Gates of Horn
Olivia Springberg
August 8th - August 30th, 2025
Storage is pleased to present Gates of Horn, the solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Olivia Springberg (b. 2000). The exhibition is on view at Storage from August 8th through August 30th, 2025.
Springberg presents 18 paintings that exemplify her ability to transform line and color into spiritual realms. 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.
Rendered with a dominant color, 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.
Springberg has said, “In my paintings, I imagine placing an object behind an X-ray, revealing imagined barriers, and making visible where these barriers overlap. The images are deconstructed and obscured by each layer of paint, only to be re-excavated and repeatedly re-formed by new moments of specificity and ambiguity.” Drawing from Jewish tradition, dream theory, and interests in archaeology and the occult, Springberg follows a tradition of artists exploring and reinventing the archetypes of folklore and the unconscious.
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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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Following Director Onyedika Chuke’s first two endeavors–Storage Projects Bowery (2020) and Storage Tribeca (2022)–Storage APT is conceived and renovated to serve as a deeply intimate, lesser-commercial, setting that highlights artists within the orbit of Storage Tribeca. Located three blocks from Cooper Union, Storage APT continues the strong tradition of cultural and conceptual inquiry that Chuke was immersed in during his time at the school. Storage APT is aimed at fostering a warm space where works are presented at a living, human scale and where community is cultivated through artist talks, dinners, and experimental projects.