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For his first solo presentation with Hauser & Wirth in New York City, Gary Simmons will introduce
a new body of work advancing his decades-long exploration into issues that haunt our national psyche––race,
representation and collective identity. ‘Thin Ice’ debuts sculpture, paintings and drawings––including a sequence
of canvases that isolate and re-purpose archetypical racialized imagery from cartoons of the 1920s and early
1930s, and a site-specific wall drawing referencing one of the most iconic films of the 1960s––to capture the
instability and disorientation of the current American …