The Principal Cause of Serial Monogamy

Tara Downs New York · Tribeca / SoHo

Tara Downs presents The Principal Cause of Serial Monogamy—a Cooper Brovenick–curated group show after Breton’s L’Amour Fou. Cross-generational works by Agematsu, Benglis, Burnell, Chance, Dennison, Flaugher, Hussey, Kutateladze, Lacroix, Moritz, and Simpson treat abstraction as love’s paradox: mystery and solution at once. Temporality, desire, and formlessness against constraint.

Artist

Violet Dennison

Violet Dennison (b. 1989, Bridgeport, US) trained as a sculptor and works across painting and installation in a formal language that entwines the mechanical, human, and digital. Her paintings and objects function like screens — vibrating beneath their surfaces as pigment is dragged, dissolved, or overwritten by technological processes. Embedded in these dynamics are questions about how ecological, social, and technological systems shape perception. Her recent works trace the mutating form of the Jacob's Ladder, a recurring floral cipher that stands in for the instability of language, memory, and code. Dennison received her BFA from New York University (2011) and MFA from Bard College (2018). Recent exhibitions include Kiang Malingue, New York (2025); Tara Downs, New York (2024); Ilenia, London (2024); Jan Kaps, Cologne (2023); Theta, New York (2021); Kunstverein Freiburg (2019); Kunsthalle Stavanger (2019); the Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (2018); and the New Museum Triennial: *Songs for Sabotage* (2018).