Opening Saturday — Woody De Othello ‘Maybe tomorrow’ Karma is pleased to present Maybe tomorrow, an exhibition of sculptural work by Woody De Othello. The show is located at Karma’s 22 East 2nd Street location and will run from September 24th through November 5th, 2022. Maybe tomorrow takes its name from a catchy, unsettling 1971 tune by jazz musician Grant Green. The return of the song’s darkly melodic hook was often stuck in Woody De Othello’s head while he worked in his Bay Area studio. In Maybe tomorrow, the gallery becomes the site of an architectural intervention. Passing through the entrance to the gallery, a second doorway greets the viewer, behind which hides the exhibition. Inside, concrete floors and walls are covered up, transformed by wooden floorboards and vibrant green walls. Within them, Othello has created a site of transportation where a multitude of mise-en-scenes are staged, and the passage of time is replaced with a strange current. This immersive installation recalls Othello’s earliest sculptural works, made when he was still in his undergraduate years that were set in unexpected surroundings such as bodegas and barbershops. Othello’s process is intuitive. Beginning with seemingly mundane and domestic forms—clocks, calendars, phones, and box fans– Othello hones in on their emotionality, extrapolating on their curves and exaggerating their size. The result is often tubular, drooping, and coated in vibrant reds, purples, and magnetic blacks, imbued with the subterranean futurity of jazz. Figurative works join anthropomorphized objects. The rattling of a radiator is poised against a silent prayer; hands clasp together and ears decorate a vase; a dog sits like a deity. Domestic objects become repositories of psychic significance, resonant of nkisi, a West and Central African concept in which objects contain and release spiritual forces. For Othello, each work is a vessel, even when it is physically sealed. Woody De Othello
exhalation and praises, 2022
Bronze, ceramic, and glaze 
48 x 321⁄2 x 61 inches; 121.92 x 82.55 x 154.94 cm
Edition 3 of 3, 2AP @woodyothello #woodydeothello