Justin Chance

Tara Downs is pleased to present Justin Chance’s second solo presentation at the gallery. “Centered around a series of Chance’s painterly quilts, which he makes by arranging felted wool in various colors to form compositions before enclosing them between translucent layers of dyed silk and cotton muslin. For quilts titled, Shock, the wool and silk were dyed in an exhaust vat, using different wool but the same dye... But there is something to the affect of Chance’s show that feels new even as the subject matter is familiar. Chance’s work isn’t shocking a viewer into awareness, or offering a space to mourn, or pointing a finger—nothing wrong with those things, but they’ve all been done, yet here we are again. Instead, Again captures the ways tragedies happen again and again, and yet daily life marches onward. for many of us. This daily life is hardly unaffected, yet there is a strange dissonance, to say the least.”

—Emily Watlington

Justin Chance is an artist and writer based in New York. Chance earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Arts in Visual & Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015. His work has been the subject of solo and two-person exhibitions at the following venues: “Archive,” Tara Downs, New York, US (2025) (Forthcoming); “Motherhood,” Ginny on Frederick, London, UK (2024); “Dominion,” Prairie, Chicago, US (2024); “Archive,” Naranjo 141, Mexico City, MX (2024); “Live,” Tara Downs, New York, US (2023); “Love is Sci-Fi,” Sydney, Sydney, AU (2023); “Winter (with Sylvie Hayes- Wallace),” Hesse Flatow, New York, US (2023); CFA, Milan, IT, presented by Tara Downs (2022); “Social (with The People of New York),”Apparatus Projects, Chicago, US (2022); “Low Life,” Smart Objects, Los Angeles, US (2021); and “Better (with Hunter Foster),” Gern en Regalia, NewYork, US (2021). The artist’s work has been presented in numerous group exhibitions including: “The Principal Cause of Serial Monogamy,” Tara Downs, New York, US (2024); “A Study in Form (Chapter Two),” James Fuentes, New York, US (2024); “Flesh & Flowers,” Made in America, Noname, Paris, FR (2023); “Public Life (Drawings), Chris Andrews, Montreal, CA (2023); “The Grid and the Curve,” JTT, New York, US (2022); “Material Knowledge,” Arsenal Contemporary, New York, US (2022); “Elective Affinities,” Chapter NY, New York, US (2022); “Remnant, Artifact, Flow,” Thierry Goldberg, New York, US (2021).