Barbara Kasten "Chroma" at Hannah Hoffman hosted by Kristina Kite

Photo appears courtesy of Hannah Hoffman

https://www.hannahhoffman.la/exhibition/f

 

Andy Robert @ Hannah Hoffman

Police and Thieves, 2017

Oil and pencil on canvas

24 x 20 inches

Not quite sure if I picked this one because of its segue from the Catherine Opie show before, but here it is anyway. It's a painting as scattered and searching as the Opie photos' subject and quite often output a la collage, somewhere between obsession and I don't know. Hard to tell which side of the line we are on sometimes, the law, the spirit of the law, or the transgressors.

Rey Akdogan @ Hannah Hoffman

HHG [north wall_001Brilliant- FPE], 2017

380.945 sq ft

CRA 200F, CRA 200F, CRA 800F, [RAL 9005, RAL 9005] solid #19, 2017

Powder coated aluminum

Three parts, 5.5 x 84 x 1.5 inches (14 x 213.4 x 3.8 cm), 5.5 x 36 x 1.5 inches (14 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm), 8 x 36 x 1.5 inches (20.3 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm)

CRA 200F, [RAL 9005, RAL 9005] solid #14, 2016

Powder coated aluminum, 

Two parts: 5.5 x 24 x 1.5 inches (14 x 61 x 3.8 cm), 5.5 x 24 x 1.5 inches (14 x 61 x 3.8 cm)

 Faction #23, 2017

Acrylic paint on wooden French cleat, Two Parts, each: 4 x 72 x 3/4 inches (10.2 x 182.9 x 1.9 cm), Overall Dimensions: 94 x 72 x 3/4 inches (238.8 x 182.9 x 1.9 cm)

Faction # 24, 2017

Acrylic paint on wooden French cleat

Four Parts, each: 3 x 12 x 3/4 inches (7.6 x 30.5 x 1.9 cm)

Overall Dimensions: 21 1/2 x 18 3/4 x 3/4 inches (54.6 x 47.6 x 1.9 cm)

Faction #20, 2017

Acrylic paint on wooden French cleat

Two Parts: 3 x 12 x 3/4 inches (7.6 x 30.5 x 1.9 cm), 3 x 24 x 3/4 inches (7.6 x 61 x 1.9 cm)

Overall Dimensions: 15 x 24 x 3/4 inches (38.1 x 61 x 1.9 cm)

Faction #21, 2017

Acrylic paint on wooden French cleat

Three Parts: 3 x 24 x 3/4 inches (7.6 x 61 x 1.9 cm), 3 x 12 x 3/4 inches (7.6 x 30.5 x 1.9 cm), 3 x 12 x 3/4 inches (7.6 x 30.5 x 1.9 cm)

Overall Dimensions: 3 x 24 x 2 1/4 inches (7.6 x 61 x 5.7 cm)

Faction #19, 2017

Acrylic paint on wooden French cleat

Two Parts, each:, 3 x 24 x 3/4 inches (7.6 x 61 x 1.9 cm)

Overall Dimensions: 24 x 42 1/4 x 3/4 inches (61 x 107.3 x 1.9 cm)

 Faction #22, 2017

Acrylic paint on wooden French cleat

Two Parts, each: 3 x 12 x 3/4 inches (7.6 x 30.5 x 1.9 cm), 3 3/4 x 12 x 1 1/2 inches (9.5 x 30.5 x 3.8 cm)

Works that are involved in an exchange of absorption between architecture and intervening elements, finished in black like the opposite of white out on paper and colored edges, discrete shits and subtle reflections between object and place. Not quite knowing which is which is part of the fun as skylights, floor imperfections and other features complicate the viewing experience. Whatever the case, it's not difficult to translate this one into the real world as the below photo will attest; it's an exterior wall just doors down from the gallery space in which Akdgoan has inserted similar dynamic elements, mostly linear to frame an expanding, non-linear universe.

Sam Falls @ Hannah Hoffman

The Sun Is My Undoing, 2016

Book cover

13 x 8 inches

Barbara Kasten "I want the eyes to open - Josef Albers" @ Hannah Hoffman

Elemental 3, 2016

C-Print

Image dimensions: 70 x 56 inches

Framed Dimensions: 70.375 x 56.375 inches

Elemental 1, 2016

C-Print

Image dimensions: 70 x 56 inches

Framed Dimensions: 70.375 x 56.375 inches

Elemental 2, 2016

C-Print

Image dimensions: 70 x 56 inches

Framed Dimensions: 70.375 x 56.375 inches

Double Corner, 2016

Video, projection, black backdrop paper, glass mirror

Dimensions variable

Isabelle Cornaro @ Hannah Hoffman

Landscape, 2016

Baltic birch, water based acrylic paint, brass

brass screws, velvet fabric, dried fungus,

tree root, agate, glass shaped as crystals,

metal chains and jewelry, coins, scientific model

240 x 211 x 105 inches

Daniel Buren, Joe Zorilla, Charles Ray, and Sam Lewitt @ Hannah Hoffman

Daniel Buren

Peinture acrylique blanche sur tissue raye blanc et orange, February1974

Paint on white and orange striped cotton canvas

66.5 x 52.7 5inches

Joe Zorilla

Neither/Nor, 2012-2015

Found tire, gold leaf

92 x 15x 38.5inches

Charles Ray

Untitled, 1973

Gelatinsilverprint

31.25 x 44.25 x 2.25 inches

Sam Lewitt

Shutter Aperture Flex Cable for Canon Powershot S100Lens Repair Trilobite Lineament, 2015

Etching on copper-clad plastic, Asphaltum, steel bracket 

Etching:  96 x 12.38 inches

Bracket: 21.25 x 5 x 6.25inches

Overall dimensions: 96 x 12.38 x 6.25

Buren as icon. His paintings the fabric of solar occlusion in relation to architecture, design on land and water. Itself a become sign of painting. Why paint, when one can buy? Why alter pattern size just enough. Integrates found object with desire to reorient. Cf. Zorilla's foiled tread, Ray's cocoon figure in found landscape, and Lewitt's suspended photographic "sign."

Circuitry, currency, and pattern. Things hanging in the balance. Tenuous relationship to structure all.