Asya Geisberg Gallery is pleased to present “Hard as You Can, Right at the Middle”, an exhibition of works by Julia Bland and Daniel Petraitis. Julia Bland creates large-scale textile works that combine modern-day tapestries with un-stretched, stitched, and recombined painting supports. Daniel Petraitis’s diverse sculptures transform or recreate objects and forms found through our day-to-day experience, with remarkable finesse and craftsmanship. While markedly different in the media and scale of their work, these two artists share a love of nuanced and thoughtfully constructed surfaces, an interest in the symbolic uses of pattern, and a disruption of prevailing distinctions between art and...