“Possession,” an art exhibition featuring the work of Alan Vega, closes on October 19 at Snow Gallery in Brooklyn.
At Snow Gallery, Possession functions as a practice of transmission. Each artist channels an unseen presence, their work float with energy that feels borrowed and fully renewed. Vega’s influence resists memorialization and imitation. It lingers as a haunting force, demanding attention and presence. The term possession implies both control and surrender, ownership and release. What we find in the gallery resembles a collective séance, a space where creation emerges through being overtaken. The body and the image respond to forces that insist on expression, producing work that speaks from beyond the conscious will of the artists.
Raúl de Nieves (b. 1983, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico) is a multimedia artist, performer, and musician based in Brooklyn, NY. His work blends Mexican vernacular and Catholic iconography with references to drag, fantasy, craft, and ritual. De Nieves often transforms modest, everyday or discarded materials, beads, sequins, tape, found clothing, into ornate sculptures, immersive environments, and performance objects.
Adrienne Greenblatt (b. 1995, Reading, UK) is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist, curator, and poet. Working across glass, performance, and sound, their practice draws from alchemy, the body, and esotericism. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with further training at UrbanGlass, Greenblatt has presented work at Blade Study, The Hole, M. Leblanc, and KAJE, and co-runs the sound project nochipa with Ren Sanchez.
Jake Latakas Orrall is an interdisciplinary artist, composer, archivist, and producer/engineer based in the United States. Born in Boston in 1986, Orrall’s creative path spans music, visual arts, and experimental sound practices. He co-founded the Earthbound Sound studio in 2021 and continues to evolve his work through sound experiments, visual media, and performance.
Thomas DeLaney (b. 1977, Tallahassee, FL) is a New York-based multimedia artist whose work merges painting, drawing, and digital media. A graduate of Florida State University (BFA in Studio Art), DeLaney reconfigures visual data from film, television, and digital imagery to reflect on absence, identity, and loss. His practice of appropriation destabilizes familiar images, revealing unconscious impulses and fragments of contemporary visual excess.
Alan Vega (born Alan Bermowitz; June 23, 1938 – July 16, 2016) was a New York–based musician and visual artist, best known as one half of the proto-punk duo Suicide. Trained at Brooklyn College with mentors like Ad Reinhardt, Vega began his career in visual art, creating light sculptures and image-based works.
Closing October 19th. 7pm-10pm
8PM PERFORMANCE
Possesion on view through October 19, 2025.
Snow Gallery
430 Via Vespucci, New York 11211