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Hat Trick
Rusha & Co., Los Angeles
Curated by Vin Thorpe
Chase Biado, Alex Cutler, Devon DeJardin, Jess Xiaoyi Han, Nicolas Holiber, Jack Jubb, Kathryn Kampovsky, David Leggett, Brendan Lynch, Stefan Robert Meier, Amadeo Morelos, Taylor Marie Meier Prendergast, Dylan Rose Rheingold, Nathan Ritterpusch, Rebekah Rubalcava, Runsy, Rachel Sharpe, Wilba Simson, Sol Summers, Lauren Tsai, Anne Vieux, Bwhitey, Jamie Gray Williams, & Scout Zabinski
Hat Trick at Rusha & Co. explores a triple-threat of artistic expression: sketched imagery, dimensional forms, and detailed renderings. Cohesive and distinct, yet fluid and permeable, these loosely-defined manifestations of the creative process, taken together, create an all-encompassing portrait of contemporary human existence.
Artworks
/viridescence_, 2023
Acrylic and ink on canvas
53 1/2 × 60 in
Courtesy of the Artist and Rusha & Co., Los Angeles
02.15.23, 2023
Acrylic paste and oil on canvas
36 × 30 in
Courtesy of the Artist and Rusha & Co., Los Angeles
Charcoal and acrylic on canvas
72 × 60 in
Courtesy of the Artist and Rusha & Co., Los Angeles
Acrylic and collage on panel
16 × 16 in
Courtesy of the Artist and Rusha & Co., Los Angeles
Oil, acrylic, china marker, charcoal on canvas
48 × 72 in
Courtesy of the Artist and Rusha & Co., Los Angeles
Guardian Elias, 2023
Graphite on hot pressed paper
51 × 51 in
Courtesy of the Artist and Rusha & Co., Los Angeles
Acrylic on canvas
48 × 40 in
Courtesy of the Artist and Rusha & Co., Los Angeles
Oil on canvas
12 × 14 in
Courtesy of the Artist and Rusha & Co., Los Angeles
Oil on canvas
12 × 14 in
Courtesy of the Artist and Rusha & Co., Los Angeles
Graphite on paper
27 × 34 in
Courtesy of the Artist and Rusha & Co., Los Angeles
Pomegranate, 2023 oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
30 × 40 in
Courtesy of the Artist and Rusha & Co., Los Angeles
Alkyd and acrylic on canvas
25 × 30 in
Courtesy of the Artist and Rusha & Co., Los Angeles
The Swan Song, 2023
Charcoal on Fabriano Paper mounted to canvas fixed with archival UV protective varnish
63 × 46 in
Courtesy of the Artist and Rusha & Co., Los Angeles
Acrylic on linen-wrapped wooden panel
16 1/2 × 11 3/4 × 2 in
Courtesy of the Artist and Rusha & Co., Los Angeles
Aluminum leaf, oil, and spray paint on canvas
30 × 40 in
Courtesy of the Artist and Rusha & Co., Los Angeles
Untitled (Red), 2023
Aluminum leaf and oil on canvas
30 × 36 in
Courtesy of the Artist and Rusha & Co., Los Angeles
Installation Views
Each of the elements of our artistic hat trick occupies one of the three rooms of the historic firehouse cum gallery. The realm of the sketch gets our ball rolling in the building’s engine bay. The artists in this exercise embody a stream of consciousness, an amalgamation of forms, and an ever present aura of the artist’s hand. From the vibrant to the monochromatic, the human mind finds its way in the court through gestural strokes and a freestyle approach to the image.
A world of dimensional shapes is the second volley in the exhibition’s threepeat. From voluminous explorations of the trompe l'oeil to intense otherworldly narratives, the artists engage their skills in both figuration and abstraction to orchestrate entirely new worlds, characters, and journeys. This division manipulates form and composition, providing an escape from the pitch and slipping away from reality in favor of the absurd, the geometric, and the colorful.
Last in our huddle is the experience of the full render. An intense corporeality permeates through the works on view as artists blur the lines of reality with visceral figurations and manipulations of photorealism. Physical and internalized identities are reconceived through a change of direction. Figures and forms find free substitution by the artists’ hands in the representative side of the works on view.
Hat Trick goes to bat for a conception of contemporary art both inventive and groundbreaking. A trophy case of styles and mediums, Hat Trick breaks down preconceptions of how art can be understood by sharing their inherent similarities and the unifying thread within all artistic production: human connection. Emanating with an urgency of the present day, each of these artists has evolved from lineages of art history, the champions of minimalism, surrealism, expressionism (and more), to rethink the ways we see and inhabit the world around us.
Together, these artists are grouped into triple threats. On their own, each develops a distinctive visual language that cuts through the noise of the crowds to resonate with onlookers in plays that illuminate the hidden, the societal, and the internalized.
