Hashimoto Contemporary – Spotlight – Artforum International
Hashimoto Up to date will current Natural Selection, 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 type.
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 comply with go well with. The conditions introduced cope with competitors, adaptation, inheritance, and abundance, all Darwinian staples. Nevertheless, beneath the picture, there lies a name for the viewer to interact with and take part in a deeper sense of marvel with their state of existence, because the narratives search to tie the conversant in an all-encompassing course of that each dwelling organism is topic to from conception.”
Pure Choice, by Corey Ok. Lamb might be on view Saturday, April ninth by means of Saturday, April thirtieth, 2022, introduced by Hashimoto Up to date at 2754 S. La Cienega Blvd. Suite B, Los Angeles, CA.
