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EXHIBITIONS

  1. 8/15/26 - BRIAN SHARROCK: THE NIGHT SHIFT
  2. 10/10/26 - SACRED DOOM ENDLESS GLOOM: CURATED BY PHILIP HINGE





EVENTS
  1. 9/29/26 - AYMAN ASFOUR: LIVE @ THE NIGHT SHIFT
  2. 10/24/26 -THE HAUNTED FURNITURE STORE: WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY PETER B.D.



BRIAN SHARROCK: THE NIGHT SHIFT






Darker Than You Think, 2026

Embroidered canvas wrapped in walnut

41.75 x 33 x 1.5 in.

106 x 83.8 x 3.8 cm

Stalker, 2026

Embroidered canvas wrapped in walnut with padauk

16.625 x 13.25 x 1.5 in.

42.2 x 33.6 x 3.8 cm



Envoy of Beauty, 2026

Embroidered canvas wrapped in walnut with padauk

17.375 x 13.75 x 1.5 in.

44.1 x 34.9 x 3.8 cm





The Sound of Light Rain and Burning Leaves is the

Same, 2026

Embroidered canvas wrapped in walnut

34.875 x 24.625 x 1.5 in.

88.5 x 62.5 x 3.8 cm

Moon Landing or Death, 2026

Embroidered canvas wrapped in walnut

42.5 x 34 x 1.5 in.

107.9 x 86.3 x 3.8 cm

Photography by:  Phillip Hinge




AUGUST 15th - SEPTEMBER 29th 
The Night Shift is a collection of nocturnes. This motif is appropriate given the shifting legibility and magical transformations happening in Brian’s embroidered images. Things are less clear at night, shapes bend and change according to your imagination—you start seeing things. This is fertile ground for Brian. These night scenes are a place to play and continuously find something new the longer you look, for both the artist and the viewer. The dark, threaded surfaces are bordered by a band of waving raw canvas. A proposition, perhaps: Are these paintings, embroideries, or something else entirely?

Overlapping shapes of different opacities feel like a cross-dissolve transition in a film—one image bleeding into another, intersecting to form a glyph, a symbol, or possibly a rippled reflection on a body of water somewhere we’ve never been. Others are more straightforward: foreground, background, tree, stars, etc., with brightly colored threads poking through from previous layers, giving them a sense of shimmering light akin to Pierre Bonnard’s Montmartre in the Rain (1897). Stitched in different directions, the picture changes as you move around it. With this move, Brian brings you in further—you become aware of your head moving around the canvas searching for new information, if only to catch a glimpse.

You can feel the excitement in the making of these works—each one a small discovery, whether formal or psychological, leading to the next opportunity for Brian to broaden the articulation of his nightscapes. The willingness, even eagerness, to expand and follow his impulses gives Brian’s work its oomph. There is skill involved, of course, evident in the complexity of the sewn images and expertly crafted frames. It's hard not to see the labor in them. Laborious though they may be, the magic is in seeing Brian test his limits—and find new ways to see in the dark.

- Stefan Hoza


Brian Sharrock (b. 1988, Columbus, OH) is a visual artist based in New York City. Working primarily in embroidery, he creates paintings that draw on the visual language of symbols and emblems, shifting between representation and abstraction. His work has been featured in solo and two-person exhibitions at No Place Gallery (Columbus, OH), Los Ojos (Brooklyn, NY), and Dutton (New York, NY), as well as in numerous group exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally.