ellipses: Adams and Ollman + Romance

ellipses: Adams and Ollman + Romance
at Adams and Ollman
June 5—27, 2026

Colleen Billing
Faith Icecold
Zora Moniz
Joan Nelson
Kate Newby
Ido Radon
Karolina Szwed

Checklist

ellipses is a multi-part exhibition organized by Adams and Ollman in Portland and Romance in Pittsburgh that will evolve over time and across both galleries. The project began with a shared desire for a different way of bringing artworks together—aimed at extended conversation and unhurried exchange, following intuition and building from what the works themselves create once they're together in a room. Like ellipses, which denote omissions, pauses in speech, trailing thoughts, or suspense—or an ellipse (singular), mathematically defined as the set of points where the sum of distances to two fixed points is constant—the project builds from fragmentation and extension, accumulating slowly through focus, repetition, variation, and revelation.

The exhibition opens at Adams and Ollman with painting, sculpture, and installation by an intergenerational group of artists who have been part of Romance's program or otherwise share affinities with both galleries' curatorial lens. It continues at Romance in the fall with a new group of works informed, but not determined, by the artists, ideas, contexts, and histories that came before at Adams and Ollman—culminating for a moment before moving on to its next expression. Sequencing and duration, between present and past, or the cadence from one place or time to another, become the show's walls, with no predetermined conclusion. A small text will accompany each installation, and a final essay when ellipses feels finished.

Checklist

Joan Nelson
Untitled, 2011
acrylic, oil, gouache, ink, spray paint, dry pigment on wood panel
19 1/2h x 19 1/2w in
49.53h x 49.53w cm
JN 724

Karolina Szwed
Wiadomosc od Aniołka, 2026
oil on canvas
7 7/8h x 19 5/8w in
20h x 49.85w cm
KSz003

Colleen Billing
X(432Hz), 2026
mirrored gazing ball, probscidea seed, aluminum
5 3/4h x 7w x 4d in
14.61h x 17.78w x 10.16d cm
CBill003

Faith Icecold
5:55, 2026
toner powder, acrylic medium, paper, aluminum leaf, adhesive, glass seed beads on gessoed canvas in aluminum leaf artist’s frame
12 1/2h x 16 1/2w in
31.75h x 41.91w cm
FIce001

Faith Icecold
7:17, 2026
toner powder, acrylic medium, paper, aluminum leaf, adhesive, glass seed beads on gessoed canvas in aluminum leaf artist’s frame
12 1/2h x 16 1/2w in
31.75h x 41.91w cm
FIce002

Faith Icecold
3:33, 2026
toner powder, acrylic medium, paper, aluminum leaf, adhesive, glass seed beads on gessoed canvas in aluminum leaf artist’s frame
12 1/2h x 16 1/2w in31.75h x 41.91w cm
FIce003

Faith Icecold
12:34, 2026
toner powder, acrylic medium, paper, aluminum leaf, adhesive, glass seed beads on gessoed canvas in aluminum leaf artist’s frame
12 1/2h x 16 1/2w in
31.75h x 41.91w cm
FIce004

Karolina Szwed
The Tombow Airpress did the best, 2026
oil on canvas
19 5/8h x 27 1/2w in
49.85h x 69.85w cm
KSz001

Karolina Szwed
no title (fountain), 2026
oil on canvas
15 3/4h x 19 5/8w in
40.01h x 49.85w cm
KSz002

Kate Newby
Get some air and water, 2018
glass, jute string
dimensions variable
K.Newby001

Colleen Billing
Channelers, 2026
pewter
dimensions variable
285 pieces
CBill002

Ido Radon
The world within reach (pantograph), 2026
wood, plastic, metal, corrugated cardboard
18 1/2h x 25w x 3 1/4d in
46.99h x 63.50w x 8.26d cm
RAD001

Zora Moniz
green-wood cemetery flirt, 2024
aluminum, graphite rubbing, notebook paper, tracing paper, receipts, newspaper, cigarette rolling paper, ricola wax paper, pencil, nails, and glue on panel
20h x 16w in
5 0.80h x 40.64w cm
ZMo005

Zora Moniz
gabriel's belt, 2026
aluminum, graphite rubbing, tracing paper, receipt paper, newspaper, nails, and glue on panel
10h x 7w in
25.40h x 17.78w cm
ZMo004