Abigail Goldman - "Shadow Work"
SAN FRANCISCO - Hashimoto Contemporary is pleased to present Shadow Work, a solo exhibition by Abigail Goldman. The artist returns for her third solo show with the gallery featuring a new series of wickedly clever miniature dioramas resembling everyday sceneries of homes, storefronts and city streets. These seemingly innocent representations are clashed with murderous characters creating a strange, small universe where chaos reigns.
Shadow Work's collection of plastic sculptures are in 1:87 scale – part of an ongoing series of small works the artist calls ‘dieoramas’. The small tableaus feature figures under an inch tall that, at first glance, appear to be simple, suburban scenes – a bedroom, a bathroom, a bucolic backyard barbecue. On closer inspection, the ‘dieoramas’ are miniature mayhem: bodies are dismembered, blood flows, weapons are raised, forks are poised to dine on flesh. This juxtaposition – cute miniatures busy with savage and brutal cruelties – is meant to disarm the viewer with a surprise send-up of violence that has become almost banal in American culture. For many people, a jaw-clenching rage runs just under the surface, becoming an undercurrent that bubbles up through cracks and fissures in our culture, which is always more angry, more aggressive, more inured to the inhumane and vile.
The title 'Shadow Work' is taken from psychiatrist Carl Jung’s concept of the “shadow self” archetype – the repressed, dark aspects of personality that, if left unexplored, becomes only “blacker and denser.” These ‘dieoramas’ represent their own kind of shadow work; a medium that mines the depths of gallows humor and provides a kind of catharsis, containing our collective rage and making it cute, laying bare our shadow selves that are always there, anxious, angry and ready to snap.
The exhibition will be on view March 5th - March 26th with an opening reception Saturday, March 5th from 1pm to 7pm. For more information or to request the online collector's preview, please email SF@hashimotocontemporary.com
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Abigail Goldman, Cliffhanger, 2016
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Abigail Goldman, Keep A Lawyer On Speed Dial, 2017
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Abigail Goldman, Hydration Is Important, 2016
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Abigail Goldman, NIMBY, 2022
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Abigail Goldman, Mistakes Were Made, 2022
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Abigail Goldman, Chum, 2022
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Abigail Goldman, Van Life, 2022
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Abigail Goldman, Late Lunch , 2022
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Abigail Goldman, Psssst, 2022
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INSTALLATION: ABIGAIL GOLDMAN "SHADOW WORK"
March 8, 2022Hashimoto Contemporary San Francisco is pleased to present 'Shadow Work' a new solo exhibition by Abigail Goldman. Visit our online calendar here to schedule an...Read more -
OPENING RECEPTION: ABIGAIL GOLDMAN "SHADOW WORK"
March 8, 2022Thank you so much to everyone who came out to the opening of Abigail Goldman's solo show 'Shadow Work' at Hashimoto Contemporary San Francisco! It...Read more