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‘The candle is on the table’ continues today and tomorrow, 12 - 6pm. Molly Rose Lieberman’s exhibition is on view until Saturday, June 20th.

Pictured:
The wind wakes me up, 2025
Acrylic, oil, cold wax, inkjet print, photograph on linen in artist’s frame
27½ x 27 in
69 x 68 cm

#mollyroselieberman

‘The candle is on the table’ continues today and tomorrow, 12 - 6pm. Molly Rose Lieberman’s exhibition is on view until Saturday, June 20th.

Pictured:
The wind wakes me up, 2025
Acrylic, oil, cold wax, inkjet print, photograph on linen in artist’s frame
27½ x 27 in
69 x 68 cm

#mollyroselieberman

Please join us this upcoming Tuesday, June 9th, 6-8pm at the Hauser & Wirth Bookshop for a panel discussion, index reading, and book signing surrounding the publication of Molly Rose Lieberman’s first book, ‘A landscape shredded’ moderated by Johanna Fateman, with Joey Frank, and Sylvie Hayes-Wallace.

Copies of ‘A landscape shredded’ will be signed and available to purchase at the event for $45 + tax

Please join us this upcoming Tuesday, June 9th, 6-8pm at the Hauser & Wirth Bookshop for a panel discussion, index reading, and book signing surrounding the publication of Molly Rose Lieberman’s first book, ‘A landscape shredded’ moderated by Johanna Fateman, with Joey Frank, and Sylvie Hayes-Wallace.

Copies of ‘A landscape shredded’ will be signed and available to purchase at the event for $45 + tax

Please join us this upcoming Tuesday, June 9th, 6-8pm at the Hauser & Wirth Bookshop for a panel discussion, index reading, and book signing surrounding the publication of Molly Rose Lieberman’s first book, ‘A landscape shredded’ moderated by Johanna Fateman, with Joey Frank, and Sylvie Hayes-Wallace.

Copies of ‘A landscape shredded’ will be signed and available to purchase at the event for $45 + tax

Theta is pleased to announce its participation in Liste Art Fair Basel 2026 with a solo presentation of new work by Tony Chrenka.

Layering original photographs with folded, taped, and marked sheets of mylar alongside fragments of colored lighting gels, Chrenka’s photo collages transform ordinary subjects into complex fields of reflection, opacity, and color. Simultaneously image, filter, and object, the works reveal their own construction while resisting complete legibility.

The booth will feature new photo collages alongside a selection of new sculptures.

Pictured:
Tony Chrenka
Spanish Cow, 2026
Inkjet print, mylar, lighting gels
20 x 14 in
50 x 35 cm
23¾ x 18 in. (framed)

Tony Chrenka (b. 1992, Minneapolis) lives and works in New York. Solo and two-person exhibitions include Toby, Brooklyn (2026); SculptureCenter, Long Island City (2024); Theta, New York (2023, 2021) and Kaje, Brooklyn (2019). Group exhibitions include Cherry Hill, Cologne (2025); Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf (2024); Clementin Seedorf, Cologne (2023); and Shoot the Lobster, New York (2022). In 2023, he participated in the Independent Study Program at The Whitney Museum of American Art.

Theta is pleased to announce its participation in Liste Art Fair Basel 2026 with a solo presentation of new work by Tony Chrenka.

Layering original photographs with folded, taped, and marked sheets of mylar alongside fragments of colored lighting gels, Chrenka’s photo collages transform ordinary subjects into complex fields of reflection, opacity, and color. Simultaneously image, filter, and object, the works reveal their own construction while resisting complete legibility.

The booth will feature new photo collages alongside a selection of new sculptures.

Pictured:
Tony Chrenka
Spanish Cow, 2026
Inkjet print, mylar, lighting gels
20 x 14 in
50 x 35 cm
23¾ x 18 in. (framed)

Tony Chrenka (b. 1992, Minneapolis) lives and works in New York. Solo and two-person exhibitions include Toby, Brooklyn (2026); SculptureCenter, Long Island City (2024); Theta, New York (2023, 2021) and Kaje, Brooklyn (2019). Group exhibitions include Cherry Hill, Cologne (2025); Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf (2024); Clementin Seedorf, Cologne (2023); and Shoot the Lobster, New York (2022). In 2023, he participated in the Independent Study Program at The Whitney Museum of American Art.

Theta is pleased to announce its participation in Liste Art Fair Basel 2026 with a solo presentation of new work by Tony Chrenka.

Layering original photographs with folded, taped, and marked sheets of mylar alongside fragments of colored lighting gels, Chrenka’s photo collages transform ordinary subjects into complex fields of reflection, opacity, and color. Simultaneously image, filter, and object, the works reveal their own construction while resisting complete legibility.

The booth will feature new photo collages alongside a selection of new sculptures.

Pictured:
Tony Chrenka
Spanish Cow, 2026
Inkjet print, mylar, lighting gels
20 x 14 in
50 x 35 cm
23¾ x 18 in. (framed)

Tony Chrenka (b. 1992, Minneapolis) lives and works in New York. Solo and two-person exhibitions include Toby, Brooklyn (2026); SculptureCenter, Long Island City (2024); Theta, New York (2023, 2021) and Kaje, Brooklyn (2019). Group exhibitions include Cherry Hill, Cologne (2025); Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf (2024); Clementin Seedorf, Cologne (2023); and Shoot the Lobster, New York (2022). In 2023, he participated in the Independent Study Program at The Whitney Museum of American Art.

Molly Rose Lieberman
The candle is on the table 5, 2026
Bronze and beeswax candles
5 x 4 x 4 in
12 x 10 x 10 cm

‘The candle is on the table’, Molly Rose Lieberman’s second solo exhibition with the gallery is open today and tomorrow, 12-6pm, and on view until June 20th.

#mollyroselieberman

Molly Rose Lieberman
The candle is on the table 5, 2026
Bronze and beeswax candles
5 x 4 x 4 in
12 x 10 x 10 cm

‘The candle is on the table’, Molly Rose Lieberman’s second solo exhibition with the gallery is open today and tomorrow, 12-6pm, and on view until June 20th.

#mollyroselieberman

Congratulations David L. Johnson on receiving a 2026 New York City Artadia Award!

“Johnson’s precise lens allows us to see the relationship between the structural and the personal and how these registers define our lives in New York City. There’s a poetic quality to his incisive critique that asks the viewer to keep returning to the work.”
– Elisabeth Sherman, Chief Curator, Museum of The City of New York

David L. Johnson (b. 1993, New York, NY) received a BFA from The Cooper Union in 2015 and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020. He is an alumnus of the Whitney Independent Study Program and a part-time faculty member in the Fine Arts MFA program at Parsons School of Design. His work has been exhibited at the 2026 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus; Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago; and MoMA PS1, New York. Johnson’s work is held in the public collection of The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Columbus Museum of Art.

Johnson’s work is currently on view in the 2026 Whitney Biennial curated by Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer, and Mulberry Bend, curated by Dylan Seh-Jin Kim.

Pictured:
Portrait of the artist by © Christopher Garcia Valle

Cleveland’s Mix (WBLS 89), 2025
Video, monitor, painted iron case, speakers, electronics

#davidljohnson

Congratulations David L. Johnson on receiving a 2026 New York City Artadia Award!

“Johnson’s precise lens allows us to see the relationship between the structural and the personal and how these registers define our lives in New York City. There’s a poetic quality to his incisive critique that asks the viewer to keep returning to the work.”
– Elisabeth Sherman, Chief Curator, Museum of The City of New York

David L. Johnson (b. 1993, New York, NY) received a BFA from The Cooper Union in 2015 and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020. He is an alumnus of the Whitney Independent Study Program and a part-time faculty member in the Fine Arts MFA program at Parsons School of Design. His work has been exhibited at the 2026 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus; Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago; and MoMA PS1, New York. Johnson’s work is held in the public collection of The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Columbus Museum of Art.

Johnson’s work is currently on view in the 2026 Whitney Biennial curated by Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer, and Mulberry Bend, curated by Dylan Seh-Jin Kim.

Pictured:
Portrait of the artist by © Christopher Garcia Valle

Cleveland’s Mix (WBLS 89), 2025
Video, monitor, painted iron case, speakers, electronics

#davidljohnson

Molly Rose Lieberman’s solo exhibition ‘The candle is on the table’ continues today. Visit 12-6.
Pictured:
Molly Rose Lieberman
Bowl of grapes, 2026
Oil, cold wax, inkjet prints on board in artist’s frame
18½ x 22¼ in
46 x 56 cm

#mollyroselieberman

Molly Rose Lieberman’s solo exhibition ‘The candle is on the table’ continues today. Visit 12-6.
Pictured:
Molly Rose Lieberman
Bowl of grapes, 2026
Oil, cold wax, inkjet prints on board in artist’s frame
18½ x 22¼ in
46 x 56 cm

#mollyroselieberman

‘The candle is on the table’ Molly Rose Leiberman’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, is on view until June 20th and documentation is now online. Theta is open today, 12-6pm.
**Please note, the gallery will be closed tomorrow, Saturday May 23rd for Memorial Day weekend**

Stop by to pickup your copy of ‘A landscape shredded’ - Molly Rose Leiberman’s first monograph co-published with @galerie5b !

#mollyroselieberman

‘The candle is on the table’ Molly Rose Leiberman’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, is on view until June 20th and documentation is now online. Theta is open today, 12-6pm.
**Please note, the gallery will be closed tomorrow, Saturday May 23rd for Memorial Day weekend**

Stop by to pickup your copy of ‘A landscape shredded’ - Molly Rose Leiberman’s first monograph co-published with @galerie5b !

#mollyroselieberman

‘The candle is on the table’ Molly Rose Leiberman’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, is on view until June 20th and documentation is now online. Theta is open today, 12-6pm.
**Please note, the gallery will be closed tomorrow, Saturday May 23rd for Memorial Day weekend**

Stop by to pickup your copy of ‘A landscape shredded’ - Molly Rose Leiberman’s first monograph co-published with @galerie5b !

#mollyroselieberman

‘The candle is on the table’ Molly Rose Leiberman’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, is on view until June 20th and documentation is now online. Theta is open today, 12-6pm.
**Please note, the gallery will be closed tomorrow, Saturday May 23rd for Memorial Day weekend**

Stop by to pickup your copy of ‘A landscape shredded’ - Molly Rose Leiberman’s first monograph co-published with @galerie5b !

#mollyroselieberman

‘The candle is on the table’ Molly Rose Leiberman’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, is on view until June 20th and documentation is now online. Theta is open today, 12-6pm.
**Please note, the gallery will be closed tomorrow, Saturday May 23rd for Memorial Day weekend**

Stop by to pickup your copy of ‘A landscape shredded’ - Molly Rose Leiberman’s first monograph co-published with @galerie5b !

#mollyroselieberman

‘The candle is on the table’ Molly Rose Leiberman’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, is on view until June 20th and documentation is now online. Theta is open today, 12-6pm.
**Please note, the gallery will be closed tomorrow, Saturday May 23rd for Memorial Day weekend**

Stop by to pickup your copy of ‘A landscape shredded’ - Molly Rose Leiberman’s first monograph co-published with @galerie5b !

#mollyroselieberman

Hannah Taurins
Permission to Enter, 2026
Acrylic guoache and colored pencil on panel
24 x 18 in

Hannah Taurins is on view at Hospitalet Stockholm in ‘Dire Straits’ curated by Benjamin Godsill and hosted by Carl Kostyal.
Sjökvarnsbacken 15, 131 71, Nacka, Stockholm
April 4, 2026 — April 11, 2027

#hannahtaurins

#ListeGalleries Theta, New York @theta.nyc presents Tony Chrenka @tonychrenka

Tony Chrenka’s practice examines how perception is shaped by systems of work, constraint, and material mediation. Working across sculpture, photography, and collage, Chrenka foregrounds processes that translate expansive phenomena—light, time, work, bodily experience—into usable and legible forms. For Liste Art Fair Basel 2026, the presentation will bring together three interrelated bodies of work: new bentwood sculptures, mylar tubes, and lighting gel photo collages. Together, these works articulate a shared concern with surface versus depth, support versus image, and the way materials regulate our experience of space and time.

Images:
1: Bentwood (1), 2026
2: Portrait of the artist, Tony Chrenka

Courtesy:
The Artist and Theta

Liste
15–21 June 2026
Hall 1.1, Messe Basel

#Liste2026 #ListeArtFairBasel

#ListeGalleries Theta, New York @theta.nyc presents Tony Chrenka @tonychrenka

Tony Chrenka’s practice examines how perception is shaped by systems of work, constraint, and material mediation. Working across sculpture, photography, and collage, Chrenka foregrounds processes that translate expansive phenomena—light, time, work, bodily experience—into usable and legible forms. For Liste Art Fair Basel 2026, the presentation will bring together three interrelated bodies of work: new bentwood sculptures, mylar tubes, and lighting gel photo collages. Together, these works articulate a shared concern with surface versus depth, support versus image, and the way materials regulate our experience of space and time.

Images:
1: Bentwood (1), 2026
2: Portrait of the artist, Tony Chrenka

Courtesy:
The Artist and Theta

Liste
15–21 June 2026
Hall 1.1, Messe Basel

#Liste2026 #ListeArtFairBasel

OPENING TOMORROW Friday May 15, 6-8pm: Molly Rose Lieberman - The candle is on the table
May 15 - June 20, 2026

It was early September: the summer was gone but it was not over. I found a lot of good nouns when I arrived on the auction house floor and I pocketed them for a later date, when words would be table offerings for humble hosts. My winnings were rolled out and the smile that passed between my lips did not lend a hand to the mass. The lacquered and mirrored surface of the pedestal undid the dull of the yellow; the contrast of texture and color made for a surprising elegance embodied only by something that has lived a time. We only discovered its true weight back on Elizabeth Street while unloading the Subaru. It was not liftable but we lifted it, Dad and I, until we arrived in the corridor stunned, unable to climb the stairs. Determined to find the culprit of the heaviness, I investigated a rattling and unscrewed a wooden panel from the bottom of the object. Dad removed the 100 pound weight from its body, brought it to the curb, and I returned to my studio.
- MRL

Lieberman’s full press release is on our website and linked in bio.

Pictured:
Btw 2 bridges, 2026
Oil and flashe on linen in artist’s frame
27½ × 27 in

#mollyroselieberman

Opening next Friday, May 15, 6-8pm: Molly Rose Lieberman
The candle is on the table
May 15 - June 20, 2026

Theta is delighted to present The candle is on the table, Molly Rose Lieberman’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. This is one of two intercontinental shows surrounding the launch of the artist’s first monograph, A landscape shredded, co-published by Theta and @galerie5b, Glasgow.

Press release forthcoming.

Molly Rose Lieberman (b. 1994, Brooklyn) lives and works in New York. Solo presentations include: 5b, Glasgow; Theta, New York (both 2026); Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2024); Paris Internationale with Theta, Paris (2023); Theta, New York (2023); and Fonda, Leipzig (2020). Group exhibitions include: Reena Spaulings, New York; Paulina Caspari, Munich (both 2025); Greene Naftali, New York (2024); Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2023); Greene Naftali, New York; Chapter, New York; and Theta, New York (all 2022). She received a BA from Oberlin College in 2016, and a MLS from Queens College in 2025.

#mollyroselieberman

“The World and its inhabitants,” a project initiated in 1980 by Paul Etienne Lincoln, unfolds as a miniature theater of 75. (and counting) allegorical machines. First conceived as “a miniature circus, a salon divertissement,” the work activates characters encountered through literature, history, and private fascination. Lincoln constructs delicate effigies animated through intricate electrical and mechanical systems powered by champagne and a lead shoe. Once triggered, each figure performs a brief, singular spectacle, condensing its subject’s life into a fleeting gesture before returning to permanent stillness. Historically staged as intimate entremets presentations for dinner guests, the performances combine scientific apparatus with ritualized theater, transforming mechanical ingenuity into a stage for memory and imagination. Presented here alongside such figures as Igor Stravinsky and Big Ben are fragments of the project’s evolving archive—dedicated cards, posters, and other ephemera documenting its origins and many iterations—tracing a decades-long attempt to assemble explorers, magicians, musicians, animals, and spirits into what Lincoln describes as an ever-expanding world.

On view at Theta until this Saturday, May 2nd, are 6 of “The World” characters accompanied by ephemera from the project’s history. Period Piece closes this Saturday. Theta is open this week 12-6pm.

1. The World and its Inhabitants: The Copper Governor in full swing energizing Nextus II, 1982
2. The Ringmaster attaching pearl earrings to his ears earthling himself via a sponge to the lightning conductor on the roof. 1981
3. Big Ben, 2020, Machined brass armature, working clock mechanism with mechanical chimes, tin box of After Eights, tissue wrapped wafer, crystal etched globe of the world, illuminated on activation. 24¼ x 13½ x 13½ in
5. Sir Thomas Lipton, 2019, Forged steel armature, precision built motor drive, miniature heating element, various crustacean shells, original Lipton tea bag. 21¼ x 13¾ x 13¾ in
5. The World and Its Inhabitants I and II, 2022. Published by Christine Burgin, Edition of 30. 53 x 35 in
7. The World and Its Inhabitants ephemera, detail

#pauletiennelincoln

“The World and its inhabitants,” a project initiated in 1980 by Paul Etienne Lincoln, unfolds as a miniature theater of 75. (and counting) allegorical machines. First conceived as “a miniature circus, a salon divertissement,” the work activates characters encountered through literature, history, and private fascination. Lincoln constructs delicate effigies animated through intricate electrical and mechanical systems powered by champagne and a lead shoe. Once triggered, each figure performs a brief, singular spectacle, condensing its subject’s life into a fleeting gesture before returning to permanent stillness. Historically staged as intimate entremets presentations for dinner guests, the performances combine scientific apparatus with ritualized theater, transforming mechanical ingenuity into a stage for memory and imagination. Presented here alongside such figures as Igor Stravinsky and Big Ben are fragments of the project’s evolving archive—dedicated cards, posters, and other ephemera documenting its origins and many iterations—tracing a decades-long attempt to assemble explorers, magicians, musicians, animals, and spirits into what Lincoln describes as an ever-expanding world.

On view at Theta until this Saturday, May 2nd, are 6 of “The World” characters accompanied by ephemera from the project’s history. Period Piece closes this Saturday. Theta is open this week 12-6pm.

1. The World and its Inhabitants: The Copper Governor in full swing energizing Nextus II, 1982
2. The Ringmaster attaching pearl earrings to his ears earthling himself via a sponge to the lightning conductor on the roof. 1981
3. Big Ben, 2020, Machined brass armature, working clock mechanism with mechanical chimes, tin box of After Eights, tissue wrapped wafer, crystal etched globe of the world, illuminated on activation. 24¼ x 13½ x 13½ in
5. Sir Thomas Lipton, 2019, Forged steel armature, precision built motor drive, miniature heating element, various crustacean shells, original Lipton tea bag. 21¼ x 13¾ x 13¾ in
5. The World and Its Inhabitants I and II, 2022. Published by Christine Burgin, Edition of 30. 53 x 35 in
7. The World and Its Inhabitants ephemera, detail

#pauletiennelincoln

“The World and its inhabitants,” a project initiated in 1980 by Paul Etienne Lincoln, unfolds as a miniature theater of 75. (and counting) allegorical machines. First conceived as “a miniature circus, a salon divertissement,” the work activates characters encountered through literature, history, and private fascination. Lincoln constructs delicate effigies animated through intricate electrical and mechanical systems powered by champagne and a lead shoe. Once triggered, each figure performs a brief, singular spectacle, condensing its subject’s life into a fleeting gesture before returning to permanent stillness. Historically staged as intimate entremets presentations for dinner guests, the performances combine scientific apparatus with ritualized theater, transforming mechanical ingenuity into a stage for memory and imagination. Presented here alongside such figures as Igor Stravinsky and Big Ben are fragments of the project’s evolving archive—dedicated cards, posters, and other ephemera documenting its origins and many iterations—tracing a decades-long attempt to assemble explorers, magicians, musicians, animals, and spirits into what Lincoln describes as an ever-expanding world.

On view at Theta until this Saturday, May 2nd, are 6 of “The World” characters accompanied by ephemera from the project’s history. Period Piece closes this Saturday. Theta is open this week 12-6pm.

1. The World and its Inhabitants: The Copper Governor in full swing energizing Nextus II, 1982
2. The Ringmaster attaching pearl earrings to his ears earthling himself via a sponge to the lightning conductor on the roof. 1981
3. Big Ben, 2020, Machined brass armature, working clock mechanism with mechanical chimes, tin box of After Eights, tissue wrapped wafer, crystal etched globe of the world, illuminated on activation. 24¼ x 13½ x 13½ in
5. Sir Thomas Lipton, 2019, Forged steel armature, precision built motor drive, miniature heating element, various crustacean shells, original Lipton tea bag. 21¼ x 13¾ x 13¾ in
5. The World and Its Inhabitants I and II, 2022. Published by Christine Burgin, Edition of 30. 53 x 35 in
7. The World and Its Inhabitants ephemera, detail

#pauletiennelincoln

“The World and its inhabitants,” a project initiated in 1980 by Paul Etienne Lincoln, unfolds as a miniature theater of 75. (and counting) allegorical machines. First conceived as “a miniature circus, a salon divertissement,” the work activates characters encountered through literature, history, and private fascination. Lincoln constructs delicate effigies animated through intricate electrical and mechanical systems powered by champagne and a lead shoe. Once triggered, each figure performs a brief, singular spectacle, condensing its subject’s life into a fleeting gesture before returning to permanent stillness. Historically staged as intimate entremets presentations for dinner guests, the performances combine scientific apparatus with ritualized theater, transforming mechanical ingenuity into a stage for memory and imagination. Presented here alongside such figures as Igor Stravinsky and Big Ben are fragments of the project’s evolving archive—dedicated cards, posters, and other ephemera documenting its origins and many iterations—tracing a decades-long attempt to assemble explorers, magicians, musicians, animals, and spirits into what Lincoln describes as an ever-expanding world.

On view at Theta until this Saturday, May 2nd, are 6 of “The World” characters accompanied by ephemera from the project’s history. Period Piece closes this Saturday. Theta is open this week 12-6pm.

1. The World and its Inhabitants: The Copper Governor in full swing energizing Nextus II, 1982
2. The Ringmaster attaching pearl earrings to his ears earthling himself via a sponge to the lightning conductor on the roof. 1981
3. Big Ben, 2020, Machined brass armature, working clock mechanism with mechanical chimes, tin box of After Eights, tissue wrapped wafer, crystal etched globe of the world, illuminated on activation. 24¼ x 13½ x 13½ in
5. Sir Thomas Lipton, 2019, Forged steel armature, precision built motor drive, miniature heating element, various crustacean shells, original Lipton tea bag. 21¼ x 13¾ x 13¾ in
5. The World and Its Inhabitants I and II, 2022. Published by Christine Burgin, Edition of 30. 53 x 35 in
7. The World and Its Inhabitants ephemera, detail

#pauletiennelincoln

“The World and its inhabitants,” a project initiated in 1980 by Paul Etienne Lincoln, unfolds as a miniature theater of 75. (and counting) allegorical machines. First conceived as “a miniature circus, a salon divertissement,” the work activates characters encountered through literature, history, and private fascination. Lincoln constructs delicate effigies animated through intricate electrical and mechanical systems powered by champagne and a lead shoe. Once triggered, each figure performs a brief, singular spectacle, condensing its subject’s life into a fleeting gesture before returning to permanent stillness. Historically staged as intimate entremets presentations for dinner guests, the performances combine scientific apparatus with ritualized theater, transforming mechanical ingenuity into a stage for memory and imagination. Presented here alongside such figures as Igor Stravinsky and Big Ben are fragments of the project’s evolving archive—dedicated cards, posters, and other ephemera documenting its origins and many iterations—tracing a decades-long attempt to assemble explorers, magicians, musicians, animals, and spirits into what Lincoln describes as an ever-expanding world.

On view at Theta until this Saturday, May 2nd, are 6 of “The World” characters accompanied by ephemera from the project’s history. Period Piece closes this Saturday. Theta is open this week 12-6pm.

1. The World and its Inhabitants: The Copper Governor in full swing energizing Nextus II, 1982
2. The Ringmaster attaching pearl earrings to his ears earthling himself via a sponge to the lightning conductor on the roof. 1981
3. Big Ben, 2020, Machined brass armature, working clock mechanism with mechanical chimes, tin box of After Eights, tissue wrapped wafer, crystal etched globe of the world, illuminated on activation. 24¼ x 13½ x 13½ in
5. Sir Thomas Lipton, 2019, Forged steel armature, precision built motor drive, miniature heating element, various crustacean shells, original Lipton tea bag. 21¼ x 13¾ x 13¾ in
5. The World and Its Inhabitants I and II, 2022. Published by Christine Burgin, Edition of 30. 53 x 35 in
7. The World and Its Inhabitants ephemera, detail

#pauletiennelincoln

“The World and its inhabitants,” a project initiated in 1980 by Paul Etienne Lincoln, unfolds as a miniature theater of 75. (and counting) allegorical machines. First conceived as “a miniature circus, a salon divertissement,” the work activates characters encountered through literature, history, and private fascination. Lincoln constructs delicate effigies animated through intricate electrical and mechanical systems powered by champagne and a lead shoe. Once triggered, each figure performs a brief, singular spectacle, condensing its subject’s life into a fleeting gesture before returning to permanent stillness. Historically staged as intimate entremets presentations for dinner guests, the performances combine scientific apparatus with ritualized theater, transforming mechanical ingenuity into a stage for memory and imagination. Presented here alongside such figures as Igor Stravinsky and Big Ben are fragments of the project’s evolving archive—dedicated cards, posters, and other ephemera documenting its origins and many iterations—tracing a decades-long attempt to assemble explorers, magicians, musicians, animals, and spirits into what Lincoln describes as an ever-expanding world.

On view at Theta until this Saturday, May 2nd, are 6 of “The World” characters accompanied by ephemera from the project’s history. Period Piece closes this Saturday. Theta is open this week 12-6pm.

1. The World and its Inhabitants: The Copper Governor in full swing energizing Nextus II, 1982
2. The Ringmaster attaching pearl earrings to his ears earthling himself via a sponge to the lightning conductor on the roof. 1981
3. Big Ben, 2020, Machined brass armature, working clock mechanism with mechanical chimes, tin box of After Eights, tissue wrapped wafer, crystal etched globe of the world, illuminated on activation. 24¼ x 13½ x 13½ in
5. Sir Thomas Lipton, 2019, Forged steel armature, precision built motor drive, miniature heating element, various crustacean shells, original Lipton tea bag. 21¼ x 13¾ x 13¾ in
5. The World and Its Inhabitants I and II, 2022. Published by Christine Burgin, Edition of 30. 53 x 35 in
7. The World and Its Inhabitants ephemera, detail

#pauletiennelincoln

“The World and its inhabitants,” a project initiated in 1980 by Paul Etienne Lincoln, unfolds as a miniature theater of 75. (and counting) allegorical machines. First conceived as “a miniature circus, a salon divertissement,” the work activates characters encountered through literature, history, and private fascination. Lincoln constructs delicate effigies animated through intricate electrical and mechanical systems powered by champagne and a lead shoe. Once triggered, each figure performs a brief, singular spectacle, condensing its subject’s life into a fleeting gesture before returning to permanent stillness. Historically staged as intimate entremets presentations for dinner guests, the performances combine scientific apparatus with ritualized theater, transforming mechanical ingenuity into a stage for memory and imagination. Presented here alongside such figures as Igor Stravinsky and Big Ben are fragments of the project’s evolving archive—dedicated cards, posters, and other ephemera documenting its origins and many iterations—tracing a decades-long attempt to assemble explorers, magicians, musicians, animals, and spirits into what Lincoln describes as an ever-expanding world.

On view at Theta until this Saturday, May 2nd, are 6 of “The World” characters accompanied by ephemera from the project’s history. Period Piece closes this Saturday. Theta is open this week 12-6pm.

1. The World and its Inhabitants: The Copper Governor in full swing energizing Nextus II, 1982
2. The Ringmaster attaching pearl earrings to his ears earthling himself via a sponge to the lightning conductor on the roof. 1981
3. Big Ben, 2020, Machined brass armature, working clock mechanism with mechanical chimes, tin box of After Eights, tissue wrapped wafer, crystal etched globe of the world, illuminated on activation. 24¼ x 13½ x 13½ in
5. Sir Thomas Lipton, 2019, Forged steel armature, precision built motor drive, miniature heating element, various crustacean shells, original Lipton tea bag. 21¼ x 13¾ x 13¾ in
5. The World and Its Inhabitants I and II, 2022. Published by Christine Burgin, Edition of 30. 53 x 35 in
7. The World and Its Inhabitants ephemera, detail

#pauletiennelincoln

“The World and its inhabitants,” a project initiated in 1980 by Paul Etienne Lincoln, unfolds as a miniature theater of 75. (and counting) allegorical machines. First conceived as “a miniature circus, a salon divertissement,” the work activates characters encountered through literature, history, and private fascination. Lincoln constructs delicate effigies animated through intricate electrical and mechanical systems powered by champagne and a lead shoe. Once triggered, each figure performs a brief, singular spectacle, condensing its subject’s life into a fleeting gesture before returning to permanent stillness. Historically staged as intimate entremets presentations for dinner guests, the performances combine scientific apparatus with ritualized theater, transforming mechanical ingenuity into a stage for memory and imagination. Presented here alongside such figures as Igor Stravinsky and Big Ben are fragments of the project’s evolving archive—dedicated cards, posters, and other ephemera documenting its origins and many iterations—tracing a decades-long attempt to assemble explorers, magicians, musicians, animals, and spirits into what Lincoln describes as an ever-expanding world.

On view at Theta until this Saturday, May 2nd, are 6 of “The World” characters accompanied by ephemera from the project’s history. Period Piece closes this Saturday. Theta is open this week 12-6pm.

1. The World and its Inhabitants: The Copper Governor in full swing energizing Nextus II, 1982
2. The Ringmaster attaching pearl earrings to his ears earthling himself via a sponge to the lightning conductor on the roof. 1981
3. Big Ben, 2020, Machined brass armature, working clock mechanism with mechanical chimes, tin box of After Eights, tissue wrapped wafer, crystal etched globe of the world, illuminated on activation. 24¼ x 13½ x 13½ in
5. Sir Thomas Lipton, 2019, Forged steel armature, precision built motor drive, miniature heating element, various crustacean shells, original Lipton tea bag. 21¼ x 13¾ x 13¾ in
5. The World and Its Inhabitants I and II, 2022. Published by Christine Burgin, Edition of 30. 53 x 35 in
7. The World and Its Inhabitants ephemera, detail

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