Polyrhythm

LSS NYC

“Polyrhythm”

2026 February 6 to March 15

Long Story Short NYC is pleased to present Polyrhythm, a group exhibition featuring works by Jackson Daughety, Grace Horan, and Magnus Krysto, on view February 6 - March 15, 2026 at 52 Henry Street, New York, NY 10002.

Inspired by the musical idea of layered rhythms, Polyrhythm brings together three artists working across different materials and visual languages. While each follows a distinct internal pace, their works share a sensitivity to how images, objects, and everyday fragments come together to form meaning. Across the exhibition, multiple moments and perspectives unfold within a single work—Magnus Krysto’s tiled scenes gather fragments of everyday life into clustered narratives, Jackson Daughety’s stitched canvases hold shifting viewpoints within a single subject, and Grace Horan’s glass and assemblage works collect recurring forms and images across different times and contexts—creating a visual rhythm that resonates from piece to piece.

Jackson Daughety approaches painting and collage through the lens of internet culture and image politics, drawing from the vast visual economy of the digital world. His work explores how myths of abundance, prosperity, and power circulate online, stretching familiar imagery to reveal the fragile fictions woven into contemporary life. Through appropriation and layered composition, Daughety’s paintings become speculative spaces where digital excess and lived reality meet. In Polyrhythm, he presents three recent works—Charged Lemonade (2025), FanDuel (2025), and Here in My Garage (2024)—executed in ink and acrylic on stitched linen and canvas, reflecting his belief that “the culture of images is stretched to a breaking point in order to fill in the narrative gaps. ”

Grace Horan Grace Horan works primarily with leaded clear glass and collage, combining stained-glass techniques with collected images to create sculptural forms that function as physical archives. Drawing from online image spaces, nature photos, stickers, toys, animals, and abandoned blogs, her practice treats images as objects that can be gathered and embedded into material form. In dialogue with the history of stained glass and consumer objects such as Tiffany lamps, Horan builds meaning through irregularity and assemblage. In Polyrhythm, her illuminated works extend this language into functional pieces, where light activates layers of image and object and the boundary between sculpture and utility gently gives way.

Magnus Krysto approaches ceramics as a form of visual note-taking, treating each tile as a page in an unfolding diary. Drawing and scratching directly into clay, he captures small episodes, fragments, and moods from everyday life, assembling them into compositions that balance order and chance. In Polyrhythm, his framed ceramic works—such as Parable of the Weeds, Let’s Run Away!, and Everyday Arguments (2026)—invite viewers to read their surfaces as partial stories. As Krysto notes, “each tile holds a small moment, a hint of a story, maybe even a joke, though the full plot is never quite revealed. ”

Jackson Daughety is a Kansas City–based artist exploring image culture and internet politics through painting and collage. He holds a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and has been featured in New American Paintings, KC Studio, and Newcity Art.

Grace Horan is a Brooklyn-based multimedia artist working with leaded clear glass and assemblage to create sculptural “physical archives” of digital and everyday imagery. She received a BFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2021.

Magnus Krysto is a ceramic artist whose hand-worked tile compositions function as visual diaries, assembling fragments of everyday life into quiet, narrative-driven works.