07/05/2026
Red Giant is pleased to present The Right Hand Forgets the Left, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Ellie Works, opening Saturday, July 11th, from 6–9pm.
Works’ process is improvisational and accumulative, built from whatever is affordable and at hand: magazine images, oil paint, Dunkin’ cups, colored lamp shades, reproductions of 16th century paintings, chair legs. These materials are not so much selected as wrestled with, incorporated in response to the work as it develops. The resulting paintings are dense with contradiction, where icons, colors, desires, and found materials restlessly swap bodies and fold over themselves in ways that resist resolution. Works treats painting as a form that can sustain contradiction without falling apart, and finds in that capacity something close to a life ethic. Here doubt and discomfort are not obstacles to painting but its raw material.
The Right Hand Forgets the Left is on view July 11th–August 22nd, 2026 at Red Giant, 403 N. Paca St., Baltimore, MD 21201. Opening reception Saturday, July 11th, 6–9pm. Closing reception Saturday, August 22nd. To make an appointment, DM redgiantgallery, email [email protected], or call (410) 989-1430.