Poetics of Falsification
Harper鈥檚 is pleased to announce two exhibitions opening in East Hampton on Saturday, August 19. The front gallery will feature works by artists Hyegyeong Choi, Michele Fletcher, Ji Woo Kim, Anastasia Komar, Cece Philips, Lumin Wakoa, and Chloe West across a group exhibition titled Poetics of Falsification. In the rear gallery, Brooklyn-based painter Yesiyu Zhao will present Wanderers, which includes a collection of new oil paintings and sculptures for his debut solo exhibition with Harper鈥檚.
Poetics of Falsification features seven female artists who trouble the boundaries of classification through the practice of fabrication. Drawing from the late painter Elaine de Kooning鈥檚 critique of feminist art history, the artists featured in this exhibition defy identitarian and medium-specific categorization. As de Kooning noted, 鈥渢o be put in any category not defined by one鈥檚 work is to be falsified.鈥� The artists throughout Poetics of Falsification refuse to be governed by the doctrines of their medium or the assumptions of their gender. These artists devise their own social and aesthetic realities instead, using a diverse range of visual languages.
Michele Fletcher, for example, complicates feminine expression through her alluring and at times, enigmatic abstractions of flowers. Meanwhile, the women illustrated in Hyegyeong Choi鈥檚 lush paintings flaunt divergent body types as they saunter through whimsical landscapes. Artists like Anastasia Komar reject the human body altogether: sculptural elements composed of glass polymer resemble amphibious tails and exoskeletons, embellishing iridescent color field paintings. Together, whether it be through the performance of womanhood, the demolishing of beauty standards, or the forging of new kinds of living beings altogether, the artists that comprise Poetics of Falsification distort the rigidity of historical taxonomies and uncover the latent power that resides in disorder. In doing so, they threaten externally imposed narratives and demand a self-determined existence.
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Harper鈥檚 is pleased to announce two exhibitions opening in East Hampton on Saturday, August 19. The front gallery will feature works by artists Hyegyeong Choi, Michele Fletcher, Ji Woo Kim, Anastasia Komar, Cece Philips, Lumin Wakoa, and Chloe West across a group exhibition titled Poetics of Falsification. In the rear gallery, Brooklyn-based painter Yesiyu Zhao will present Wanderers, which includes a collection of new oil paintings and sculptures for his debut solo exhibition with Harper鈥檚.
Poetics of Falsification features seven female artists who trouble the boundaries of classification through the practice of fabrication. Drawing from the late painter Elaine de Kooning鈥檚 critique of feminist art history, the artists featured in this exhibition defy identitarian and medium-specific categorization. As de Kooning noted, 鈥渢o be put in any category not defined by one鈥檚 work is to be falsified.鈥� The artists throughout Poetics of Falsification refuse to be governed by the doctrines of their medium or the assumptions of their gender. These artists devise their own social and aesthetic realities instead, using a diverse range of visual languages.
Michele Fletcher, for example, complicates feminine expression through her alluring and at times, enigmatic abstractions of flowers. Meanwhile, the women illustrated in Hyegyeong Choi鈥檚 lush paintings flaunt divergent body types as they saunter through whimsical landscapes. Artists like Anastasia Komar reject the human body altogether: sculptural elements composed of glass polymer resemble amphibious tails and exoskeletons, embellishing iridescent color field paintings. Together, whether it be through the performance of womanhood, the demolishing of beauty standards, or the forging of new kinds of living beings altogether, the artists that comprise Poetics of Falsification distort the rigidity of historical taxonomies and uncover the latent power that resides in disorder. In doing so, they threaten externally imposed narratives and demand a self-determined existence.
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