage acts as an archive of makers that work in a range of materials and come from a wide demographic background. Half of the roster is dedicated to reinvigorating the careers of artists of historical prominence, while the other half focuses on nurturing rising artists. With a strong focus on art by women and people of color, Chuke guides Storage’s nontraditional approach to community building, commerce, and mutual aid.