Kate Mosher Hall

Tanya Leighton is pleased to announce its representation of Los Angeles-based artist Kate Mosher Hall. This new collaboration is marked by her first solo exhibition at the gallery in Berlin, which is also her first exhibition in Europe.

Kate Mosher Hall’s practice encompasses printmaking, painting, sculpture and performance. In recent years Mosher Hall has been gaining recognition for her paintings made using silk-screening techniques that push the boundaries of the medium in new directions. These images dissolve or resolve depending on the proximity of the viewer to the canvas and gradations of light on their surfaces. Ranging from stage sets to curtains or cartoonish backdrops, her carefully constructed compositions evoke both real and artificial scenarios.

Mosher Hall’s exhibition, Offset, at Tanya Leighton, Berlin will feature a new body of paintings that demonstrate her ongoing interest in the representation of light, its leaky edges and atmospheric affects.

“The spotlight crawls across the floor, up the wall, glowing like a handy, sudden moon. It is a tunnel, which is a kind of vision—a porthole, a hole punch. The darkness simmers. In Kate Mosher Hall’s paintings, the light roams. It searches. These are stage sets for a play that hasn’t started yet or ended years ago; the potential action scuttles between past and future, memory and longing.”

—Audrey Wollen, artist and writer.

Kate Mosher Hall (born in 1986 in Los Angeles, California) lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her BFA from CalArts in 2013 and her MFA from UCLA in 2020. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Without a Body, Without Bill at Hannah Hoffmann Gallery, Los Angeles in 2021; LOQK at Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles, and Wind Breaker at Phil Gallery, Los Angeles, both in 2019, among others. Selected group exhibitions include K as in Knight at Helena Anrather, New York in 2021; Last Call at The Gallery at Michael’s, Santa Monica, and The Sun is Also a Star at Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles, both in 2019. Mosher Hall has also participated in group exhibitions at the New Museum, New York, 67 Ludlow, New York and Marfa Ballroom, Texas.