In our latest exhibition with Naotaka Hiro, he explores some roots of his process and echoes back to his early practice, starting when he was 18 and first moved to America. The title, Two Worlds explores the notion of how the works are made and their psychological underpinnings. Two Worlds, 2024, is a diptych of two extra-large wood […]
Over his career, Paul McCarthy has made a name for himself as a kind of debased Renaissance man, creating massive, big-budget productions, but often appearing in his films with his pants off or covered in ketchup. His multi-genre practice often calls upon archetypes from American culture; Disney is a common motif. At The Box, a […]
Naotaka Hiro paints with his whole body. The artist stands inside of holes cut into his canvas, wrapping the material around himself and painting in a tent-like cocoon. As such, each of his paintings on view downtown at The Box map the capacities—and limitations—of his own body. Arranged in the center of the gallery are […]
