Gates of Horn
Olivia Springberg
August 8th - August 30th, 2025
Storage is pleased to present Gates of Horn, a solo exhibition of eighteen recent works by Olivia Springberg (b. 2000), on view from August 8, 2025 through August 30, 2025.
Titled after the mythical portal through which "true dreams" pass, Gates of Horn navigates the porous boundary between the seen and the intuited. In Springberg’s richly layered compositions, the body is both subject and cipher, with figures that twist and mirror each other, suggesting ancient rituals, psychological states, or internal logics yet to be named. Each painting, structured around a dominant hue, invites the viewer into a space where dream, myth, and geometry operate with equal weight.
Her careful understanding of and interest in geometry begins with the composition’s shape; while some of her canvases are rectangular, others are stretched onto non-traditional frames. Fodor’s Menorah takes the form of the eponymous religious icon. In Women's Side, a line of figures faces a niched corner. Geoglyphs, ancient script, and relief sculpture all inform the artist’s desire to craft powerful silhouettes. New additions to the series expand the dreamlike topography. In Magnus (Daredevils), a trio of figures appear to brace and test each other, their elongated limbs woven into a tense lattice of will and support. In Law of Inertia (My Favorite Leg), motion is both frozen and fractal, with bodies intersecting and dissolving as if suspended in a stroboscopic dream. Equal Force, Opposite Reaction III unfolds across a curved canvas, echoing architectural frescoes and invoking the visual logic of celestial charts.
The artist’s compositions create worlds that feel both protohistorical and rooted in aesthetic movements of the twentieth century. Song of Songs (After Tobiasse) directly references and reinterprets the French painter’s scene of the Hebrew Bible. In Equal Force, Opposite Reaction II - a fan-shaped canvas on its side - bodies emerge from curved striae. Their delicate, wary eyes - reminiscent of those painted by Remedios Varo - look out at the viewer, and her flattened planes recall compositions of Paul Klee. As she describes it, each image is placed “behind an X-ray,” gradually excavated, obscured, and re-excavated in a search for form through ambiguity.
The dream in Springberg’s universe is not a departure from truth, but a vessel for it. In Gates of Horn, vision moves laterally, through time, gesture, history, and myth, toward images that flicker with both recognition and mystery.
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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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Olivia Springberg holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design with a concentration in theory and history of art and design. She was a 2023 Florence Leif Award recipient and an L.A. Studio resident. She curated Water Seeks the Lowest Ground at Gellman Gallery in the RISD Museum and Judaica at Goldfarb Family Gallery, both in Providence, RI. Springberg has exhibited with Kunstraum, Brooklyn, NY; Field Projects, New York, NY; Project Gallery, New York, NY; Morris Adjmi Architects, New York, NY; Visu Contemporary, Miami, FL; Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI; and Ambar Quijano Gallery, Mexico City. She has been featured in New American Paintings, Art Maze Magazine, and Visionary Projects.
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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.