ART Inside Samuel Alexander Forest's "A Bag of Tricks" The New York-based artist opens up about performance as a form of drawing, drawing as a form of performance, and the question that anchors the show: what remains once the act is over? …Most magicians arrive with a bag of tricks, but no one ever asks what happens to the bag once the tricks are done. That question sits at the center of “A Bag of Tricks,” Samuel Alexander Forest’s new solo exhibition at Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn, on view through August 16. …“A Bag of Tricks” marks a departure from your usual practice of making drawing-sculpture replicas of overlooked everyday objects. With this kind of meta layer of performance about performance, theater and the circus seemed like the perfect set-up to build around.