The Hole NYC is pleased to present BLUES, an exhibition of 10 new paintings by Alex Gardner on view from November 19th - December 27th, 2020. The etheric pastel paintings on view in BLUES extend familiar tropes from the Long Beach-based artist’s practice, refracted through the minor-key spirit that 2020’s harsh realities have wrought. With nine of the works completed since the onset of …
The Hole NYC is pleased to present BLUES, an exhibition of 10 new paintings by Alex Gardner on view from November 19th - December 27th, 2020. The etheric pastel paintings on view in BLUES extend familiar tropes from the Long Beach-based artist’s practice, refracted through the minor-key spirit that 2020’s harsh realities have wrought. With nine of the works completed since the onset of COVID-19—and one, distinctly, before the dawn of that now ever-present doom—BLUES telegraphs a shift in the artist’s psychology, a turn registering the discomfort of being bound to his studio as he watched the …
