Viktor Timofeev and Jeremy Olson

NADA New York
Starrett-Lehigh Building
601 West 26th St, New York NY
May 7-11, 2025

The Sphinx is pleased to present works by Jeremy Olson and Viktor Timofeev at NADA New York, including paintings, sculpture and works on paper.

Jeremy Olson (b. 1976) creates detailed and atmospheric panel paintings that explore interiors and architectures that span familiar locations (swimming pools, playgrounds, work-out rooms) and evocative, mysterious alien personas and tools. His paintings establish cinematic views into our relationship with the experiences and products of techno-capital, which may be reframed as we find alien protocols cloaked in day to day rituals and familial cohabitations of spaces and routines. Olson’s sculptures are created with detailed model-building techniques, mimicking both bodies and architectures. These works include allusions to the dialog of technology, futurism, architecture and the post-human, where, for example, appendages may become hallways that end in USB ports rather than doors.

Viktor Timofeev ’s (b. 1984) recent exploration of graphite drawings are reminiscent of sublime landscapes, with clouds of ethereal material stirring and pooling on paper in a manner that recalls romantic sketches such as those by Victor Hugo or J.W.M. Turner. On closer inspection the works find subtle disturbances of naturalism by locating metaphoric systems of computation, such as staircases that allow for directed human interaction, or binary gates that hint at digital logic. We are invited to experience the intermingling of sublimity with the force of computation and its effect on human experience, as a portal to outcomes we cannot foresee or control.