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Rachel Gregor - "Still Summer"

Past exhibition
11 November - 2 December 2023
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Overview
Painting of three females huddles together naked on a dock on a body of water with trees in the background

Hashimoto Contemporary is pleased to present Still Summer, a solo exhibition by Kansas City-based painter Rachel Gregor. The exhibition will be Gregor's debut solo exhibition at Hashimoto Contemporary. 

 

Opening Night Reception:

Saturday, November 11th

6pm - 8pm

 

Gallery Hours:

Tuesday - Saturday / 10am - 6pm

 

Hashimoto Contemporary LA

2754 S La Cienega Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90034

(Google Maps)

 

Advance Collector's Preview:

An advance collector's preview will be made available online before the exhibition opens, if you would like to receive a price list, please contact us at la@hashimotocontemporary.com

 
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Works
  • Painting of a half naked woman laying in the grass on her back facing the sky. There are several plants and small flowers surrounding her. She has yellow underwear on and orange short hair.
    Rachel Gregor, Mudtrout (Ophelia II), 2022
  • Painting of three naked women laying on the ground under trees with their heads resting on each others legs.
    Rachel Gregor, Still Summer, 2023
  • Painting of three naked women sitting on a dock under a tree next to a body of water. The women are huddled together on the ground looking in different directions bracing one another.
    Rachel Gregor, Bathers on a Dock, 2023
  • Painting of three women naked in a body of water floating near a buoy
    Rachel Gregor, Swim Area, 2022
  • Painting of two naked women in a body of water in the dark. They both have their arms raised above the water level facing each other.
    Rachel Gregor, Pond Weeds (Bathers after Alma-Tadema), 2022
  • Painting of a woman standing under a tree on grass wearing a large black hoodie sweatshirt with a circle logo on the front. Her hair is short and red. She has no pants on.
    Rachel Gregor, Poser I (Other than Morning View), 2023
  • Painting of a woman standing in a grassy area surrounded by trees in the background. The woman is touching her arm, wearing a large black t-shirt and no pants on.
    Rachel Gregor, Poser II (Besides Follow The Leader), 2023
  • Painting of two women standing close to each other, one with their back facing towards the viewer looking over their shoulder in a red bathing suit. The other is facing and looking at the other woman in an oversized t-shirt with her hair in a bun. In the background is a wood fence with plants growing on top.
    Rachel Gregor, Behind the Fence, 2023
  • Painting of a woman in a lounge chair in a backyard with a wooden fence and red roses in the background. She is a stripped bikini top with her arms on the armrest of a yellow and blue stripped lounge chair.
    Rachel Gregor, The Hand-Me-Down Bikini (Sunbather in Snapdragons), 2021
  • Painting of two naked women standing in front of a body of water with a small dock and several low hanging trees.
    Rachel Gregor, Stickleback, 2023
  • Painting of a woman naked in a body of water up to her waist in the dark
    Rachel Gregor, Stagnant, 2022
  • Painting of a woman with short blonde hair holding a tissue to her nose, she is wearing a cropped gray t-shirt
    Rachel Gregor, Nosebleed, 2023
  • Painting of a woman with her hair tied back wearing a t-shirt looking down onto some rising smoke and light, behind her is a wooden fence, a tree and a house with a light on in the window.
    Rachel Gregor, I Hate White Rabbits, 2023
  • Self portrait of the artist Rachel Gregor. Rachel is holding herself, one version is looking forward and the other has its arms wrapped around the others shoulders, her head faces away
    Rachel Gregor, Two Figures, 2023
  • Painting of a woman with pixie short hair holding cup to chest looking off into the distance
    Rachel Gregor, Big Gulp, 2023
  • Painting of two women with the faces touching one with short hair facing forward and scrunching her brow, the other facing to the right but eyes are facing straight with long hair
    Rachel Gregor, Double Portrait Study, 2023
  • Painting of a cinderblock surrounded by weeds next to a fence near the sidewalk
    Rachel Gregor, Backyard Refuse, Cinderblock, 2022
  • Painting of yellow flower weeds growing out of the cracks in pavement, in the background is a wooden fence.
    Rachel Gregor, Backyard Refuse, Rudbeckia, 2023
  • Painting of three red bricks on the ground surrounded by some weeds and fallen leaves next to a wooden fence
    Rachel Gregor, Backyard Refuse, Bricks, 2023
  • Portrait of two women, one with their head turned away showing side profile, the other facing forward looking at the other woman.
    Rachel Gregor, Tiepolo Study from Palazzo Labia, 2021
  • Painting of a woman holding a tissue to her eyes, looking off into the distance.
    Rachel Gregor, Nosebleed Study, 2023
Press release

LOS ANGELES—The rules of adolescent girlhood are convoluted and often unspoken, something painter Rachel Gregor seeks to highlight in her first solo exhibition with Hashimoto Contemporary, Still Summer.  The Kansas City-based painter portrays the summer before ninth grade (remembered through overexposed point-and-shoot film photos) as the tense passage into true young adulthood: newfound independence is at odds with a lack of agency, infantilization discredits budding knowledge about the world. Based on versions of herself, the characters in these new paintings are wolves in sheep’s clothing, rebelling to escape their physical and psychological barriers, or at least survive the small hell of Arcadian juvenility.

 

Casting her female figures out on their own or clustering them uncomfortably close, Gregor creates each composition through an amalgam of tense gestures and wide-eyed glances, locating repressed memories of teenage girlhood somewhere between the mundane and the melodramatic. These relationships are not the vapid or frivolous situations patriarchal society frames them as, but deeply emotional, contradictory, and fulfilling connections that transform lifetimes. Converging the theatrical figure positioning of Rococo painter Giambattista Tiepolo with the warped narrative sensibilities of the Brönte sisters, these works depict summer as an inescapable purgatory with no respite beyond the fences, fields, or trees that encircle the figures. These girls seem to conspire against something beyond the frame, pulling the viewer into the compositions’ confines so they might escape or, at the very least, commiserate.

 

The exhibition features several sub-series of works hinting at Gregor’s autobiography, including a diptych of “poser” girls wearing t-shirts by Nu Metal bands, a genre of hardcore music popular in the mid-1990s and dominated by young angry white men. “I was very drawn to it,” Gregor writes, “there was comfort in anger.” The image of a small American midwestern girl in an aggressive band’s shirt felt pitiful but compelling, “like a small animal backed into a corner, afraid it will have to attack.” Whether nude and nymph-like or clothed and self-conscious, each girl represents a threat dismissed to provide a false sense of security, wicked misguidance wrapped in supple flesh, and an assumption of frailty. When you’re 13, summer is not marked by moments of euphoria but by miserable perseverance. Despite their rage, it is still summer.

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Installation Views
  • Installation image of Rachel Gregor's solo exhibition Still Summer at Hashimoto Contemporary Los Angeles
  • Installation image of Rachel Gregor's solo exhibition Still Summer at Hashimoto Contemporary Los Angeles
  • Installation image of Rachel Gregor's solo exhibition Still Summer at Hashimoto Contemporary Los Angeles
  • Installation image of Rachel Gregor's solo exhibition Still Summer at Hashimoto Contemporary Los Angeles
  • Installation image of Rachel Gregor's exhibition Hashimoto Contemporary LA
  • Installation image of Rachel Gregor's solo exhibition Still Summer at Hashimoto Contemporary Los Angeles
  • Installation image of Rachel Gregor's solo exhibition Still Summer at Hashimoto Contemporary Los Angeles
  • Installation image of Rachel Gregor's solo exhibition Still Summer at Hashimoto Contemporary Los Angeles
  • Installation image of Rachel Gregor's solo exhibition Still Summer at Hashimoto Contemporary Los Angeles
  • Installation image of Rachel Gregor's solo exhibition Still Summer at Hashimoto Contemporary Los Angeles
  • Installation image of Rachel Gregor's solo exhibition Still Summer at Hashimoto Contemporary Los Angeles
  • Installation image of Rachel Gregor's solo exhibition Still Summer at Hashimoto Contemporary Los Angeles
  • Installation image of Rachel Gregor's solo exhibition Still Summer at Hashimoto Contemporary Los Angeles
  • Installation image of Rachel Gregor's solo exhibition Still Summer at Hashimoto Contemporary Los Angeles
  • Installation image of Rachel Gregor's solo exhibition Still Summer at Hashimoto Contemporary Los Angeles
  • Installation image of Rachel Gregor's solo exhibition Still Summer at Hashimoto Contemporary Los Angeles
News
  • Opening Reception: Rachel Gregor "Still Summer"

    Opening Reception: Rachel Gregor "Still Summer"

    November 21, 2023
    Artist Rachel Gregor between her works Poser I (Other Than a Morning View) and Poser II (Besides Follow the Leader) Though Rachel Gregor's paintings of...
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New York, NY 10002

San Francisco:

Minnesota Street Project

1275 Minnesota St. 

San Francisco, CA 94107

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