Kate Mosher Hall: The Reminder

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Kate Mosher Hall, "3,000 lbs," 2022

acrylic on canvas, 84 x 82 inches. Courtesy the artist and Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles.

OPENING RECEPTION: THU, JUN 8 / 7 – 9PM

Kate Mosher Hall’s recent work queries positionalities – how differences in social position and power shape identity and access in society – and considers the potential of what bodies can perceive within an image, as well as how modes of reproduction in painting and printmaking practices allow for experiences available to bodies of survivorship.

The Reminder consists of halftone wag, a swing within a temporal frame in the elongated, endless minutes of survival. Acute imaginations, and the reminder of a traumatic event, are filtered and distilled to greyscale, and simplified information is assigned to relevant categories that require a constant and sustained awareness: with, behind, looking through, diffusion, in front of, covered up, opacity, unknown.

Hall subverts the physiological way that we perceive the appearance of colour and shades, obfuscating content by layering ink, with emphasis on negative spaces present as an allegory to othered perspectives. The paintings carry a density of illusion that oscillates in relation to how a viewer orients their own body adaptively to the work.