Exhibition Dates: January 27 – February 21, 2026
Opening Reception: Thurs., January 29, 2026, 5PM-8PM
Artist Talk: Saturday, February 14, 2026, 3PM-4PM
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11AM-6PM

Bowery Gallery is pleased to present “Cardinal Directions,” an exhibition of new sculpture by Robert Braczyk. 

For many years a prize-winning figurative sculptor, in recent years Braczyk has turned to abstraction. In his new work—most about 24 inches high—he assembles various tree elements into vertical compositions that echo figural forms, but whose abstract vocabulary of open volumes and discontinuous contours suggests the possibility of multiple allusions. Each work evinces a powerful spatial tension between the cardinal point from which it is begun and the complex three-dimensional image that Braczyk builds with primary thrust, axis, and meridian. 

Braczyk’s trajectory from figure to abstract figure may be seen as a temporal through line connecting the events of a life. The artist’s comment that he brings all his life’s experiences into the studio reminds us that in the long arc of his career, the spatial and temporal are never far apart.

View the exhibition website.

Bowery Gallery
547 W. 27th Street, Suite 508
New York, NY 10001