"Left Unsaid" @ Hashimoto Contemporary, NYC - A group exhibition highlighting thirteen artists who capture elements of impermanence in their work

Left Unsaid

Hashimoto Contemporary, New York

21 June - 26 July 2025

Hashimoto Contemporary presents Left Unsaid, a group exhibition highlighting thirteen artists who capture elements of impermanence in their work. 

Featured Artists: Tania Alvarez | Sabrina Bockler | Allie Gattor | Rachel Gregor | Zoe Hawk | Nicholas Bono Kennedy | Thérèse Mulgrew | Cait Porter | Zack Rosebrugh | Sara Suppan | Natalie Terenzini | Angela Fang Zirbes | Jesse Zuo

In Left Unsaid, the quiet weight of impermanence is explored through layered symbolism, fragmented narratives, glances, gestures and unfinished thoughts.

Thérèse Mulgrew’s Peony and Coffee depicts a hand adorned with rings reaching for a cup of coffee, a single peony in bloom laying on the yellow checkered tablecloth. Simultaneously vulnerable and intimate, the artist portrays a visual narrative reminiscent of imagery captured in cinematic stills. Rachel Gregor’s Studio Window with Honey gives the viewer a look inside the artist’s studio through a windowsill still life filled with reminders of things long past and artifacts that remind the artist of home. The objects are set against the window, which serves as a portal to the changing seasons and ever-shifting daylight. Through this collection of personally significant objects, Rachel Gregor invites the viewer into her world.

Allie Gattor’s meticulous linework in Clippings illustrates a woman shrouded in a pink bath towel, perfectly matching her pink bathroom. Sitting along the edge of the bathtub, she is found clipping her comically long toenails while two goldfish swim in the bath. Drawing from the visual language of children’s book illustration, Allie Gattor’s work unfolds in a playful palette, which gradually reveals it’s true weight and humor. Nicholas Bono Kennedy’s series creates a portrait of a single table in different stages of its life, building fictionalized worlds of characters with different homes, families and meals. Though it’s surroundings change scene to scene, the table remains constant, a silent bystander.

Contemplating the transient nature of individual and collective experiences, Left Unsaid draws attention to the fleeting, often overlooked moments in life that can take on new meaning through memory, reflection or distance. Participating artists reveal how impermanence does not erase significance, but instead reshapes it. In honoring the ephemeral, these works suggest that even the quietest moments have the ability to echo far beyond their origin.

HASHIMOTO CONTEMPORARY NYC

54 Ludlow Street, New York, NY 10002

www.hashimotocontemporary.com

Artist Stephen Morrison @ Hashimoto Contemporary, NYC - "Dog Show #4: House Broken" Exhibition

Stephen Morrison

Dog Show #4: House Broken

Hashimoto Contemporary, New York

18 January - 8 February 2025

Hashimoto Contemporary presents Dog Show #4: House Broken, a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist STEPHEN MORRISON. In his latest solo exhibition, the artist reflects on the chaotic messiness of home life through painting and sculpture, finding inspiration in the lively and jumbled environment he grew up in. Reminiscing on his childhood home, memories of dancing, yelling, slapdash crafting and a constant swirl of half-finished products all come to mind. Amid all the noise, Stephen Morrison found an odd sense of harmony - moments where the chaos seemed to hum along just right, as if disorder itself had a rhythm. 

Divided into two parts, the main gallery features seven trompe l’oeil paintings that transform chaotic domestic scenes into objects of reverence. Everyday items such as shopping bags, magazine clippings, broken dolls and items often destined for the trash are reimagined through the artist’s well-known dog character. On closer inspection, the dogs reveal themselves to be stressed, broken, precariously balanced and in various states of emotion. Interspersed with the paintings are a series of sculptures the artist refers to as “clump spirits” - assemblages of objects in a state of disorder. These sculptures are playful yet simultaneously unsettling; stacked, cracked and appearing on the verge of collapse. 

The second gallery is taken over by an installation which takes on a more personal tone and reflects Stephen Morrison’s haphazard approach to home and habits. The imagined domestic interior features miniature self-portraits personified as construction workers, attempting to build but failing in various ways. They are lazy, distracted, intoxicated or, at times, driven by baser instincts. This self-deprecating critique aims to transform feelings of guilt and shame into something humorous, relatable and approachable. 

Together, these two spaces create an atmosphere of zany failure; a celebration of imperfection and production without resolution. Inspired by the playful trickery of dollhouses and miniatures, the artist attempts to transform chaos and clutter into something meaningful, finding beauty and value in the flaws and disorder of everyday life.

HASHIMOTO CONTEMPORARY NYC

54 Ludlow Street, New York, NY 10002

www.hashimotocontemporary.com

Gabe Langholtz @ Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles - "At Arm's Lenght" Exhibition

Gabe Langholtz: At Arm's Lenght

Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles

7 - 28 September, 2024

Certain elements of our physical composition identify us as part of a group that shares lived experiences. The shapes of our various appendages passed down through billions of years of evolution place us in a species with over 8 billion other individuals that comprise the human species. In his project room show At Arm’s Length at Hashimoto Contemporary Los Angeles, painter Gabe Langholtz highlights a person’s distinguishable characteristics as they navigate common threads of the human condition, such as creativity, power, work, love, and death. Punctuated by still life scenes and memento mori, this new collection of paintings focuses on the singular arm in various actions as a motif, revealing that people may share common traits and experiences, but the narratives that shape an individual’s identity differ profoundly.  

In what Gabe Langholtz describes as “naive paintings,” the pink, nude arms with tightly fisted hands border cartoonish, round, and simplified to be archetypal. This series of paintings could represent the narrative of a single individual bouncing from moment to moment, donning and shedding identities like putting down a hammer and picking up a popsicle. The uniform arm also symbolizes the traits all humans share, often used to create circumstances and selfhood unique to our lives. 

About the exhibition, the Austin, Texas-based artist writes:

“Through the repetition and exploration of this singular arm, I aim to challenge conventional notions of uniformity and highlight the subtle nuances that distinguish each of us. By juxtaposing similarities and differences, I invite viewers to reflect on the inherent connections that bind us together, while also celebrating the diversity that enriches our collective tapestry. Ultimately, this series serves as a contemplative exploration of our shared humanity, prompting a deeper understanding and appreciation of the multifaceted nature of identity within a broader community.”

HASHIMOTO CONTEMPORARY LOS ANGELES

2754 S La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90034

www.hashimotocontemporary.com

Mary Finlayson @ Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles - "Flowers On The Wall" Exhibition

Mary Finlayson: Flowers On The Wall

Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles

7 - 28 September, 2024

The objects we own keep memories; they hold clues about who we are and who has shaped us. In Mary Finlayson's solo exhibition Flowers on the Wall at Hashimoto Contemporary Los Angeles, the artist depicts sculptures, books, and flowers to represent loved ones and moments from her childhood in a new series of vibrant paintings and mosaics. Reflecting on her mother’s life before a dementia diagnosis, Finlayson considers how memories shape who we are and who we have been, as the objects we keep through the years pull the people and places of the past into the present. 

Rich with bright, bold colors, Mary Finlayson’s still life works are flattened, pushing her essentialized renditions of books, art posters, floor tiles, flowers, and plants up against the front of the canvas. The San Francisco-based artist often works her references into her subject matter, drawing stylistic inspiration from canonical Masters like Henri Matisse, Ellsworth Kelly, and David Hockney—each of whom has a monograph featured somewhere in this series of new works. Finlayson blends her traditional references with more obscure, personal ones, pulling stylistic inspiration from female artists and artisans like Kenojuak Ashevak and Maude Lewis, whose prints, weavings, and paintings were cast aside as “folk art” or “crafts.” Continuing her experimentation with mosaics, Finlayson openly pays homage to “craft” artists, keeping one foot in the lineage of art history and another in non-traditional experimentation and play.

The creative force behind this new body of work is memory: how it persists in our minds, molding our understanding of ourselves and our closest relations. In the wake of her mother’s dementia diagnosis, Mary Finlayson wondered, “How do we remember, and what is left, when we can no longer tell the stories that shape us?” Each composition in these still life works connotes a memory, a moment, or a person. The flowers, Mary Finlayson reveals, represent her mother: “Growing up, my mother owned a flower shop and would bring home the unsold flowers and hang them from the ceiling to dry.” Finlayson would watch them transition from one stage to another echoing their prior form but forever changed. The flowers celebrate Mary Finlayson’s time spent with her mother, immortalized in bright, joyous hues shielded from the impacts of time. 

HASHIMOTO CONTEMPORARY LOS ANGELES

2754 S La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90034

www.hashimotocontemporary.com

Gina M. Contrepas @ Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco - "Amor Secreto" Exhibition

Gina M. Contrepas: Amor Secreto

Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco

7 - 28 September, 2024

Secrets are complex. They teeter between the cherished and the concealed, between tenderness and shame. San Francisco-based artist Gina M. Contreras delves into the emotional turmoil of being a hidden lover in her solo exhibition Amor Secreto at Hashimoto Contemporary. Through lush, velvety colors and intricate patterns, Contreras unveils a new series of self-portraits that poignantly capture the loneliness of secrecy. These works reveal the layered nuances of intimate relationships, underscoring the complexity of what it means to be kept in the shadows.

Gina M. Contreras infuses her paintings with personal mementos—trinkets, fabrics, and religious icons that decorate the 20th-century trim of her apartment. In Gina la Cochina, the artist portrays herself nude in her bedroom, surrounded by provocative imagery: a reproduction of Isoda Koryusai’s print The Orgy, tiny dolls caught in erotic acts, and a vivid red devil figure hover above her, nodding to the playful nickname given to her, Gina La Cochina, or, “Gina the dirty one.” Meanwhile, Something More Than Has Already juxtaposes a tiger San Marcos Cobija and floral patterns on her bed as a faceless man gently touches her body. The scene is framed by paintings of religious male-female dynamics, subtly exploring superstitions and themes of secrecy and unspoken affection.

Gina M. Contreras’s subjects—herself and a recurring male figure—serve as both personal reflections and symbols of broader romantic patterns. The male figure sometimes appears realistic, caressing the artist in bed as she gazes at the ceiling, and other times as an imagined, almost childlike being, cradled in her arms. While these works depict feelings of sadness and isolation, moments of humor persist, such as the mustachioed baby-man in Wrong Way Loverboy. Each piece is a testament to vulnerability, balancing the weight of loneliness with a touch of irreverence, offering a window into the shared intricacies of the human experience.

HASHIMOTO CONTEMPORARY SAN FRANCISCO

Minnesota Street Project, 1275 Minnesota St., San Francisco, CA 94107

www.hashimotocontemporary.com

Michel McGregor Exhibition @ Hashimoto Contemporary, New York - Voyage, Voyage

Michel McGregor 

Voyage, Voyage 

Hashimoto Contemporary, New York

1 - 22 June 2024

Hashimoto Contemporary presents Voyage Voyage, a solo exhibition by LA-based artist Michel McGregor that explores the aesthetics of travel. Expanding on themes of leisure, luxury, and memory from his monograph ROOM SERVICE (Paragon Books), this exhibition of vibrant oil paintings and “point and shoot” drawings on hotel stationery invites viewers into a world that embraces fact, fiction, and fantasy, threading a needle between irony and sincerity, art and artifice. 

Employing brazen gestures and a vivid palette, Michel McGregor cross-references civilian, cinematic and commercial representations of travel in a series of new paintings and works on paper that confuse reality, fantasy, and desire. Building an atmosphere and color palette from sources like Henry Miller’s 1941 travelog Colossus of Maroussi, Federico Fellini’s film Amarcord, and the creamy hue of Venetian architecture, Michel McGregor recontextualizes that which is ubiquitous and familiar, making the unremarkable glow anew in a foreign light. In homage and with great reverence for the Impressionist and Fauvist painters who developed the genre for the modern age, the painter applies paint directly from the tube, reveals the underpaintings on raw canvas, and captures scenes “en plein air.” In subject matter and technique, Michel McGregor links himself to the history of portraying the world with reverence, optimism, and subtle critique.

The drawings immediately and intimately capture the fleeting moments of travel, while his paintings offer more clarified representations of places and moments, retaining the familiarity of a scene while shifting its essence into something novel, something distinctly different. Having spent the last year oscillating between Corfu, Hydra, Athens, Paris, the South of France, and Sicily, Michel McGregor’s flâneur observations playfully toy with European still life tradition, elevating food, toiletries, travel magazines, and other scenes of life from commonplace to romantic. 

HASHIMOTO CONTEMPORARY NYC

54 Ludlow Street, New York, NY 10002 

www.hashimotocontemporary.com

Casey Gray @ Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco - "Sweet Bountiful Life" Exhibition

Casey Gray: Sweet Bountiful Life

Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco

6 - 27 April 2024

Life isn't always sweet, but when it is, what's better than sharing that moment with others? In his fourth solo exhibition with Hashimoto Contemporary, Sweet Bountiful Life, Casey Gray focuses on the simple joys and beauty of food at the table as beacon for shared experience, community, and family. From monumental bouquets spilling over their vases to epic breakfast spreads fit for a king, Casey Gray's signature blend of acrylic spray paint and hand-cut masking techniques transform everyday rituals into exaggerated plenty. "Whether it's brunch, hors d'oeuvres, or just dessert," the artist mused, "the show is a testament to the enduring power of art and food to bring people together."

Maple syrup oozes over a stack of fluffy pancakes onto a long-loved serving dish; a prize winning fish tumbles onto the dining table; warmed brie melts onto a familiar ceramic plate. The teeming arrangements of culinary creations offer a visual and literal feast for the viewer. While the artworks lack figuration, it's abundantly clear that each meal was made to be shared. Gray's paintings are in no way balanced meals but rather "potluck style arrays of complimentary dishes, each with their own attitude and significance." The individual who brought donuts to Still Life with a Big Breakfast might not be eating a bowl of cornflakes with fruit; the selection of soft and hard cheeses garnished with nuts and figs in Still Life with Mostly Cheeses was assembled through group chat consultation. Each meal, rendered with exquisite detail and beaming with personality, has something for and from everyone, creating a portrait of loved ones gathered to not just eat but to indulge.

Casey Gray's works are boldly colored and meticulously configured, similar to European masters of the 16th and 17th centuries; groupings of certain fruits, meats, and treats offer symbols of bounty and pleasure. But, unlike the artists that inspire his work, Gray's paintings are optimistic and utopic, encompassing the sweetness found in various aspects of our journey. These are bounties to be shared, not hoarded. Together, the paintings offer moments we may recognize: tables we may have sat at with others, meals we may have shared, or gifts we may have given. When lived with others, life is sweet.

HASHIMOTO CONTEMPORARY

1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, CA 94107

www.hashimotocontemporary.com

Jean Jullien @ Hashimoto Contemporary, NYC - "LOLO" Exhibition

Jean Jullien: LOLO

Hashimoto Contemporary, New York

13 April - 4 May 2024

JEAN JULLIEN

LES PLANCHES, 2024

Gouache acrylic on linen canvas,18 1/8 x 24 in,46 x 61 cm

© Jean Jullien, Courtesy Hashimoto Contemporary

Through the sounds of sirens and clouds of pollution, it can be difficult to remember that cities are spaces made for people. Towering mountains, expansive forests, and rolling waves offer awe and respite, but their existence is not contingent upon ours. In his solo exhibition LOLO at Hashimoto Contemporary, the French artist Jean Jullien wonders if, despite being built by and for people, high-density apartment complexes and jammed subway cars are the best place for humans to live; And, if the alternatives of country living are as idyllic as they seem. With Jean Jullien’s typical witty humor, this new series of paintings and site-specific drawings offer musings over the paradox between desiring a calm, peaceful life in the countryside while craving the nightlife and company of the city. 

Employing swift, loose brushstrokes, Jean Jullien’s works are playful, even when he contemplates the larger questions of how and where to live the best life. The site specific drawings in the gallery muse on the cramped yet convivial environment of the city: from New York to Paris, these crowded metropolises have been sites of communion for the starry eyed, incubators for technical innovators, keepers of culture, history, and gourmanderie. They are also smelly, expensive, and, allegedly, dangerous, prompting the artist to wonder about those moments when he longs for escape.

His series of paintings depict small, anonymous figures punctuating the pastoral scenes of fields, oceans, alpines, beaches. These scenes are not celebrating the sublime chaos of nature but told from our small human perspective of the gentle serenity offered by a life in the sticks. Or so we imagine. In Jean Jullien’s depictions of our small clothed bodies enjoying natural wonders—from the sea to the sky—we notice how expansive the landscape is, how desolate and even lonely it can be. Cities will grow, shrink, rise, and crumble as humanity’s path blunders on, but nature’s indifference to us will long surpass our love of it.

JEAN JULLIEN is a French artist and graphic designer living and working in Paris. His practice ranges from painting and illustration to photography, video, costume, installations, books, posters and clothing to create a coherent yet eclectic body of work. Originally from Nantes, Jean Jullien completed a graphic design degree in Quimper before moving to London. He has since graduated from Central Saint Martins (2008) and from the Royal College of Art (2010). Jean has shown work around the world with museums and galleries in Paris, London, Brussels, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Berlin, Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore and beyond.

HASHIMOTO CONTEMPORARY

54 Ludlow Street, New York, NY 10002 

www.hashimotocontemporary.com

JEAN JULLIEN: www.jeanjullien.com

"Weird West" Exhibition @ Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles

Weird West

Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles

13 April - 4 May 2024

Popular culture has defined the cowboy by his riding boots, fringed leather pants, acute smoking habit, large bushy mustache, and stone-cold demeanor. Originally the spitting image of Americana, artists and filmmakers alike have recently queered, weirded, diversified, and otherwise transformed the macho cowboy into an icon for their communities. Spanning painting, sculpture, drawing, and photography, the group exhibition Weird West at Hashimoto Contemporary, curated by Miranda Evans, explores how the various lenses and voices of the American experience have changed Western iconography and its historical associations, revealing the contemporary cowboy’s metamorphosed identity.

Drew Christie creates surreal, mirage-like depictions of the land and its wild inhabitants, skewing our perspectives as the miles of open terrain might confuse a typical city-dweller. A horse runs through the sky like a cloud lifted by the wind; a buffalo crosses miles of desert as a painting on white fabric. Grace Kennison paints equally surreal Western icons like horses, mountains, and menacing cowgirls from the remote western frontier of the San Juan Valley, Colorado, though hers loom menacingly over the landscape. Hovering above canyons illuminated by car lights, a cowboy hat sports clown makeup and a golden cross necklace, suggesting the symbols of western expansion, while ubiquitous, are performative. 

Drawn from more intimate sources, Patrick Oates’s scenes of cowboys, horses, and lone churches cast a somber mood on the typically action-filled genre. The Australian artist depicts characters from his family tree in twilight blue, imagining the grief and sorrow of relatives he’s never met to become closer to the ones he has. Rendered in rich, earthy hues, Anthony Hurd’s cowboy lovers mix the tough, masculine ideal of the Wild West with the soft tenderness of newfound love. The artists in Weird West merge their own stories, cultures, and histories with the iconography of the Western genre, reimagining the icons of the American past to create a future that looks and feels like their weird realities. 

Also on view are works by Angela Burson, Jillian Evelyn, rafa esparza, Eleanor Foy, Becca Fuhrman, Yomahra Gonzalez, Fabian Guerrero, Christine Mai Nguyen, Kara Rose Marshall, Robert Martin, Christopher Martin, Luke Pelletier, Joel Daniel Phillips, Dylan Anthony Roworth, AP Shrewsbury, Madeleine Tonzi, Alex Ziv.

HASHIMOTO CONTEMPORARY

2754 La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90034

www.hashimotocontemporary.com