Miguel Abreu Gallery is pleased to announce Sequence 8: one work, one or two weeks, an exhibition wherein, over the course of two months, a single artwork will be on view at our 36 Orchard Street space for the duration of one or two weeks. This sequencing of objects by various artists articulated over time constitutes a break from the traditional group show in which works are relationally installed in space rather than time. This iteration of the show will begin with a painting by Alex Carver; it was followed by a work by Florian Pumhösl, sculptures by Rochelle Goldberg, and now drawings by Raha Raissnia. The next artist’s work will be announced on the day preceding its unveiling./// “All the drawings in this multipart work are derived and informed by a set of 35mm slides I selected from an archive of hundreds of images I’ve made over the years. These particular slides are not part of any film works. They are produced through careful cutting, layering and painting of pieces of 35mm film that were shot with a still film camera, combined with found footage and painted clear leader that are set in glass slide mounts. Before executing the drawings, I scanned the slides and worked on them in Photoshop, and then printed them using a black and white laser printer. Once printed, I cut up parts, rearranged and altered them further. I then transferred the resulting images onto paper using a gel medium. I then sanded out, erased, and drew into them with ink, color pencil, charcoal, and gel medium for texture. The final work on paper is a translation or an interpretation of the film image into what can be called a drawing. Alluvius alludes to patterns of soil formed and deposited by the flow of a stream. The title functions as a kind of metaphor for this process of translation between film and drawing – a kind of residue taking shape through the flow of energy or activity.” – Raha Raissnia