Julia Stotskaya works at the point where astronomy tips into folklore. Her drawings begin as observation — the geometry of an eclipse, the arc of a meteor shower, the slow choreography of sun and moon — and end somewhere closer to myth, where a fingertip can hold a star and an eye can read the sky like a page.

Sun. Dots. Comets. inaugurates Gridchin Studio's exhibition programme, and it does so on a date the artist chose deliberately. On 15.08.2026, the moon crosses the sun — a solar eclipse that coincides with the peak of the Perseid meteor shower, one kind of celestial brightness giving way to another. Stotskaya treats this convergence not as a backdrop but as the exhibition's central image: a sky trading one form of light for another, observed, annotated, and redrawn by hand.

The works on view are built from a restricted, almost liturgical vocabulary — dense fields of dots, radiating lines, concentric rings, a recurring solar face whose features dissolve into pattern the longer one looks. Rendered in deep indigo against white, the drawings recall woodcuts and folk almanacs as much as scientific diagrams: hand-lettered notes drift across the compositions like marginalia, dates and observations inscribed directly onto the image, blurring the line between artwork and astronomical record.

This tension — between the precision of the eclipse's calendar and the intuitive, almost ritual quality of the mark-making — runs through the whole body of work. Stars become both data points and decoration; the sun's corona reads simultaneously as scientific illustration and as eyelash, as ornament, as gesture. Comets streak across the compositions the way they do across a night sky: briefly, insistently, gone before the eye can fully hold them.

In choosing Stotskaya as its first artist, Gridchin Studio sets out its intention for the programme ahead — work that is intimate in scale and hand, but oriented toward something much larger than itself. Sun. Dots. Comets. asks viewers to do what the sky itself insists on certain days: to look up.