Hashimoto Modern – Highlight – Artforum Worldwide
Hashimoto Modern will current Pure Choice, the debut Los Angeles solo exhibition by painter Corey Ok. Lamb. The Florida-based painter’s latest work blends sensuality, humor and the macabre with Darwinian themes of biology and human expertise, advised within the artist’s signature chromatic model.
Distilling the human determine into faceless archetypal characters, Lamb creates a fictive panorama the place he examines the function of humanism inside adaptation and survival in an ever shifting, trendy world. Every portray invitations the viewer to enter Lamb’s idyllic, but foreboding scenes and to solid themselves as characters inside.
The artists writes of the brand new work, “The narratives on show sit at a tangential level between theories regarding evolution and the lived human experiences that poignantly observe swimsuit. The conditions introduced take care of competitors, adaptation, inheritance, and abundance, all Darwinian staples. Nevertheless, beneath the picture, there lies a name for the viewer to have interaction with and take part in a deeper sense of surprise with their state of existence, because the narratives search to tie the conversant in an all-encompassing course of that each residing organism is topic to from conception.”
Pure Choice, by Corey Ok. Lamb will probably be on view Saturday, April ninth by way of Saturday, April thirtieth, 2022, introduced by Hashimoto Modern at 2754 S. La Cienega Blvd. Suite B, Los Angeles, CA.