Opening reception: Thursday April 17, from 6:00 to 8:00.
The exhibition will be on view April 17 - May 17, 2008.

Jacobson Howard Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of recent work by Frank Stella. Stella's new work titled "K Series" are elegant wall mounted stainless steel spirals with fiberglass sculptural elements based on Domenico Scarlatti’s sonatas.

The titles are named after Scarlatti's five hundred and fifty-five keyboard sonatas. As in all of Stella’s work, the sonatas provide only a structure from which an independent series is formed. Nonetheless the forms are a response to the music they are inspired by, looping and spiraling in space. So too, the intricate shadows the works cast resonate like fading notes.

The sonatas are single movements, mostly in binary form, and are almost all intended for the harpsichord. Only a small fraction of Scarlatti's compositions were published during his lifetime. Renowned harpsichordist and Scarlatti scholar, Ralph Kirkpatrick, became associated with the sonatas, and the numbering from his edition nearly always used the “K” number.

The subtle shift in the composition of Stella’s work, like the sonatas, is simple and graceful.

For further information, please contact the gallery at (212) 570-2362 or gallery@jacobsonhoward.com.