AN INCONSISTENT TRIAD Genevieve Goffman, Bri Griffin, Ruby Bailey

EXHIBITION
23 May – June 2026 Visit (Newburgh),
9 Chambers st, Newburgh, New York, 12550

Visit is pleased to present An Inconsistent Triad, a three-person exhibition bringing together new and recent works by Genevieve Goffman, Bri Griffin, and Ruby Bailey. The exhibition opens 23 May at Visit's Newburgh space, with artist talks taking place ahead of the opening on Thursday, 14 May at Visit's Bushwick location at 1196 Myrtle Avenue.

Curated by Bailey in dialogue with the gallery, the exhibition takes its name from a logic problem in which any two propositions can hold together, but never all three at once. Across painting, sculpture, and cast objects, the three practices share an instinct more than a method: each makes things that carry the appearance of artefacts while withholding the keys to the worlds that produced them.

Goffman draws from ancient pastoral poetry, 19th-century American allegory, and the traditions of narrative and socialist realism to build works in which symbols circulate without resolution. Her lightbox A Woman Who Never Sleeps takes John Gast's American Progress (1872) as its source, the painting's ideology mirrored and scattered, its westward-marching angel recast as what Goffman calls "an ouroboric ghost."

Griffin calls her objects tablets, a word that places them in a long history of inscription. Cast in wax and dyed resin, the works read simultaneously as medieval illumination, circuit diagrams, root systems, and internet-native sigils. Her Chasing the Shadows of Transparent PNGs takes a web-native image format defined by its own absence and gives it weight, opacity, and duration.

Bailey's work operates as encryption. A personal archive of diary fragments, recurring symbols, and privately coded drawings is cast in resin, and painted and cut into metal surfaces. Stone Tool – Solid Air begins with a 500 000 year old hand axe found on a South African nature reserve, cast in clear resin with suspended electronic components. She is playing hide and seek, with time and place, secrets and references.

The exhibition's two locations mirror something of the show's own logic: two points that belong to the same body of thought, separated by geography, held together by the same instinct. Viewers are encouraged to begin with the artist talks in Bushwick on May 14, 23, and June 4th May, then follow the show to its home at Visit in Newburgh, where the works are on view from 27 May.