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Hannah Antalek, 'Halobate', 2023, oil on canvas, 30”x 42”
Exhibition
SUPERSEED
11 Nov 2023 – 24 Dec 2023
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 15:30
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 15:30
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 15:30
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 15:30
- Friday
- 11:00 – 15:30
Free admission
Address
- 5-50 51st Avenue
- New York
New York - 11101
- United States
Travel Information
- 7 subway line to Vernon Blvd / Jackson Ave (one stop from Grand Central Station) and G line to 21st street
5-50 Gallery is proud to present SUPERSEED, a solo show featuring all new paintings by Hannah Antalek. The show will be on view from November 11th through December 24th, with an opening reception on the 11th of November, 4-7pm.
About
5-50 Gallery is proud to present SUPERSEED, a solo show featuring all new paintings by Hannah Antalek. Known for her drawings, the artist recently reintroduced painting to her artistic practice. Antalek’s work explores imaginary landscapes, while serving as a reminder of the impending climate crisis and humanity’s role in the destruction of nature.In SUPERSEED, Antalek paintings depict the hypothetical evolution of plant and fungal forms into sentient anthropomorphized “daisy dupes” in light of a world inextricably altered by human intervention. These paintings imagine new botanical and mycological life. Here, self-sustaining biological processes inherited in response to our attempts to geoengineer the environment, have created a replication of a life form that is familiar, but not immediately recognizable.
Through the language of the fantastic, SUPERSEED calls attention to our increased alienation from nature. It imagines the haunted, yet beautiful and luminescent results of the apathetic actions that are speeding us towards environmental collapse. Mysteriously backlit in vivid tones, each color cast is evocative of an unknown light source that might insinuate the presence of a second sun, a foreign moon, the heat or chill of a nearby chemical glow. The phorphorescent glimmer insinuates less a post-apocalyptic future than the promise of the capacity for adaptation and resilience across all life forms. Yet as human beings, the exhibition asks an important question: will there be an ultimate reciprocity amongst humans and nature, or will one take the place of the other?
