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Baldanders 1 at Anton Kern

Preview of performance at Anton Kern with Phong Bui (as Immanuel Kant) and William Blake. April 5, 2025

Polymer Epoche (An Internet of Minor Aesthetics) Gets a William Blake Tattoo From Jamiroquai
Oil and acrylic on canvas

Featured in an essay published in Eyebeam “Software as Underpainting” by Brian Droitcour

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William Blake. The Lovers’ Whirlwind. 1824-1827

Scene from Call Center (2025)

Dramaturgy of the Call Center (2025)

Produced as a series of videos, sculptures, and paintings, this project imagines an absurd and distopic future of art education. Using recorded conversations with artists, dealers, and art advisors, the future artist in Call Center discusses rumors and career trajectories within the art world, both real and imagined.

Scene from Call Center (2025)

Side Hustle. Oil and acrylic on linen. 25 x 30 inches. 2024

“An Average Comet” at Harkawik Gallery

7.20.24-8.31.24

Harkawik is pleased to announce the inaugural exhibition in our newly built gallery at 88 Walker St in Tribeca, An Average Comet. Our first international survey since early 2022, Comet explores the reproduction of the exterior world in the artist’s studio, foregrounding contemporary views of mimesis, and looking at practices that copy, appropriate, borrow, recreate or otherwise duplicate. Mimesis is the foundational principle for both the oldest philosophical conceptions of visual art, and the most disposable present-day imagery. Its most simplistic meaning is enumerated by representational art, by capturing the world “out there” and reproducing it for the viewer. Mimesis is used to explain, on the one hand, a base impulse to imitate, to observe behavior and, without thinking, emulate it, and, on the other, a nuanced process by which essential features of the natural world are recreated but not reproduced, generating effects akin but by no means identical to their counterparts. It is difficult to imagine a model of visual art without mimesis, without a notion of reproduction. After all, what is the meaning of a world that is created from nothing? In this sense, mimesis might be thought of as a necessary condition of the other, simultaneously allowing for its possibility and exposing the “illusory whole” of dominant discourse. An Average Comet presents 30 contemporary artists engaged deeply in the recreation of phenomena, logics and conditions, situating them gently on a continuum between metaphoric and catachrestic activity, and suggesting a world that lingers quietly but insistently beyond the studio door.

Casimir Ernest Gasser

Kaspars Groševs

Isaac Soh Fujita Howell

Guillermo Serrano Amat

“A dreaming hand wounded by thorns” at
Rachel Uffner Gallery

11.11.23-01.06.24

Curated by Rebekah Chozick

Haruspexing the Virtual Sublime, 2021-2023Oil and acrylic on canvas in custom frame with aluminum, resin, steel, plexiglas, digital print, and micro usb drivecanvas: 78 x 62 x 1 1/2 in (198.1 x 157.5 x 3.8 cm)
framed: 86 x 82 in (218.4 x 208.3 cm)

The Coral Fisher, 2022-2023Oil and acrylic on canvas in custom frame with aluminum, resin, steel, plexiglas, digital print, and micro usb drivecanvas: 72 x 54 x 1 1/2 in (182.9 x 137.2 x 3.8 cm)
overall: 77 x 70 in (195.6 x 177.8 cm)

A Higher Court of Vision, 2023Oil and acrylic on canvas62 x 46 in
157.5 x 116.8 cm

Anatomy of a Sandcastle Harddrive (after Bacon), 2022-2023oil and acrylic on canvas55 x 42 x 1 in
(139.7 x 106.7 x 2.5 cm)

Soft Orpheus, 2023oil and acrylic on linen in plexiglas box16 x 13 x 3/4 in
40.6 x 33 x 1.9 cm

The Opal Sandcastle Ghost Bites the Misericorde

Oil and acrylic on canvas

72 x 54 inches
2022

“Subtle Subversions” at Microscope Gallery

6.9.22-7.15.22

Ayanna Dozier, Bang Geul Han, Morrison Gong, Africanus Okokon, Demetrius Oliver, Vanessa Gully Santiago, Andrew Paul Woolbright

Interviews

Conversations through The Brooklyn Rail

F. Jutta Koether

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