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Jacob Hashimoto: The Dark Isn鈥檛 The Thing To Worry About
Rhona Hoffman Gallery is pleased to present "The Dark Isn't The Thing To Worry About," the gallery's fifth solo exhibition with New York-based artist Jacob Hashimoto. Hashimoto creates innumerable brightly colored, intricately patterned Japanese rice paper 鈥渒ites鈥� that he coalesces into multi-layered, visually astounding compositions.
In the middle gallery, a cloud-like canopy of resin kites suspended from the ceiling shifts between front-facing and lateral viewpoints. This immersive installation intersperses monochrome white, black, red, and yellow geometric tiles with bold and intricate multi-colored patterns, providing an engrossing and complex viewing experience. Resin, a recent addition to Hashimoto鈥檚 oeuvre, retains the ephemeral lightness of the artist鈥檚 signature rice paper medium but adds a density and luster akin to encaustic or stained glass. Beyond the hanging installation, 鈥淭he Dark Isn't The Thing To Worry About鈥� presents six new paper kite wall works that range from smaller, graphic pieces to a 6.5 x 6 foot kite sculpture with swirling organic lines cut by bold lines and a labyrinthine expanse of yellow. The latticed dispersion of colors and geometric forms in each work the captures the multi-dimensional, magical experience of Hashimoto鈥檚 installations.
"The Dark Isn't The Thing To Worry About鈥� builds upon the artist鈥檚 concern with mankind鈥檚 digital and ecological intrusions into the natural world and his research into post-humanist and Anthropocene theories. Hashimoto reverberates the fragmentation of our own digital world and its impact on perception through an amalgam of intricate, inventive designs drawn into focus and fractured by sharp, graphic lines. 鈥淭he Dark Isn鈥檛 The Thing To Worry About鈥� balances the natural and manufactured, analog and digital, monochrome and intricately patterned, echoing the multi-fold contemporary human experience.
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Rhona Hoffman Gallery is pleased to present "The Dark Isn't The Thing To Worry About," the gallery's fifth solo exhibition with New York-based artist Jacob Hashimoto. Hashimoto creates innumerable brightly colored, intricately patterned Japanese rice paper 鈥渒ites鈥� that he coalesces into multi-layered, visually astounding compositions.
In the middle gallery, a cloud-like canopy of resin kites suspended from the ceiling shifts between front-facing and lateral viewpoints. This immersive installation intersperses monochrome white, black, red, and yellow geometric tiles with bold and intricate multi-colored patterns, providing an engrossing and complex viewing experience. Resin, a recent addition to Hashimoto鈥檚 oeuvre, retains the ephemeral lightness of the artist鈥檚 signature rice paper medium but adds a density and luster akin to encaustic or stained glass. Beyond the hanging installation, 鈥淭he Dark Isn't The Thing To Worry About鈥� presents six new paper kite wall works that range from smaller, graphic pieces to a 6.5 x 6 foot kite sculpture with swirling organic lines cut by bold lines and a labyrinthine expanse of yellow. The latticed dispersion of colors and geometric forms in each work the captures the multi-dimensional, magical experience of Hashimoto鈥檚 installations.
"The Dark Isn't The Thing To Worry About鈥� builds upon the artist鈥檚 concern with mankind鈥檚 digital and ecological intrusions into the natural world and his research into post-humanist and Anthropocene theories. Hashimoto reverberates the fragmentation of our own digital world and its impact on perception through an amalgam of intricate, inventive designs drawn into focus and fractured by sharp, graphic lines. 鈥淭he Dark Isn鈥檛 The Thing To Worry About鈥� balances the natural and manufactured, analog and digital, monochrome and intricately patterned, echoing the multi-fold contemporary human experience.
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