Meet Me By the Lake

Uri Aran, Michael Angelo Bala, Ellen Berkenbilt, Nicholas Campbell, Ryan Foerster, Simone Griffin, Xingzi Gu, Lauren Anaïs Hussey, Marcus Jahmal, Nino Kapanadze, Tomasz Kowalski, Olivia van Kuiken, Jean-François Lauda, Tanya Merrill, Emma Helene Moriconi, Catherine Mulligan, Shota Nakamura, Jean Nipon, Oliver Osborne, Loïc Raguénès, Jessy Razafimandimby, Wilhelm Sasnal, Clayton Schiff, Daisy Sheff, Will Sheldon, Sof’ya Shpurova, Raphaela Simon, Thom Trojanowski, Tristan Unrau, Justin de Verteuil, Anne Wu, Coco Young, Leah Ke Yi Zheng

Childhood summers spent communing with friends and family; Parents stuffing bags, loading up the car, and driving to some lakeside destination away from town. Once there, weekenders join a cohort of familiar faces and new ones, who’d either camp in tents and trailers or post up in some nondescript rental.

Anticipation and expectation that something exciting might happen. A first kiss for an adolescent, a drunk adult falling into the river or lake. Splashing and laughing. Fights and love affairs. Unorthodox communions. Such commingling is spurred by a shared ritual: Strangers, friends, and family connected by invisible string.

This exhibition brings together artists across mediums from painting to sculpture to drawing. There are those who explore paint for paint’s sake, either gesturally or energetically. Others who challenge the picture plane or else double down on the system of images. Floating signifiers remain open to the individual’s own interpretation. Alliances are naturally formulated this way. Objects emerge out of fantasy or material fetishism, the exploration of thingness or an enchanted assembly of aspects.

The invisible tissue that connects these artists is slippery. Instead, the gallery space offers a place for friends and strangers to reinforce or form new alliances, frictions, and dialogues.