Felix Art Fair 2024
Press Release (Cycle VIII): 0101
February 28th - March 3rd, 2024
Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Booth 1139
7000 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028
Storage joins Felix Art Fair 2024 to present Press Release (Cycle VIII): 0101, with works by Sebastian Burger, Adam Lupton, Kathryn Goshorn, and Barbara Nitke in extension of Press Release (Cycle VIII), which continues the gallery’s ongoing, rotational exhibition survey of international and overlooked artists.
Storage travels to Los Angeles, revealing Press Release (Cycle VIII): 0101 as an assimilation into the West Coast atmosphere of technological advancement with dealings of metal, the mirror image, and rupture as synaptic mediation of machine and body. In our era of artificial intelligence, the physical presence of machinery increasingly urges an overlap with the realization of the conscious mind, bringing into focus the question between recorded episodes and AI miming: “but, what is Actual?”
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Sebastian Burger (b. 1980) develops superfine oil paintings that nearly mimic the mechanical touch of an airbrush. As a technician trained in fine oil rendering that takes months to produce, Burger chooses to work on aluminum, countering the antiquation of canvas or linen substrates. The resultant thin profile of his work marks a physical reminder of technological advancement, meanwhile the meticulous yet stylized imagery demonstrates the counteractive embrace of surrealistic influences. The comparison of human and technology echoes throughout Burger’s investigations, be it in the flesh-tone almost as if sampled from a construction manual, or in the adept direction of the viewer’s gaze from the evidence of organic input to a subsequent machine response
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Adam Lupton (b. 1987) overlays stamping and printmaking on the surfaces of his alternate self-portrait paintings, representative of his interface with the external world. Influenced by Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), where his everyday existence is filled with rituals of reassurance, mantras, and projections, Lupton juxtaposes constraints and freedoms of the intellectual expanse with the utility of the earthly body, in a reconciliation of depressive retreat and cyborg taxonomy. With the inclusion of photographic space, Lupton observes a formerly valued testimonial of chronistic events in transition, reflecting the uncertain value of synthetic machine media and the sentimental entity of natural emotion.
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Kathryn Goshorn (b. 1991) builds images in depiction of the human condition, the purpose of life and how behavior can affect its quality. Goshorn contemplates a duty to understand the space we take up and our influence as we move through the world and interact, leaving those echoes of action, or cause and effect, where the effect is irreparable and one is left to speculate about the cause.
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Barbara Nitke (b. 1950) is a photographer whose focus spans from behind-the-scenes of hardcore porn sets to constructed narratives and portraiture. Working in the 80s of Downtown New York City, Nitke reveals the female gaze in the male-dominated adult film industry of the 80s in Downtown New York City. By capturing the elegant connections between actors, Nitke observes the nuanced entity of the self in both physical and spiritual realizations.
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Storage is an artist-run gallery founded by Onyedika Chuke on the ideals of community, discovery, and connoisseurship. Located in Tribeca and with a viewing room on the Bowery, Storage acts as an archive of makers that work in a range of materials and come from a wide demographic background. Half of the roster is dedicated to reinvigorating the careers of artists of historical prominence, while the other half focuses on nurturing rising artists.