Turn Gallery is pleased to present LANDLINE, a group exhibition featuring Leonard Baby, Bernie Kaminski, Karyn Lyons, and Gösta Peterson, opening March 5th, 2025, from 6 - 8 pm.

The steady ring of a rotary phone only to discover the answering machine is full. Sharpening a pencil to note an address and time. Do I ask if he plays tennis, or should we catch a double feature instead? The weight of small moments once individually poignant and now lost in time are the echoes of nostalgia that shape LANDLINE. From the quiet solitude of playing a board game alone to the thrill of a developed roll of film, this exhibition recalls familiar fragments—personal yet universal—of a world where patience, privacy, and tactile experiences defined daily life. In an age of virtual connectivity, this exhibition asks: How did we once relate to time, objects, and each other? What is left behind?

Working across painting, photography, and sculpture, these four artists immerse audiences in the rituals of the past: patching a pair of 501 jeans, checking a payphone for a forgotten quarter, making Friday night mixtapes, flipping through the TV Guide in search of something to watch. Spanning multiple generations, the LANDLINE artists memorialize an immersive dialogue between past and present. By blending imagery from personal memory, cinema, fashion, and advertising, they recreate the pace, style, and aesthetics of a time before technological acceleration. Each piece enhances the others, distilling a collective memory of longing, spontaneity, and waiting—for a letter to arrive, for the radio to play your song, for the landline to ring.

Leonard Baby (b. 1996), often drawing from mid-century European cinema, captures snapshots of intimate, melancholic moments with at times obscured subjects to open uncertainty. His combination of warm, soft tones and rich, suffused lighting imbues his objects and figures with both nostalgia and tension. Each painting feels like a fragment of a larger mysterious narrative, presenting space for curiosity and interpretation of the viewer.

Bernie Kaminski’s (b. 1966) meticulously formed paper mâché sculptures transform distinct everyday objects of the past into celebratory flashback-inducing recognitions. While maintaining a sense of whimsy, his inanimate belongings such as toiletries, clothing, electronics and sporting goods carry the viewer joyfully down memory lane. By recreating these familiar yet fading artifacts, Kaminski invites renewed awareness of commonplace goods and our settings they once belonged to.

Karyn Lyons (b. 1966) blends reality and fantasy to depict the interiority of her teenage years. Weaving cultural, art historical, and sartorial references, she depicts autobiographical and fictional worlds where childhood imagination meets adult possibilities. Through her sensual lush layers of paint, Lyons explores the desires and loneliness rooted in these formative years, developing out of the books, movies, television, and music we embraced.

Gösta (Gus) Peterson (1923-2017), one of the most innovative and progressive fashion photographers of the 1960s to 1980s, is known for breaking established barriers and challenging conventional approaches to fashion photography. A marked departure from his era's photographers, he brought models out of the studio and into the streets, creating graphic, spontaneous compositions with a reportage sensibility that set new industry standards. A natural storyteller, Peterson drew inspiration from the improvisational style of jazz musicians, always looking to capture not just the moment in front of him but also the how the story carries on beyond the picture plane.

LANDLINE will open Wednesday March 5th from 6 - 8 pm. We are located on the 2nd floor of 32 East 68th Street NY, NY 10065. The gallery is open Wednesday - Saturday 12 - 6 pm. For further information, contact Annika Peterson at ap@turngallerynyc.com.