A Line, A Shape, A Tool
May 23 - July 5, 2026
Opening Reception: May 23, 2026, 4-6PM
Geary is pleased to present A Line, A Shape, A Tool, a group exhibition featuring work by Sun You, Pooneh Maghazehe, Russell Maltz and William Corwin. The show will be on view May 23, 2026 – July 5, 2026 with an opening reception on May 23 from 4-6PM.
Works
Pooneh Maghazehe
Trick, 2026
Fiberglass, paper pulp, Leak Seal, tire shavings, house paint, MTA light fixture, stool, Persian kilim
16 x 20 x 54 in.
A Line, A Shape, A Tool
Pooneh Maghazehe
Trick, 2026
Fiberglass, paper pulp, Leak Seal, tire shavings, house paint, MTA light fixture, stool, Persian kilim
16 x 20 x 54 in.
Pooneh Maghazehe
Wet Dolphin, 2024
Hot glue, fiberglass, acrylic paint, children’s play bar, pool toy, Leak Seal, plaster, brown lunch bags, pet, feeding tray, steel
24 x 36 x 42 in.
A Line, A Shape, A Tool
Pooneh Maghazehe
Wet Dolphin, 2024
Hot glue, fiberglass, acrylic paint, children’s play bar, pool toy, Leak Seal, plaster, brown lunch bags, pet, feeding tray, steel
24 x 36 x 42 in.
A Line, A Shape, A Tool
Russell Maltz
ACCU-FLO, 2026
Lumber, plywood, paint, and fasteners
Dimensions variable
A Line, A Shape, A Tool
Russell Maltz
ACCU-FLO, 2026
Lumber, plywood, paint, and fasteners
Dimensions variable
Russell Maltz
BallPark # VLIX, 2025
Enamel and acrylic on glass and wood, stacked on aluminum brackets
14 x 7¾ in.
A Line, A Shape, A Tool
Russell Maltz
BallPark # VLIX, 2025
Enamel and acrylic on glass and wood, stacked on aluminum brackets
14 x 7¾ in.
Pooneh Maghazehe
Pelican on the Floor, 2022
Fiberglass, foam board, spray foam, paper pulp, lunch bags, Flex Seal, house paint, resin putty, spray paint, joint compound, wood glue, shellac
24 x 32 x 28 in.
A Line, A Shape, A Tool
Pooneh Maghazehe
Pelican on the Floor, 2022
Fiberglass, foam board, spray foam, paper pulp, lunch bags, Flex Seal, house paint, resin putty, spray paint, joint compound, wood glue, shellac
24 x 32 x 28 in.
Sun You
No Title, 2026
Acrylic paint on ceramic, wire, magnets, acrylic paint on canvas, beads, silk pins, plastic flowers
Variable size
A Line, A Shape, A Tool
Sun You
No Title, 2026
Acrylic paint on ceramic, wire, magnets, acrylic paint on canvas, beads, silk pins, plastic flowers
Variable size
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Sun You
No Title, 2026
Acrylic paint on ceramic, wire, magnets, acrylic paint on canvas, beads, silk pins, plastic flowers
Variable size
A Line, A Shape, A Tool
Sun You
No Title, 2026
Acrylic paint on ceramic, wire, magnets, acrylic paint on canvas, beads, silk pins, plastic flowers
Variable size
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A Line, A Shape, A Tool
William Corwin
Artemis/Gorgon #1, 2025
Cast iron
36½ x 10½ x 22½ in.
William Corwin is a sculptor and writer who has shown his work widely in New York City and in Europe.
A graduate of Princeton University, where he studied architecture, Will has exhibited his work at LaMama Galleria, Zurcher Gallery, Geary Contemporary and The George and Jorgen Gallery in London. Residencies include: the State Department Artist Residency at the Taipei Artist’s Village (2007), The Clocktower Gallery (2010), The Hamburg City Guest Artist Residency (2010), Art Omi (2014), Lower Manhattan Workspace Residency on Governors Island (2014). Museum shows include Roots/Anchors in at The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor, a four person show featuring the work of Shervone Neckles, Katie Holten, and Xaviera Simmons, with exhibition catalog essay by Lucy Lippard.
In 2019 he curated Postwar Women at The Art Students League, an exhibition of forty-four of the institution’s alumnae active between 1945 and 1965, featuring artists such as Lee Krasner, Lenita Manrey, Mavis Pusey, Perle Fine, Elizabeth Catlett, and Dorothy Dehner. He has also curated a series of exhibitions centering on the midcentury French painters Marguerite Louppe and Maurice Brianchon, at Lafayette College, Albright College, and Seton Hall University, and most recently this past spring and summer at Rosenberg & Co. He is the author of the book &Model, published by Leeds Metropolitan University, and is the editor of the book: Formal Concerns: Collected essays of Saul Ostrow, published by Elective Affinity Press in 2023. He was recently included in three of Phong Bui’s exhibitions, Singing in Unison.
You has exhibited her work in galleries and museums internationally. Selected exhibition venues include Lafayette College, Pennsylvania, Geary, New York, The Pit, Los Angeles, Queens Museum, New York, The Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, Scotty Enterprise, Berlin, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, and The Suburban, Chicago.
You was an artist in residence at Hunter College, Ace Hotel, Marble House Project, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Triangle Arts Association, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral and the Sharpe and Walentas Studio Program. She is one of three recipients of the Korean Art Foundation, AHL Contemporary Visual Art Award 2022.
You’s work has been featured in many publications including Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB Magazine, Hyperallergic, Korea Times, Modern Painters and Widewalls.
You heads President Clinton Projects, a curatorial project and co-runs an artist collective gallery, Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York.
Russell Maltz is a sculpture artist based in NYC.
Maltz (b.1952, Brooklyn, NY) received his MFA from Long Island University, C.W. Post College in 1979. He has exhibited his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally since 1976, including in Australia, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Sweden, Israel, Denmark, Mexico, Switzerland, Japan and New Zealand. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, Arts Magazine, Tema Celeste, Hyperallergic, Two Coats of Paint, Miami Rail, Kunst Forum International, Tussle, The Village Voice, The Brooklyn Rail, Bomb and White Hot Magazine. Maltz’s works are in the collections of The Brooklyn Museum, Yale University Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museum, Kunstraum-Alexander Burkle-PEAC Freiburg, Germany, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, Saarland Museum, Saarbrucken, Germany, Stiftung fur Konkreter Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany, Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany, Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia and The Bridgehampton Museum. A survey exhibition exploring 40 years of Maltz’s work was mounted by the Stadtgalerie, Saarbrucken, and Galerie Michael Sturm in Stuttgart, Germany. The exhibition was accompanied by a monogram book covering the first 40 years of his work from 1976 through 2017 and published by The Stadtgalerie Saarbrucken.
Pooneh Maghazehe is a Brooklyn-based sculptor.
Notable solo presentations include “Double Barrel” at Martos After Dark, “Half-Time” at KinoSaito Art Center in Verplank, NY and “2for1” at Brennan & Griffin Gallery in New York, NY. Select group exhibitions include “Global Contemporary : Art Worlds After 1989” at ZKM Center for Art and Media, “Transnational Aesthetics” 798 Biennal at BTAP Gallery, Etiquette for Lucid Dreaming” Gateway II at Newark Penn Station and “Iran Inside Out”
at DePaul University Museum. Her work has been featured in Artforum, BmoreArt, Contemporary Practices, Flaunt Magazine, Art Asia Pacific Magazine and Magazine 1. Pooneh received an MFA in Visual Art from Columbia University in 2011.