Inside Mirror focuses on distinct bodies of work in the artists practice: Bouquet Paintings, Pulp Paintings, Wooden Wall Works and Paper Pulp Sculptures. Tying the works together is the artists’ interest in harmonization of color, movement and form, as well as a love of materials such as paper pulp. The artists pull from various sources for inspiration, including jazz improvisation, Suiseki – the Japanese art of stone appreciation, the exploration and abstraction of forms, and natural light phenomena.

About their process, CHIAOZZA states, “As an artist duo, we are in constant dialogue, engagement, interaction, play and critique. The scrutiny we place upon ourselves and our work is a consistent exercise of re-examining our craft, form and concept. We are reflecting pools for each other’s ideas, magnifying each other’s passing thoughts through physical, mental and spiritual rigor. Inside Mirror is a poetic nod to this collaborative, contemplative practice that makes up our day-to-day experience and guides our studio investigations, from paintings of surreal still lives, sculptures of amorphous lumps, wall structures of reflected color, experiments with sculpting mediums and more.”

A common thread is a search for drawing out the substance, giving form to the imagined and making the unexpected feel harmonious. Similar to how one needs light to see a reflection, Inside Mirror hopes to collect the luminous, and bounce it back to both the viewer and artists.

ABOUT THE GALLERY

Hashimoto Contemporary was founded in 2013 by gallerist and curator Ken Harman Hashimoto. You can find us in Los Angeles (Culver City), New York City (Lower East Side) and San Francisco (Tenderloin), all three spaces feature new exhibitions monthly.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Adam Frezza & Terri Chiao are an American artist duo whose work explores play and craft across a range of media, including painted sculpture, installation, collage, photography, design, and public art. Also known as CHIAOZZA (rhymes with “wowza” or “yowza”), Adam and Terri have exhibited their collaborative work in solo exhibitions in New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles, in numerous group shows around the US, and in a variety of art and design venues internationally. The studio was founded in 2011 and is based in New York City.

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INTERFERENCE showcases abstract paintings and sculptures that transcend the limitations of time and space. With the interplay of materiality through oscillating depths of color and substrates, organic and geometric forms commingle within flat and luminous layered and glittering surfaces in this new body of work. The forms mesh and collide simultaneously using a high-key color palette within and outside the confines of the picture plane. This striking juxtaposition creates tension and harmony between the natural and artificial, the familiar and the unknown.

Beyond dynamic compositions and punchy color combinations, there is also a softness from stretches of velvety-matte surfaces. The works feel boundless; how deep and far back in space do they extend ? Are these cropped snippets from larger expanses? And although informed by more traditional formalist and hard-edge abstraction, the work extends beyond the two-dimensional surface and expands beyond it.

Brightly colored sculptures are displayed alongside the paintings. Using sculpture as a tool to explore space and time, pigmented resin poured in layers forms an object that emanates a glow from light passing through and reflecting. The layering requires the viewer to move around the work to capture the entirety of what is available to perceive.

The gallery will be releasing a new limited edition print with the artist in conjunction with the exhibition. For details please email info@hashimotocontemporary.com

The exhibition is currently on view through August 13th. For more information, additional images, or exclusive content, please email NYC Director, Jennifer Rizzo at nyc@hashimotocontemporary.com

ABOUT THE GALLERY

Hashimoto Contemporary was founded in 2013 by gallerist and curator Ken Harman Hashimoto. You can find us in Los Angeles (Culver City), New York City (Lower East Side) and San Francisco (Tenderloin), all three spaces feature new exhibitions monthly.

Their NYC address is 54 Ludlow Street, New York, NY 10002.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Rachel Strum is an abstract artist currently based in Dallas, Texas. Working with various mediums ranging from acrylic paint, aerosol paint, and poured resin she builds layered images that consider and explore the constructs of time and space. Luminous color enmeshed by patterning and stratified glittering surfaces oscillates between flat planes of geometric shapes and deep spatial expanses.

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For Over The Moon, the artist will be exhibiting a series of new paintings featuring her iconic young genderless explorer Mango and
their sidekick, a white French Bulldog named Choco. Traveling through pastel hued environments echoing Lee’s memories and dreams, Mango looks out at the viewer, their large eyes sparkling with curiosity. Mango’s cloud-like hair swirls around their head, melding into the landscape.
Rainbows, bubbles, eyeballs and stars are recurring symbols which can be found scattered throughout the work.

The seminal piece in the exhibition, titled The Lunch (pictured above) depicts Mango multiplied, posed and lounging reminiscent of Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe. A plump Choco is in the foreground, sitting on the grass and looking off into the distance, while luminous strokes of paint dance across the surface like shooting stars.

After two years spent exploring themes of inner sorrow, confusion and a desire to feel connection, the new body of work exhibits optimism and the search for silver linings. The artist captures a feeling of innocence; the gestural movements of her bright color palette brimming with a jubilant
sense of celebration. Full of hope and ready to move forward, Lee considers this body of work the closure of her pandemic series.

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Inspired by summertime in the Southern Hemisphere, which
takes place from November to February, the artist looked
specically to the Antarctic, drawing upon natural occurrences such as Blood Falls, moss forests and striped glaciers. These elements are found throughout the work, merging seamlessly with brown bodies which fluidly become a part of the natural topography. Rounded breasts and stomachs swell and form land masses, creating sweeping and powerful scenic vistas. Austral Summer features a series of ten new paintings which blur the lines between the gurative, the landscape, and the abstract, serving as a meditative exploration of our own connection to space and nature.

About the new body of work, the artist states,”I’m currently really interested in bridging a connection between brown bodies and a continent that is devoid of governance, and seemingly neutral in the global history of colonialism. How can we see ourselves in this uninhabitable space? How do we nd connection and belonging in places we don’t feel we belong and how do we advocate for these same spaces, because our existence is dependent on it?”

Please join us Saturday, April 16th at 54 Ludlow Street from 4pm to 8pm for the opening of Austral Summer. The artist will be in attendance.
The gallery will be releasing a new limited edition screen print with the artist in conjunction with the exhibition. For details please email info@hashimotocontemporary.com

In order to ensure the health and safety of visitors and staff, please note that masks are required for entry. The exhibition will be on view Saturday, April 16th to Saturday, May 7th. For more information, additional images, or exclusive content, please email NYC Director, Jennifer Rizzo at
nyc@hashimotocontemporary.com

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Throughout history, florals can ben found represented in art from all cultures and regions, as well as a source of inspiration within various artistic movements. With over 400,000 known plant species, artists have long looked to this endless array of specimens, utilizing them to convey universal symbol of beauty as well as a spectrum of human emotion. By doing so, artists are able to imbue the delicately stemmed floral with great emotional heft.

Lush spotlights contemporary artists once again looking to the timeless floral muse, from Genevieve Cohn’s jewel-toned figures interacting with nature, to Gabe Langholtz’s works which tell an unfinished story, Anna Valdez’s maximalist still lifes, and Lindsey Lou Howard’s larger than life sculptural homage to plant-based fast food, the exhibition surveys a modern approach to a classic subject.

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 legally required for entry. To schedule an appointment, please click HERE.

For the exhibition, the gallery has teamed up with garden design company Primrose Designs NYC, led by Kris & Elena Nuzzi, who created the botanical installation within the gallery space. About a year ago Hashimoto Contemporary held another exhibit titled Lush. The botanical installation is new to this year’s version – images coming soon!

Featured Artists
Heidi Anderson | Laura Berger | Dennis Brown | Laura Burke | Angela Burson | Jeff Canham | Chiaozza |Genevieve Cohn | Marleigh Culver | Jen Dwyer | Nic Dyer | Gregory Euclide | Mary Finlayson | Lizzie Gill
| Rachel Hayden | HelloMarine | Seonna Hong | Lindsey Lou Howard |Jeremiah Jenkins | Natalia Juncadella | Kelly Knaga | Danym Kwon |Corey Lamb | Gabe Langholtz | Karen Lederer | Talia Levitt | Madi Bianca Nemelc | Emily Pettigrew | Aliyah Salmon | Polly Shindler | Lorien Stern | Josh Stover |Sophie Treppendahl | Melody Tuttle | Anna Valdez | Nicholas Zirk

ABOUT THE GALLERY
Hashimoto Contemporary was founded in 2013 by gallerist and curator Ken Harman Hashimoto. You can find us in Los Angeles (Culver City), New York City (Lower East Side) and San Francisco (Tenderloin) , all three spaces feature new exhibitions monthly.

New York Address

Hashimoto Contemporary
210 Rivington Street
New York, NY 10002

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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.

Relevant Websites

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.

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The exhibition features a series of 11 new paintings, depicting stylized and angular female figures set in ambiguous environments. Continuing her exploration of themes around womanhood, as well as the struggles and anxiety surrounding societal expectations, the works featured in Lack of Pleasure look to the present moment, capturing introspective scenes which capture an all-too-familiar feeling of apathy. Each figure is contemplative and self-examining, floating in color fields which separate them from being
grounded to a particular place.

The artist states, “I don’t think I’m alone in saying that this last year has been difficult. I think a lot of people related to the New York Times calling out this feeling as “languishing”. That feeling is all I could conjure
when I sat down to draw, its all I could see in a lot of the people around me…I was looking for ways to dissociate. This body of work is just that, it’s being stuck & the moments we try to push past it.”

In order to ensure the health and safety of visitors and staff, please note that masks are required for entry. The gallery will be open by appointment only. To schedule a viewing, please click HERE.

The gallery will be releasing a new limited edition screen print with the artist in conjunction with the exhibition. For details please email info@hashimotocontemporary.com.

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.

Address in New York

Hashimoto Contemporary
210 Rivington Street
New York, NY 10002

About the Artist
Jillian Evelyn’s paintings combine the contorted female figure with graphic shapes and a limited color palette. Her work explores the struggle of womanhood and the anxiety that arises from societal expectations.

Jillian studied illustration at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. After graduating, she worked as a footwear designer for several years before moving to California to pursue her career as a full time painter.

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For the exhibition, the artist challenged herself to paint scenic compositions inspired by some of her most cherished memories. Drawing from real life and infused with a heavy dose of whimsy and imagination, the series of colorful paintings take the viewer around the globe, sharing uplifting stories of beautiful moments the artist has witnessed. Through heavily stylized and idyllic imagery, Wong creates an encouraging visual statement promoting joy, acceptance and openness to one another. Through her work, the artist celebrates racial and cultural diversity, promoting working class communities and evoking a sense of curiosity and wonder.

About the exhibition, the artist states,

“As with all my compositions, I paint diverse groups of people enjoying themselves. I come from a mixed-race family and would have loved to see more role-models that look like me growing up. I believe we are all entitled to joy, happiness, and celebration. It is how I connect with the world. As the title of this show suggests, The Sun’s Energy, we are all beings on this planet sharing the same sun, soaking up the same warmth, and deserving of it’s good energy.”

In order to ensure the health and safety of visitors and staff, please note that masks are required for entry.

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For People & Things, Villalba was inspired by the everyday
objects and people from his daily life. Each subject was painted
alla prima. By working with layers of wet-on-wet paint, the artist calls to mind the quickness with which these subjects appear and re-appear throughout his day. Gestural brushstrokes create depth and texture, bringing a sense of beauty and appreciation for the mundane, from
empty beer cans, to broken-in Converse sneakers, to old Toyotas.
Collage-like compositions are prominent throughout the body of work, mimicking the winding narratives of a dream. Objects are shown overlapping, pieced together and floating in an undefined space, interposed with self-portraits and set against checkered backgrounds.

These ambiguous configurations are almost like snapshots, archived from deep within the artists memories.

Please join us Saturday, July 17th from 10am to 6pm for the opening of People & Things. The artist will be in attendance.

In order to ensure the health and safety of visitors and staff, please note that masks are required for entry.

The exhibition will be on view Saturday, July 17th to Saturday, August 7th.

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For Circadian, Lamb was inspired by the circadian rhythm, as well as
the concept of the ‘will to live’, developed by the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. The circadian rhythm refers to the biological processes that run on a 24-hour cycle, which driven by a natural internal clock. This rhythm can be summed up as instinctual behaviors which are mostly beyond our control. Schopenhauer’s ‘will to live’ concept is the irrational “blind incessant impulse without knowledge”, the instinctual behaviors we all possess, those without which we could not exist. These
two concepts, which run parallel to each other, informed Lamb’s work and can be observed in the narrative and recurring elements. The artist utilizes the canvas to create a window which grounds the viewer to a sense of time and space.

Throughout this body of work, Lamb adheres to three main palettes (green & pink, analogous violet, and chromatic grays) with each palette allowing the artist to expand on the motifs and stories being conveyed. The palette shift cross the paintings from day to the deep dark evening, calling to mind our own visual experience of time.

About the body of work, Lamb states, “There are a lot of references to the body as object: through the dismembered body, vases, and small
figurine-like forms. This runs parallel to my thoughts concerning us as both individuals and objects experiencing the universe in our own personal way. The will to live propels us as objects to exist and propagate, but it’s our personal narrative that gives the experience meaning and purpose.”
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 legally required for entry. To schedule an appointment, please
click HERE.

The exhibition will be on view Saturday, June 19th to Saturday, July 10th, 2021 at Hashimoto Comemporay.

ABOUT THE GALLERY:
Hashimoto Contemporary is located in San Francisco, CA and New York, NY. Our roster consists of aneclectic 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‘s Website

Hashimoto Contemporary
210 Rivington Street
New York, NY 10002

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Corey K. Lamb (b. 1983) is a Texas-born artist currently established as an Assistant Professor of Painting at Florida Atlantic University, located in sunny South Florida. He received his BFA from Stephen F. Austin State University, and his MFA in Painting from Indiana University at Bloomington in 2016. His current body of work transposes the biographical onto archetypal forms and figures to explore the tangential point between existentialism and eroticism.

Specificity in his work gives way to persona, as figures take on the guise of familiar roles: the mother, the lover, the fool, and the serpent. Narratives constructed around simple gestures and common motifs are cobbled together visually through visceral applications of oil paint, plastic acrylic shapes, and carefully arranged spray marks. Flat, ornate floral shapes mockingly dance around thick, heavy flesh. Deep melancholy and absolute bliss permeate throughout the images.

Corey Lamb‘s Website

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