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CONNERSMITH (@connersmithdc ) is pleased to offer Blossom - a new limited edition print by Erik Thor Sandberg (@thor_shimmer ). This iconic work celebrates Sandberg’s acclaimed 2016 Blossom series. Asserting skin as a metaphor for the body’s relationships with social constructs with imagery evocative of shedding, renewal and growth, Sandberg queries the chemistry of mutable identity, shaping a discourse on the fluidity of interfaces between self and society. Each archival print is hand signed by the artist and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. National/International shipping. /shop/erik-thor-sandberg #beautifulbizarre #surrealart #contemporaryart #erikthorsandberg #surrealism

We agree with The Phillips Collection. Leo Villareal Scramble NOW, thank you Prada, and THEN, premiered 2011 CONNERSMITH gallery. Villareal Double Scramble for 2027 … @phillipscollection @jonathanpbinstock @leo_villareal @voguemagazine @prada @connersmithdc

SCULPTURE BECOMES ARCHIVE. BOOK BECOMES OBJECT. WORKS – GNI-RI 2022 (2022) transforms a publication into a sculptural entity. No longer a passive container of images, the book becomes a physical extension of Ervinck’s universe—embedded within a custom wooden structure that frames, protects, and elevates it. The surface is marked by line-based mutations: drawings that echo neural networks, roots, or infrastructural systems. These lines are not illustrations but generative traces—evidence of a thinking process where drawing, sculpture, and digital modelling converge. Inside, the publication unfolds Ervinck’s broader practice, while the exterior asserts its autonomy as an object. The tension between content and container, inside and outside, transforms the work into a hybrid between archive and artefact. Material and meaning intertwine. Wood, print, and image operate together, blurring the boundary between documentation and artwork. The book is no longer secondary—it becomes sculpture itself. WORKS – GNI-RI 2022, 2022 Book and wood 30 × 23 × 8 cm 11.8 × 9.1 × 3.1 inches CURRENTLY ON VIEW / AVAILABLE AT GNI-RI Apr 2026, Echoes in Fabric, Stone and Metal Gallery Ysebaert, Sint-Martens-Latem (BE) 16/04/2026 – 07/06/2026 HISTORY GNI-RI Apr 2026, Echoes in Fabric, Stone and Metal, Gallery Ysebaert, Sint-Martens-Latem (BE), 16/04/2026 – 07/06/2026 GNI-RI Jul 2023, Architectural Works, K.E.R.K., Sint-Pieters (BE), 01/07/2023 – 31/08/2023 GNI-RI Mar 2023, Sint (BE), 10/03/2023 – 23/04/2023 Affordable Art Fair, Tour & Taxis, Brussel (BE), 08/02/2023 – 12/02/2023 GNI-RI Jul 2022, Line Works, Gualion Finance, Knokke (BE), 08/07/2022 – 15/07/2022 — #nickervinck #gniri #bookasobject #artistsbook #contemporaryart #belgianart #sculpturalresearch #hybridform #linemutation #drawingtosculpture #artpublication #collectibleart #europeanart @manus_interieur Available at @galleryysebaert @nqgallerybe @kunsthalle_ervinck @connersmithdc @verduyngallery @hannibal_books

READ UP: ArtForum February 2026. Shannon Taggart on the Paranormal archive of SORRAT. “It’s like Poltergeist meets Stephen Shore” - Susan Aberth, art historian. online PDF: /research/news @artforum @tinariversryan @seance_book #SORRAT #johngneihardt @aberthsusan

Congratulations Joan and Bruce Weber - HUMANIST TOUCH opens Friday at The Katzen. Featuring gallery artists Erik Thor Sandberg, J.J. McCracken, Sheldon Scott@from the Collection. image 👆🏻 J.J McCracken, The Feeding (Lucy), 2020. (detail). full sculpture here: /artists/jj-mccracken/featured-works?view=slider

Opening 2 shows this weekend!!! First is a new performance and artwork commissioned by @driskellcenter at University of Maryland’s show, “America Will Be“ that opens on Friday, February 6, 2026 from 5-7PM “….and to the Republic..., the performance of an inconvenient American Beauty”, is an ambient time-based piece on the infiniteness of the threading of the plenty, that compose the United States. This presentation of a “living flag” foregrounds the most critical feature of the flag as its insistence on its own evolution and that its call for allegiance insists its followers evolve as well. The piece asks the viewers to choose a color of thread that represents the complexions of your Americanness. That thread will be deployed to bind the country to its ideals. “America Will Be” will be on view at The Driskell Center gallery from February 9 through May 8, the exhibition will open with a public reception on February 6 from 5 to 7 p.m. Preview and opening reception, featuring a commissioned performance by the artist Sheldon Scott, will be held in The Driskell Center Gallery on Friday, February 6, 2026, 5 p.m. - 6 p.m. America Will Be! is curated by Dr. Nicole Archer (Montclair State University) and Dr. Jordana Moore Saggese (University of Maryland, College Park). Significant support for the exhibition is provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art, with additional support from the Maryland State Arts Council () and the University of Maryland’s Arts for All initiative. “Humanist Touch: Works from the Weber Collection” opens at Katzen Museum at American University on Saturday, February 7 from 6-9PM. Curated by Laura Roulet, these works from the Weber collection reflect Joan and Bruce Weber’s long engagement with contemporary DMV artists and galleries. When they describe their collection, a strong sense of community emerges, one enriched by personal ties to the artists and by the many conversations, visits, and encounters that shaped their choices. @driskellcenter @univofmaryland @aumuseum_katzen @americanuniversity @connersmithdc

Yes indeed. reference also — works from Susan MacWilliam, Erik Thor Sandberg, Shannon Taggart. Great observance, @observer .

BETWEEN GROWTH AND CONTROL DIULOCOR unfolds as a complex organism in continuous transformation. Classical sculptural language is overtaken by proliferating structures that seem to grow, mutate and entangle, balancing between order and excess. The work reflects on systems that evolve beyond human control—biological, digital and societal—where beauty emerges from instability rather than harmony. Through digital design and 3D printing, DIULOCOR bridges the gap between algorithmic precision and organic unpredictability. What appears ornamental reveals itself as a network: layered, adaptive, and alive. DIULOCOR, 2013–2016 3D print 63 × 25 × 37 cm 24.8 × 9.8 × 14.6 inches Exhibited at (selection): GNI-RI sep2016, Bogarden Kapel, Brugge (BE) Tree of Life, Kunstgalerij De Mijlpaal, Heusden (BE) Between Earth and Heaven, PAK, Brugge (BE) SCULPTURAL II, K.E.R.K., Middelkerke (BE) Available via @nqgallerybe @galleryysebaert @verduyngallery @kunsthalle_ervinck @connersmithdc — #nickervinck #yarotobs #contemporarysculpture #sculpture #artobject #collectibleart #artcollector #organicforms #blobart #coralstudy #networkstructures #systemsart #digitaltophysical #materiality #belgianart #europeanart #galleryart #museumquality #artlovers #artdaily #instaart @nqgallerybe @galleryysebaert @kunsthalle_ervinck @connersmithdc @verduyngallery