Jacob Hashimoto: Not After a Million Years

From Talley Dunn Gallery:

“Talley Dunn Gallery is immensely honored to announce the highly anticipated, solo exhibition of internationally acclaimed artist Jacob Hashimoto. Hashimoto’s inaugural exhibition at the gallery, Not After a Million Years, will open October 5th.

Jacob Hashimoto is renowned for his mesmerizingly immersive installations composed of thousands of layered, kite-like disks that hover from above in delicate suspension, subsuming the space of the viewer. Engaging with a lineage of artists who have challenged the boundaries of the picture plane, Hashimoto explodes the space of painting into the gallery, configuring the viewer as a central part of the artwork’s composition. Hashimoto intends to create a remarkable site-specific installation for this exhibition that will entirely transform the gallery with over ten thousand collaged paper kites.  Meticulously created by hand with painting, collage, and hand-tying, Hashimoto’s three-dimensional compositions of bamboo, paper, string, paint, and wood actively engage the spaces in which they occupy whether as individual wall compositions or immense site-specific installation hanging from above.

Responding directly to the gallery’s expansive space, Hashimoto will spend over a week installing a site-specific installation, as he responds directly to its particular environment, harkening back to his early work when spontaneity and adaptation were key. As such, the installation is uniquely configured to the gallery’s infrastructure, even requiring a new method of installation to hang the kites from the gallery’s ceiling. The gallery’s generous setting provides a rare opportunity to experience Hashimoto’s exquisite handmade artwork on such a grand scale, something that can only truly be appreciated in person. The light that permeates through the artist’s cascading diaphanous paper forms invites the eye to linger on a ray of sun or the stillness of the air, to become immersed in an expanse of space, form, and color.”