ellipses is a multi-part exhibition organized by Adams and Ollman in Portland and Romance in Pittsburgh that will evolve over time and across both galleries. The project began with a shared desire for a different way of bringing artworks together—aimed at extended conversation and unhurried exchange, following intuition and building from what the works themselves create once they're together in a room. Like ellipses, which denote omissions, pauses in speech, trailing thoughts, or suspense—or an ellipse (singular), mathematically defined as the set of points where the sum of distances to two fixed points is constant—the project builds from fragmentation and extension, accumulating slowly through focus, repetition, variation, and revelation.  

The exhibition opens at Adams and Ollman with painting, sculpture, and installation by an intergenerational group of artists who have been part of Romance's program or otherwise share affinities with both galleries' curatorial lens. It continues at Romance in the fall with a new group of works informed, but not determined, by the artists, ideas, contexts, and histories that came before at Adams and Ollman—culminating for a moment before moving on to its next expression. Sequencing and duration, between present and past, or the cadence from one place or time to another, become the show's walls, with no predetermined conclusion. A small text will accompany each installation, and a final essay when ellipses feels finished.