Terty Haggerty’s bedazzling paintings and sculptures play with our perception, in a manner often misper­ceived as simply optical. But rather than relying on well trodden paths his pieces are far more ambiguous and occupy a space that teeters on the edge between illusion and abstraction.

Their pure and geometric appearance hides a series of complex compositional structures that result in works, which are in the best sense of the word obsessive. Repetitive patterns have been the dirty little secret of reductive vocabulary for decades.

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