Manjae (Park Juhyun) has devoted his painting practice to a single, inexhaustible subject: the dokkaebi, Korea's indigenous supernatural being. Rather than merely depicting this trickster spirit, his large-scale acrylic paintings make its sinmyo (神妙) — the quality of being at once numinous and unfathomable — directly available to the senses. Densely packed canvases teem with all things in creation: mythic animals and plants, East Asian architectural motifs, machines and airplanes, and crowds of figures whose status, dress, and gesture each hint at their own symbolism, dispersed across the picture without a single center.

Space776 exhibits early to mid-career artists who work in a variety of mediums ranging from live multimedia performance art to traditional oil painting. The gallery accommodates artists from around the globe, taking their works to local and international art fairs such as Volta New York, Volta Basel, Art Miami, Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary, and Art Busan. Space776 was founded in Bushwick, Brooklyn in 2013. In 2020, the gallery relocated to its current residence at 37-39 Clinton Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Space776 also opened a location in Seoul, South Korea in 2020 in accordance with the gallery’s mission to promote the international exchange between local New York artists and the Korean artistic sphere.