Paper View 2: Group Show Exhibition

One last exhibition in NYC to close out 2024 and it's a good one!

Shown Above: The Wrestlers

Shown Above: Sun is Shining & Music of the Spheres

These  pieces are Monotypes: Oil Based Ink on Paper - I lay the paper over a fully inked plexiglass plate and draw on the back of the paper, resulting in a beautifully spontaneous textured imprint on the front.

Shown Above: Love Dance & Love Song

OFFICIAL SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE HOLE

Aaron Elvis Jupin, Adèle Aproh, Alfred Steiner, Allison Zuckerman, Alphachanneling, Amy Lincoln, Ania Hobson, Anja Salonen, Anthony Iacono, Augustina Wang, Austin English, Aurel Schmidt, Ayé Aton, Barbara Nessim, Barry McGee, Bianca Fields, Canyon Castator, Carl Krull, Chris Johanson, Conrad Ruiz, Cory Feder, Dan Attoe, Dani Tull, Eddie Martinez, Emma Kohlmann, Gabi Dunayski, Gabriela Silva Myers-Lipton, Ginny Casey, James Ulmer, JJ Manford, Joakim Ojanen, Jordan Kasey, József Csato, Julian Adon Alexander, Karl Wirsum, Katsu Sawada, Kembra Pfahler, Kevin McNamee-Tweed, Lee Dawson, Leo Park, Luke O'Halloran, Maddy Inez, Marika Thunder, Matt Furie, Matt Leines, Michael Gac Levin, Monica Kim Garza, Namio Harukawa, Nat Meade, Nick Dahlen, Nigel Howlet, Paul Riedmüller, Paul Wackers, Pedro Pedro, Peter Opheim, Philip Gerald, Prinston Nnanna, Richard Tinkler, Robert Pokorny, Rowley Haynes, Ryan Travis Christian, Sally Kindberg, Samual Weinberg, Shingo Yamazaki, Sofia Pashaei, Steven Gavenas, Stickymonger, Taylor McKimens, Taylor White, Theo Rosenblum and Chelsea Seltzer, Thomas Trum, Tida Whitney Lek, Tim Gardner, Todd James, Tyler Loftis, and many more

The Hole is proud to present Paper View II, a second installment of our 2019 works on paper-fest on Bowery. With over eighty artists and a hundred included pieces, our fest has grown this year: the show is a true celebration of the medium with a broad assortment of techniques and styles. From colorful and detailed oil pastels to sparse swipes of charcoal or graphite, artists use works on paper for a variety of reasons: preparatory sketching for painting and sculpture is just the beginning and many artists included in this show choose paper as their sole medium. Paper can be quick, portable, accessible: to emphasize this we cover the gallery walls with cork board and pin everything up unframed like a giant bulletin board.

Our love of paper began with Panic Room curated by Kathy Grayson and Jeffrey Deitch at the Deste Foundation in Athens in 2006, where underground artists from Providence, RI and San Francisco met blue chip artists and was the debut of many now-major names. David Shrigley and Paper Rad, Tauba Auerbach and Mat Brinkman, Margaret Kilgallen and Elliott Hundley; we tried to capture that depth and structure with Paper View thirteen years later, and had many repeat offenders (Xylor Jane, Chris Johanson) as well as debuting that year’s top new talent like Anna Park, Grace Weaver, and Cristina BanBan, as well as new regions of excitement like Japan with Susumu Kamijo and Koichi Sato.

For our final show of 2024 we give you the best of what is happening on tree pulp today. In Allison Zuckerman’s Day of Rest Study #1 and Day of Rest Study #2, we see the artists mind a-whirrin’, annotations plotting out the references and details for what appears to be plans for a painting. In Dan Attoe's Accretion Drawing LXXIX (79), we get an inside peek at this practice which included daily drawings with racy little texts. Meanwhile in the detailed painted collages of Anthony Iacono and the monochromatic framing of Jordan Kasey we see works clear and confident that paper is their final form.

And in honor of the show’s name bestowed on us by Brian Chippendale, we try to turn up the seedy sizzle: in Philip Gerald’s Sexy Tree we get a flash by pre-paper with a hint of “pay per view”, Alphachanneling returns with some erotic drawings that had Jerry Saltz all riled up, Alfred Steiner's Cream is too-hot for network TV and Namio Harukawa’s BDSM pencil protagonists dominate. Swedes Sally Kindberg and Leo Park are a bit more demure, mindful, while Aurel Schmidt of course remains full-frontal.

This show is jam-packed so please grab a guide at the front; we are delighted to include so many familiar faces from the first Paper View like Barry McGee, Anthony Iacono, Taylor McKimens, Prinston Nnanna, Ryan Travis Christian, Samual Weinberg, and many more! If we wrote even just one sentence about each artist this email would be endless; we’re grateful to all the artists, consignors and Hole staff that added their paper pals to the fest. Breaking down the classical hierarchy of media takes a village!