Friday, December 19 // Extended Gallery Social Hours
Join us in the Gallery any time  4 - 8pm to grab a drink, get cozy, and socialize as you immerse yourself in our Third Space exhibit. Stop by our community bar, 3S Barspace, for a cocktail or mocktail and settle into your favorite winter retreat inside the exhibit: The Après Ski Lounge, The Garden, or The Listening Room.

Saturday, December 20
3S Barspace inside the Third Space exhibit will be open during normal Gallery hours: 11am - 6pm!

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Ecorhizome Stories


Ezra Wube

February 6 - March 29, 2026 | Opening Reception / Meet the Artist: Friday, February 6 / 5-8pm

Our 2026 Gallery season at 3S Artspace opens with artist Ezra Wube, whose work blends stop-motion animation, painting, collage, and community storytelling. His films move between mythology, environmental reflection, and everyday life — always asking how we imagine the places we belong to. Wube's animated works in Ecorhizome Stories explore climate, culture, and collective imagination. 

Ecorhizome Stories

Artist Statement


Ezra Wube's work combines tactile analog mediums and digital media to explore experiences of mobility and the malleability of time and place. These fragmentations are reconciled through the storytelling aspects of his work, as a means to connect multiple realities.

While collaging his past with present experiences, he attempts to make a third entity that is in both the past and the present in which place and time are continuously shifting.

Artist Bio

Ezra Wube (Brooklyn, NY)

Ezra Wube (b. 1980, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) is a cross-disciplinary artist who lives and works in New York. His practice encompasses video, drawing, painting, and installation. His work explores experiences of mobility, the malleability of time and place, and the dialogical tensions between here and there, tracing the confluence of prior and present influences on social idealism, pluralism, and autonomy.

His exhibition includes at Dak’Art Biennale, Dakar, Senegal (2024, 2014); the 21st Contemporary Art Biennial Sesc Videobrasil, Brazil (2018); the Biennale d’Architecture d’Orléans, France (2019); Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2018); Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia (2018); Art in General, New York; Kim Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia (2015); The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2016); Ottawa International Animation Festival, Canada (2011); Annecy International Animation Film Festival, France (2012); and Times Square Arts Midnight Moment, New York (2021, 2013).

His residencies, commissions, and awards include Art at Amtrak, New York (2025); The High Line, New York; Education Lab at the Zuckerman Institute, Columbia University, New York (2024); the Michael Richards Visual Arts Award (2022); the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York (2019); The Wolfsonian Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida (2017); Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, New York (2014); the Rema Hort Mann Foundation (2014); Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York (2013, 2017); Smack Mellon Studio Program, Brooklyn (2020); Pioneer Works, Brooklyn (2019); Open Sessions Program at The Drawing Center, New York (2017); The Africa Center, New York (2020); Triangle Arts Association Residency, Brooklyn (2015); and The Substation Artist Residency Program, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (2011). Since 2015, Ezra has organized the Addis Video Art Festival in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He is a part time Assistant Professor at Parsons School of Design and Brooklyn College in New York.

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Figure 7 / Shaina Gates / 2021 / 6.5x6x2.5 / $400

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Figure 20 / Shaina Gates / 2021 / 10x9x3 / $500

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Figure 12 / Shaina Gates / 2021 / 5x5x3 / $400

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Figure 164 / Shaina Gates / 2022 / 9x8x2 / $500

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3S Artspace is supported in part by grants from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation and NHCF's Geoffrey E. Clark and Martha Fuller Clark Fund; Horizon Foundation; and Little Bay Fund.


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