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'Poverty / Porn: Steve Hash and Andy Warhol' opens at Chase Contemporary |
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Steve Hash. Photo: BFA/David Prutting.
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NEW YORK, NY.- On Friday, May 3, artist Steve Hash debuted Poverty / Porn, a two-person exhibition of concrete sculptures by Steve Hash and late black-and-white paintings and works on paper by Andy Warhol. This marked the gallerys first exhibition with Los Angeles-based artist Steve Hash and his first exhibition in New York.
The exhibition engenders a dialogue between Steve Hash and the late Andy Warhol. Both Hash and Warhol grew up in poverty, heavily immersed in religious ideologies. Warhol (1928-87) was a Ruthenian Catholic and son of a coal miner in depression-era Pittsburgh, PA. Hash (b. 1982) was raised in a radicalized Christian community in rural Mississippi, the son of a construction worker. Warhol was able to elevate the quotidian commodities of American life into the realm of fine art. Similarly, Hash transforms every day, accessible materials into elegant forms.
Poverty / Porn features sculptures from three of Hashs ongoing bodies of work; Voids, Nurture vs Nature and Clotheslines. The hollow, self-supporting figures from Hashs Voids are formed from concrete-infused cotton toweling. They employ the use of drapery as a means to dissolve innate perceptions of the individual, dissolving social identifiers that would otherwise indicate gender, race, or socioeconomic class. This use of common materials is a constant theme in Hashs work. In The Pity I (Plank), a concrete-draped figure is supported by a simple wooden plank, recalling both classical renaissance works in marble and the 1973 post-minimal work by artist Charles Ray.
Alongside Hashs figurative sculptures, one is confronted with the artists Clothesline works consisting of socks, briefs and undershirts, hung from steel wire and frozen in concrete. His Nurture Versus Nature series includes tall, precariously balanced totems, erected from casting the interior space of used milk jugs, canned food, beer cans or cigarette packs. All are cast from the contents of containers which Hash himself has consumed over a specific course of time.
Warhols late black and white works appear to be a deliberate departure from the polished, celebrity-obsessed Pop Art he became famous for. Warhols works chosen for this exhibition pull from source material indicative of his early days in advertising. Warhol depicted adverts of everyday commodities with hand-hewn sensibilities, while concurrently exploring themes of spirituality and religion as seen in the artists screen print on silk scarf titled The Only Way Out is In! from 1984. A direct reference to Osho, The Only Way Out is In! depicts a figure seated in the lotus position under the image of the All-seeing eye.
Hash was born in Santa Barbara, CA and raised in the De Soto National Forest in southern Mississippi. He later moved to New York City where he worked as a creative director for a major record label, and currently lives and works as an artist in Los Angeles, CA. Since his 2018 debut at Los Angeless HILDE Gallery, which received a Critics Pick review in Art Forum, Hash has exhibited at L.A. Louver, Bombay Beach Biennale, Marfa Invitational and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. He received a Directors Choice at Art Miami for his Mother I and Child I sculptures in 2018.
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