Paper View II

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