Opening Reception: Saturday, June 20, 6–9 PM
With a DJ set by Designer Beatnik
Rosie Clements and Peter McRury make images that have lost something in transmission. Each artist is interested in the distance that develops between an image, its subject, and the surfaces through which it is experienced.
Clements UV-prints her photographs onto bubble wrap, a material made for protecting things, for keeping them intact in transit. She photographs what’s close to her: her heels, her Zoloft, the wine she drinks, her husband’s cigarettes, her favorite gas station snacks, her wedding ring. The bubbles refract light and scatter the image across a grid of soft lenses.
McRury’s paintings start from digital imagery that he distorts, fragments, and reprocesses, then rebuilds in thin layers of airbrushed acrylic on linen. The weave of the fabric interrupts atmospheric compositions of ghostly horses, hazy flowers, water, shells, and figures. For both artists, what reaches the surface is a version that has lost resolution along the way, like a file saved too many times.
In Surface Tension, the two artists arrive at softness through different registers. Clements stays intimate, anxious, and materially direct; McRury drifts toward atmosphere and quiet distance. Flowers, reflections, bodies, domestic objects, and ornamental forms recur across the exhibition like things half remembered. Together, the works ask what images retain as they become increasingly mediated and circulated.
About the Artists:
Rosie Clements (b. 1990, Fort Collins, CO) is a Los Angeles-based artist working in photography, sculpture, and print. Across all mediums, her practice is fundamentally image-based. In her recent work, she makes digital photographs and reconstitutes them as physical objects, testing the ever-blurring boundaries between the material and the virtual.
Clements received her MFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin in 2024. She has exhibited her work across the U.S. and internationally, including her first solo exhibition at McLennon Pen Co. in Austin, TX, in May 2024, as well as group exhibitions at Blah Blah Gallery in Philadelphia, PA, and the Bolinas Museum in Bolinas, CA. Editorial clients include The New York Times Opinion section, and Clements’s work has been featured in publications such as BOOOOOOOM, Southwest Contemporary, Dazed, and It’s Nice That. She was included in Lenscratch’s “26 to Watch” list in 2023. Her work has also been shown at major international art fairs. She was one of two featured artists in McLennon Pen Co.’s NADA Miami 2025 booth, and was later featured in Megan Mulrooney’s Paris Upstairs 2025 booth and Felix Art Fair 2026 booth.
Peter McRury (b. 1992, Toronto) is a Canadian artist living and working in Los Angeles. Working primarily in airbrushed acrylic on linen, his paintings use softened forms, layered transparency, and digital distortion to evoke the unstable feeling of images caught between memory, atmosphere, and screen-based mediation. McRury has exhibited work with McLennon Pen Co. in Austin, Weserhalle in Berlin, and other galleries in the United States. His work has been featured in BOOOOOOOM and Overstandard, and his paintings have appeared in several projects featured by Architectural Digest. McRury has created commissioned series for Ggiata Delicatessen locations in West Hollywood, Highland Park, and Echo Park, as well as for New Balance’s Fall/Winter 2024 Paris Fashion Week showroom.
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