Rohini Devasher
Sol Drawings
January 16–March 2, 2024
436 Jackson Street, San Francisco, CA

The copper on Earth formed through the explosion of stars, which catapulted the metal onto our planet more than four billion years ago. Using this material from the cosmos, Rohini Devasher (b. 1978, New Delhi, India) adorns copper sheets with markings inspired by astrophotography through interventions like acid washing, embossment, and fumage, or the natural impressions of candle smoke. Devasher's use of this latter technique pays homage to the gallery's modern artist Wolfgang Paalen, who invented fumage in 1936. Intricate and luminous, these works with copper invite close-looking and contemplation.

This exhibition is concurrently on view with Devasher’s first U.S. solo institutional exhibition, One Hundred Thousand Suns, at the Minnesota Street Project Foundation at 1201 Minnesota Street.