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This and this and this, and this now

April 18th – May 23, 2026 
Opening Reception: Saturday April 18th, 6-8pm

Announcing This and this and this, and this now,  a solo exhibition of works by Stella Ebner.

For this exhibition, Ebner creates a series of large-scale watercolor monotype prints and graphite drawings that examine their intrinsically intimate nature, exploring themes of intimacy, agency, interiority, and care. Her subjects are moments of human connection in both public and private spaces: a novel writing group, story time at the library, museum art handlers collaborating to install Seurat’s La Grande Jatte, a tailor fitting a suit on his customer. With these prints and drawings, she gives weight to and makes visible the often unacknowledged but profound moments of quiet connection that occur in everyday life. These moments reveal what brings us together and our fundamental human capacity for love, care, teaching, and learning.

Traditionally, prints and drawings have been considered small-scale and intimate works of art. With these works, she asks: ‘‘How can large scale prints and drawings be a vehicle for intimacy and what are the qualities of prints and drawings that make them intimate for the viewer?” Using scale, paneling, sequencing and time, she expands upon traditional print traditions, exploring how paneling can form composite, large-scale images and simultaneously retain moments of intimacy. Her use of scale asks the viewer to move physically “through” the prints and drawings to notice intimate details and then requires the viewer to step back to view the work as a whole. In this way, the images are now both intimate and monumental.

The title of the show This and this and this, and this now is sourced from the poem “Eleanor” by Marie Howe, 2014.

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Stella Ebner received her BFA from the University of Minnesota and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.  Exhibitions of her work include: the Bronx Museum of Arts, Bronx, NY; Cade Tompkins Projects, Providence, RI; Field Projects, NYC, NY; International Print Center New York, NYC, NY; The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA; and Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH.  Ebner has held residencies at MI-LAB in Lake Kawaguchi, Japan, Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM; the Lower East Side Printshop, NYC, NY; and Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA.  Her work is in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN; and Library of Congress Print Collection, Washington D.C.; among others.  Ebner is an Associate Professor at Purchase College – SUNY in Purchase, NY and lives in Ossining, NY. She is represented by Cade Tompkins Projects in Providence, RI.