Site 006. A Piano and Two Ballerina Mirrors
Sam Christian & Eamon King
October 3, 2026
Sternberg Park Handball Courts, Lorimer Street &, Boerum St., Brooklyn, NY 11206
Press Release
Site Service is pleased to present Site 006. A Piano and Two Ballerina Mirrors, a two-person exhibition featuring new works by Sam Christian and Eamon King. The one-day installation at a handball court in Brooklyn brings together two practices that share an orientation toward the outside — toward what gets left behind, what gets covered over, and what gets moved — while arriving at that shared ground through entirely different formal languages.
There is a long tradition in sculpture and painting of the found object as departure point — but what happens when the found is not an object so much as a surface, a history, a context? Both Sam Christian and Eamon King begin with material already embedded in social life: a grand piano abandoned on the Lower East Side, a set of ballet mirrors discarded from a school dance studio. Neither artist illustrates the origin. Instead, each works the material until it becomes something harder to name.
Sam Christian finds a grand piano on the street and, rather than reorienting it, leaves it exactly as it arrived: belly up, strapped to a dolly, revealing the underside of an instrument the world is not meant to see. He pairs it with a baby chair and steel rod — a deliverer for inscription — and the two objects fall into dialogue across stories, sound, silence, and labor. Eamon King buffs, pokes, and covers the back of two-ballerina mirrors the way a city maintenance crew buffs graffiti tags — obscuring, cleaning, but also leaving a trace of the process and of the thing itself.
Together, the works ask what it means to encounter something in transition: not finished, not discarded, but caught between states. The truck provides exactly that frame.
Both untitled (Sam Christian, 2026) and Ballerina Mirrors (Eamon King, 2026) have lived in transit: found on a sidewalk and wheeled from there, or schlepped onto the back of a truck. The handball court becomes the works' habitat — a temporary institution, a container that makes visible the often-invisible logistics of art's movement through the city.
Sam Christian is an interdisciplinary artist working between performance, installation, sculpture and image.
Across these mediums, their work examines the aesthetics and politics of objects. Their approach involves working with found material to expand upon or suspend established determinations of relation, value, and function. Materials including instruments, tools, containers, appropriated imagery, are used to organize questions around abstraction, legibility and poetics—and how these questions often collide with the logic of capital, technology, and histories of philosophical discourse.
Sam Christian lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Eamon King (b. Gainesville, FL, 2002) works and lives in Brooklyn with a BFA from St. John’s University. Through the practice of sculpture, painting and performance, King makes under the assumption that objects and thought are more so a network of understandings implied by their existence alone, coming before their respective and ever changing essence. Sometimes these implications fulfill themselves by themselves, being materiality and spatial occupation already existing in an object meant to do so. Sometimes not. This space between what is and is not doing, to fulfill or to not, is where King’s work aims to lay. King uses objects of ignorance with those of knowledge, along with their preceding existence, in the intention of a resulting mean. He practices this form of opinion and recognition through processes synonymous with action, sports, and national identity.
Images courtesy of Site Service