Sam Branden

CHART is pleased to announce Alloy, our second solo exhibition with Brooklyn-based artist Sam Branden, presented offsite in collaboration with Pegasus at Love’s Club. Branden continues his exploration of material tension, urban texture, and structural hybridity through seven new constructions. An opening reception will be held on Friday, October 24, from 6–9 pm. The exhibition will remain on view through December 20, 2025, with Sunday hours from 1–5 pm and by appointment.

Alloy investigates the potential of mixture—industrial and elastic, rigid and malleable, found and fabricated. These works act as alloys of the urban landscape, forging new structures from the collision of texture, function, and meaning. Branden situates these hybrid forms as both material experiments and metaphors for the layered conditions of contemporary life. His signature use of hand-sewn textiles and stretched spandex creates a dynamic sense of tension: fabrics strain against frames, spill beyond borders, and crawl across walls—suggesting both containment and escape. In this state of expansion, the surfaces remain taut yet unstable, as if always on the verge of rupture. Through this physical intensity, Branden reveals the precarious balance between rigidity and flexibility, utility and excess, order and entropy.

Color plays a vital role in Alloy, where vibrant clashes and abrupt transitions generate a visual symphony that echoes the layered chaos of the urban environment. Mesh overlays, stitched seams, and improvised assemblages introduce rhythm and interruption, evoking the raw energy of city life—its density, its dissonance, and its constant flux.

About the Artist
Sam Branden (b. 1991, Cleveland, OH) received his BFA from the Columbus College of Art & Design in 2014. Solo exhibitions include CHART, New York, NY; Stowaway Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Beverly's, New York, NY; the Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH; and a recent two-person exhibition at Good Mother Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Group shows include Untitled Art Fair with CHART, Miami, FL; Harper’s books, New York, NY; darkZone, New Jersey; PRP Agency, Dallas, TX; Pangee, Montréal, QC; and Bible Gallery, New York, NY; among others. Branden was included in "Who's Who?" New York City edition (sponsored by Puma and Newco Studio, 2023), a hard-backed publication highlighting 75 notable downtown creatives. Branden lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

About Pegasus at Love’s Club
Love’s Club, located at 106 Melrose Street, Brooklyn, opened May 2025. Founded by Jane Love, the 7,000-square-foot venue is conceived as a genre-blurring space that combines a concert hall, cocktail bar, and community hub. This collaboration debuts the first project in the gallery space, Pegasus.

We are excited to announce our participation in Untitled Art, Miami Beach 2024 with a group presentation of new works by Sam Branden, Whitney Oldenburg, Esther Ruiz, Leslie Smith III and Vincent Szarek. Hours December 3rd, 2024 - Preview Day: Invitation Only Wednesday, December 4th: 11am - 7pm Thursday, December...

Urban life, specifically navigating and surviving the boroughs of New York City, has long fascinated Branden, who has roots in street fashion and graffiti culture. Simultaneously, the artist originally hails from the Midwest, with his formative years spent immersed in the splendor of the natural world. This dichotomy of influence is central to the metaphorical underpinnings of DOGBANE, which takes its title from the fibrous flowering shrub whose stems can be used to make rope and thread but is also notorious for poisoning surrounding wildlife.

CHART is pleased to present Facture Fracture, a group exhibition featuring new paintings by Sam Branden, Kadar Brock, Shayna Miller, and Jack Arthur Wood. The works in Facture Fracture explore the potential of manipulated painterly surfaces as a way of communicating abstract ideas, demonstrating how accumulated influences and affects can only be pared down so far, and how future evolutions are inherently built on that which came before. The exhibition will open with a reception on Wednesday, June 26, from 6–8pm, and will remain on view through Friday, August 23.