Subversive is a descriptive often overused in the art world, routinely referencing a brand of humor or political message, sometimes both, resulting in.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Swimming: A Conversation with Brandon Lipchik
Richard Heller Gallery // May 15, 2021 - June 12, 2021
May 19, 2021 | in Painting
Swimming pools are an interesting subject to paint. They are both a personal and almost secretive plae of discovery, and often they can be a place of community and fun. Brandon Lipchik has captured the essence of swimming in a way that is both unique and spiritual. For his new solo show at Richard Heller Gallery,
Inground, Lipchik has taken the pool as a place of personal revelation, those moments of desire that are so engrained in the mind that the openess of water seeps into your psyche.
The Flirt: A Conversation With Joshua Petker
Anat Ebgi // May 01, 2021 - June 05, 2021
April 28, 2021 | in Painting
It s hard to believe it s been 9 years since we last featured the works by Joshua Petker, but that fact makes it even sweeter to see him back in the spotlight with a solo debut at Anat Ebgi. Opening on May 1st,
The
Flirt will be revealing the latest body of work that Los Angeles-based artist has been developing in the past year or so, producing one of his most consistent and coherent bodies of work to date.
Over the years Petker has been exploring his practice and technique using the collage-like approach to composition and building of the image. Overlapping with each other and nonconforming to the laws of physics, the casts of characters and elements would often merge inside puzzling, often apparition-like scenes. Yet, in the past year or so his focus narrowed down along with his vibrant color palette, evoking to some extent the uncertainty and deceleration
It’s always energizing to see resilient folks transform an indifferent experience into fuel that blazes a new path. Years of working in the advertising industry was like skating on the surface, pushing Cathrin Hoffman into a passion for making work that speaks about the human experience.
Through imagery and sculptural work depicting the sting and heat of being human, she delves into questions similar to those the European existentialist philosophers pondered over a hundred years ago. Blasting through an advanced digital age where reality and cyber existence keep shapeshifting, she creates rough 3D renderings of anthropomorphic shapes existing in desolate, void spaces. Stripped of identifying features, removed from objects that would suggest social status, they are portrayed with an emphasis of the questionable flaws we all carry. After years of photoshopping and perfecting models and consumer goods integral to her profession, Hoffmann decided to focus on telling the other,