315 Gallery is pleased to present The Nervous Hand, a two-person exhibition featuring new works by New York-based artists Fabienne Lasserre and Ezra Tessler.

The show consists of Lasserre's large freestanding sculptures and Tessler's small shaped paintings. Each work is two-faced. Lasserre’s massive double-mugged tears confront the viewer on one side and conceal themselves on the other. Seen from one angle they are monumental but step to the side and they become sheer, barely there. Meanwhile, Tessler’s modest paintings fold inwards and outwards toward the viewer. Rough-hewn forms cross the paintings' bright surfaces, offering condensed panoramas of unfa- miliar places and dimensions. For both artists, these objects face out but turn away: they want it both ways. As objects and images they depict many things at once: frames, mounds, arrows, drops, loopholes, and vistas for seeing in and around. Their overworked surfaces reflect the efforts of Lasserre and Tessler to carve out a place in a world filled with pleasure, sadness, anger, fear, and hope.