NEW YORK CITY – Hashimoto Contemporary is pleased to present Sensemaking, our debut solo exhibition by Detroit-based artist Pat Perry. This will be the artist’s highly anticipated New York City debut as well as his debut solo exhibition with the gallery, and is curated by Anne-Laure Lemaitre.
The artworks in Sensemaking tell a story about storytelling, how we crave narratives that simplify and explain a chaotic world. The works are part of an ongoing series, depicting recitals and presentations taking place along familiar highways, behind billboards, and out in fields.
Landscapes are invaded by escaped race horses and Youtube celebrities. Banners pay homage to gravesites from Craigslist ads. Wifi dancers, swimming pools, and house fires inhabit familiar roadsides.
The paintings and drawings deploy a wide array of recycled symbols to explore a central theme: we are flawed thinking machines. And even so, the current moment demands that each of us interpret the world.
What should we expect from one another and from ourselves? Quiet and serene, these paintings and drawings offer a joyful glimpse into an invented world; one that’s closely related to the one right in front of us; one that we so often struggle to see clearly and make sense of.
Please join us Saturday, October 16th from 10am to 6pm for the opening of Sensemaking. The artist will be in attendance.
The gallery will be open by appointment only. In order to ensure the health and safety of visitors and staff, please note that masks are required for entry. To schedule a viewing, please click HERE.
The exhibition will be on view Saturday, October 16th to Saturday, November 6th.
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Hashimoto Contemporary
Pat Perry
About the Gallery
Hashimoto Contemporary is located in San Francisco, CA and New York, NY. Our roster consists of an eclectic blend of new contemporary artists. With monthly rotating exhibitions, our programming focuses on a range of
painting, sculpture and installation-based work. You can also visit us at a variety of international art fairs in Miami, New York, London, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Hashimoto Contemporary NYC is located at 210 Rivington Street
New York, NY 10002.
About the Curator
Anne-Laure Lemaitre is a creative director, curator and producer specialized in purpose driven large scale in situ art. With +15 years of experience creating global art infused activations, greater than life installations and complex site specific curatorial programs around the world for corporations and institutions alike, her focus remains the importance of anchoring art in its context as a means to further its impact, trigger new perspectives and explore new conceptual territories.
About The Artist
Pat Perry (b. Michigan, 1991) is an American visual artist primarily painting, drawing, photographing, and installing large-scale outdoor mural installations. Throughout the 2010’s, a series of sketchbooks and photos documenting years of traveling itinerantly around the United States, accidentally became some of Perry’s most well-known works. Simultaneously, his large-scale works and posters have called attention to various social causes through collaborations with groups such as the Beehive Design Collective, AptArts, No More Deaths, and the UN High
Commissioner For Refugees. In 2018, Perry’s largest body of paintings debuted as a solo exhibition titled, National Lilypond Songs at UICA in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In early 2020, several of the works were exhibited alongside new works in a solo exhibition titled, Song and Dance at Takashi Murakami’s Hidari Zingaro gallery in Tokyo.
Perry’s ongoing series of Recital works use a fictional group of performers to animate social and emotional effects
of 21st century technologies, as well as knowledge limits of individual meaning-making. The works include
paintings, drawings, and installations of life-size performers on interstate medians and roadsides throughout the
Midwest. Pat works and lives in a small downtown neighborhood on Detroit’s East Side.
