P·P·O·W is pleased to present Rhizome St. / Fugue Avenue, mosie romney’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Working in the space between figuration and abstraction, romney uses painting as a portal through which to explore themes of self-perception and polychronic time. Often beginning with collage, romney stages fantasy worlds that disrupt our notions of reality, memory, and symbolic order. An introduction to a new body of work, Rhizome St. / Fugue Avenue immerses the viewer in an imaginary place of both rupture and renewal. With a new cast of characters, romney envisions the psychology of alienation and placelessness, taking the viewer on a flight of the unreasonable towards spiritual transformation.

mosie romney (b. 1994) lives and works between Ridgewood, Queens, and the Hudson Valley, New York. They received their BFA in Visual Art from SUNY Purchase in 2016 and have completed residencies with the Home School, Hudson, NY; Pocoapoco, Oaxaca City, MX; Painters Painting Paintings, Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Mahler & LeWitt Studios, Spoleto, Italy, among others. Their work is in the permanent collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; Pond Society, Shanghai, China; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; and the Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China. romney’s work has been included in exhibitions at White Columns, New York, NY; Nicodim, Bucharest, RO, Los Angeles, CA, and New York, NY; Greene Naftali, New York, NY; Gern en Regalia, New York, NY; Almine Rech, London, UK, and New York, NY; Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY; Fine Arts Center Gallery at University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR; and Luce Gallery, New York, NY. Their work has been featured in articles in BOMB Magazine, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, and Juxtapoz, among others. Expanding upon Rhizome St. / Fugue Avenue, romney’s first large-scale exhibition with the gallery will open in September 2024.