ABABAB by Ryan Cosbert, Luke O’Halloran, and Beatrice Scaccia Installation view
ABABAB unites divergent aesthetics through a common rhythm of repetition—where pattern becomes memory, illusion becomes code, and artifice becomes truth.
ABABAB brings together three distinct artistic voices—Ryan Cosbert, Luke O’Halloran, and Beatrice Scaccia—in a dialogue structured around repetition, pattern, and symbolic form. Despite their contrasting aesthetics and thematic concerns, each artist employs recurrence as a visual strategy, creating an interplay of order, chance, and identity.
Ryan Cosbert condenses political memory into minimalist, grid-like compositions layered with geometric shapes and found materials. Her work reflects on generational trauma within the African diaspora, embedding personal history within communal experience.
Luke O’Halloran captures the poetic tension of chance and control through surreal depictions of playing cards, teetering structures, and suspended moments. His work transforms visual repetition into a coded language of instability and illusion.
Beatrice Scaccia explores the theatricality of feminine identity through deconstructed elements of costume and artifice—wigs, jewelry, and props divorced from their original context. Her satirical compositions reflect on beauty, performance, and the grotesque undertones of social aesthetics.
Together, the three artists build a rhythmic and reflective exhibition that elevates divergence into harmony through the shared use of repetition and symbolic language.