TURN Gallery is pleased to present Seven Days of Sunday, a group exhibition featuring Eve Ackroyd, Merrick Adams, Greg Burak, Li Jun, and Kate Pincus-Whitney. Each artist contributes intimate, small-scale works that together form a visual journal of personal Sunday moments, ranging from the figurative and quotidian to the fantastical, surreal, and abstracted.
In these paintings, Sundays unfold in fragments: a woman peacefully perched on a beach blanket engulfed in her book; a celebratory swirl of cocktails and cookbook possibilities; an ocean horizon breaking into glimmering light; a quiet coffee shared with an enigmatic guest; an oversized quail egg nestled in a lavish shell cup of tantalizing indulgence. Collectively, the canvases capture the tender, transient rituals that define and twist a classic languid Sunday. Seven Sundays invites viewers to surrender to the passage of time, ease into simple pleasures, and inhabit the unique worlds each artist creates—a shared chronicle of rest day reveries.
Eve Ackroyd paints women suspended between solitude and connection, rendered in softly saturated fields of color and sinuous, fluid forms. Her figures, at once aloof and relatable, inhabit moments of quiet interiority—gestures and glances charged with latent emotion. Ackroyd’s subjects occupy personal situations that resonate beyond the canvas, reflecting the delicate interplay between private experience and broader cultural contexts.
Merrick Adams’s oceanscapes summon an abstraction of light and the unknown through the merging of family history, nature, and method. Using netting as a matrix, Adams’s seascapes emerge from a meticulous layering of paint into a hypnotic tangle of rippling lines and segments of color rising and falling alive and in motion. With the ocean as a metaphor for consciousness, Adams’s paintings plunge the viewer into the depths of the unknown, offering a silent meditation.
Greg Burak’s paintings are meant to develop a psychological tone through formal means. Executed through a muted yet rich earthy palette, his figures are drawn from memory and invention. The attitudes of the figures support this overall tone in lieu of narrative, as their motives are often opaque. The pictures are arranged to emphasize points of visual tension in order to complicate otherwise quiet moments.
Li Jun investigates fairytales and the symbolism of domestic objects, subverting and heightening perceptions as if reflecting them in a magic mirror. Placing viewers within her surreal spaces, items are stripped of their context, time is suspended, and reality unfurls emphasizing irony and self reflection.
Kate Pincus-Whitney reveres the dinner table as a site of memory, identity, and communion. Her vibrant, maximalist tablescapes transform fish tins, cookbooks, and bottles of liquor into portraits of personal narratives and collective histories. With unapologetic, boisterous theatricality, she maps culture through the things we consume and surround ourselves with, revealing our existential, anthropological, and psychological connections to the material world.
Seven Days of Sunday will open in our Parlour Room Wednesday, September 10th, 2025 from 6 - 8 pm on 32 East 68th Street, 2nd Floor, NY, NY 10065. The exhibition will close on Saturday, October 25th, 2025. The gallery is open Wednesday - Saturday from 12 - 6 pm. For further information, contact Annika at ap@turngallerynyc.com.