RIte McBride's installations, architectural models, and sculptural elements operate as structural frameworks within the exhibition space. Conduits in Murano glass, marble forms from Carrara, cast skylights, laminated wood templates, and stair-like constructions translate line into three-dimensional experience. These works guide movement and choreograph perception, shifting abstraction from the pictorial plane into lived space. Balancing industrial precision with minimalist clarity, McBride questions the boundaries between art, construction, and design.
Selected paintings by Nassos Daphnis provide a historical counterpoint. His Hard-Edge compositions—defined by planes of color and exact linear divisions—establish a two-dimensional logic of structure and surface. In contrast, McBride extends this geometry into the architectural realm, transforming optical abstraction into spatial and bodily encounter.
By combining two seemingly distant practices for the first time, Abstract Constructions, Nassos Daphnis – Rita McBride reveals unexpected dialogues between form and concept, opening a shared space that oscillates between functionality and poetry, authority and freedom.
