Stephen Lichty
November 7–December 21, 2019

Adams and Ollman is pleased to announce the gallery’s first presentation with San Francisco-based artist Stephen Lichty. The artist's plain language sculptures are made with careful attention to materials, desire, and composition. The resulting enigmatic, conceptual objects comport the artist’s slow ritual approach.

Branch (2018) toggles between a three dimensional sculpture and a line drawing in space. In this work, Lichty presents a freestanding weeping mulberry branch, cut from a tree near the artist’s former apartment in New York after years of contemplation. With each erratic twist and turn of the limbs, the branch performs the story of its movement, meaning, and migration to the present situation. Attached to the branch are five vertical lines reaching to the floor, that appear to support critical limbs. With Branch, an object becomes an image as well as a memory. Similarly, Untitled (2019) features an object that reads as an image, in this case, passively produced as a plate of fiber optic glass moves light from a collapsed plastic bag to a two dimensional plane.

Stephen Lichty lives and works in San Francisco, CA. He holds a BSc from the Department of Culture and Communications at New York University. Selected exhibitions include: "Be kind to the night,” The Garage at The David Ireland House, 500 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA; “Intuition,” Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy; "Stephen Lichty," Foxy Production, New York, NY; "A Momentary Lapse of Reason," Public Access, Chicago, IL; "I am sitting in a room," Jack Chiles, New York, NY; "Stephen Lichty," CAPITAL, San Francisco, CA; "Museum of Stones," The Noguchi Museum, Queens, NY; "Objects & Thin Air,” and Foxy Production, New York, NY.

installation view: Stephen Lichty


installation view: Stephen Lichty


installation view: Stephen Lichty


installation view: Stephen Lichty


installation view: Stephen Lichty


Stephen Lichty
Branch, 2018
Weeping mulberry branch, paraloid b-72, silver
72h x 60w x 77d in
182.88h x 152.40w x 195.58d cm
SLFP3932


Stephen Lichty
Untitled, 2019
fiber optic glass, plastic bag, aluminum frame with glass backing and wood strainer
6 1/4h x 5w x 1d in
15.88h x 12.70w x 2.54d cm
SL_FP4246


Stephen Lichty
Branch, 2018
Weeping mulberry branch, paraloid b-72, silver
2 1/2h x 15w x 7d in
6.35h x 38.10w x 17.78d cm
SL_FP3958