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Angela Fang Zirbes - "House & Ghosts"

Past exhibition
15 March - 5 April 2025 Hashimoto Contemporary NYC
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Overview
Angela Fang Zirbes black and white painting of woman's reflection in a photo frame. Photo of farm

Hashimoto Contemporary is pleased to present House & Ghosts,  a solo exhibition by Iowa-based artist Angela Fang Zirbes. The exhibition will be Fang Zirbes' debut solo exhibition. 

 

Opening Night Reception:

Saturday, March 15th

6pm - 8pm

The artist will be in attendance

 

Gallery Hours: 

Tuesday - Saturday / 10am - 6pm

Exhibition on view through April 5th

 

Hashimoto Contemporary NYC

54 Ludlow Street

New York, NY 10002

(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 nyc@hashimotocontemporary.com

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Works
  • black and white painting of a ghost rabbit floating in a living room
    Angela Fang Zirbes, Rabbit In Living Room, 2025
  • black and white painting of a girl holding a lit match
    Angela Fang Zirbes, Holding a Match, 2025
  • black and white close up painting of a girl in a hallway from her chest to the her eyes
    Angela Fang Zirbes, Wood Panel Hallway, 2025
  • black and white painting on a cake with candles sitting on a table
    Angela Fang Zirbes, Curtain, Birthday Cake and Chair (in frame), 2024
  • black and white painting of a ghost rabbit with a chair behind it
    Angela Fang Zirbes, Rabbit and Chair, 2025
  • black and white painting of two hands holding a jar with.a rabbit on it
    Angela Fang Zirbes, Holding Pao Cai Jar, 2025
  • black and white painting of two hands holding a rabbit with a black frame
    Angela Fang Zirbes, Posed Rabbit (in frame), 2024
  • black and white painting of a hand opening a curtain
    Angela Fang Zirbes, Looking Through Kitchen Door, 2025
  • black and white painting of a girl looking at a picture frame
    Angela Fang Zirbes, Looking at Picture Frame, 2024
  • Angela Fang Zirbes black and white painting of rabbit
    Angela Fang Zirbes, Rabbit with Ribbon (in frame), 2025
  • Angela Fang Zirbes black and white painting of house
    Angela Fang Zirbes, Portrait of The House (in frame), 2025
  • black and white painting of a close of of a door knob
    Angela Fang Zirbes, Door Knob Detail, 2025
  • Angela Fang Zirbes painting of skeleton key and beaded bracelet
    Angela Fang Zirbes, Skeleton Key and Bracelet, 2025
Press release

 NEW YORK CITY—Hashimoto Contemporary is pleased to present House & Ghosts, the debut solo exhibition of Angela Fang Zirbes. 

 

Set within the backdrop of an old rural house, ghosts and their haunted objects appear within carefully decorated striped and wood paneled interiors. Executed in a monochromatic palette, the paintings are reminiscent of an old aging photograph, like calling upon a long forgotten memory. 

 

Inspired by common decor typically found within old country homes, faux wooden frames encase relics and imagined memories of a life once lived, serving as memories of the ghosts past 'in life'. These domestic depictions illustrate the restrictions of life through the use of traditional compositions, smaller scale imagery, and rigid posture. 

 

By contrast, the second group of works depict ghosts and their haunted objects appearing within uncanny interiors with unusual cropping and oversized subjects. Here the figures appear weightless and soft, untethered to the restrictions of a life once lived. Isolation serves as the ghostly figure's ultimate freedom. Free of societal expectations, they do not acknowledge the viewer, uninterested as they no longer abide by the rules of the living – instead ruminating on past memories and events. The paintings serve as a representation of how the apparitions feel larger in death than in the life they lived when ‘in frame’. While free, the ghosts are ultimately confined to what they knew and experienced in their previous life, trapped inside the very house they haunt. 

 

This body of work reflects the isolating experience of navigating an identity rooted in liminality as a biracial person -- caught between realities, both real and imagined. The ghosts in these works echo this in-between state, neither fully belonging to the world they haunt or the one they left behind. These paintings explore the tension between belonging and estrangement, presenting a haunted landscape that is both personal and political, reckoning with the myths of American identity and the uncertain realities that lurk beneath. 

 

Join us for the opening of House & Ghosts on Saturday, March 15th with a reception from 6-8 pm. The artist will be present. The exhibition will be on view through Saturday, April 5th. For additional information, images, or press requests, please email NYC@HashimotoContemporary.com 

Installation Views
  • Installation view of Angela Fang Zirbes exhibition "House & Ghosts" featuring various grey scale paintings
  • Installation view of Angela Fang Zirbes exhibition "House & Ghosts" featuring grey scale paintings on white walls
  • Installation view of Angela Fang Zirbes exhibition "House & Ghosts" featuring greyscale paintings on white walls
  • Installation view of Angela Fang Zirbes exhibition "House & Ghosts" featuring greyscale paintings on three white walls
  • Installation view of Angela Fang Zirbes exhibition "House & Ghosts" featuring greyscale paintings on three white walls
  • Installation view of Angela Fang Zirbes exhibition "House & Ghosts" featuring two greyscale paintings on a white wall
  • Installation view of Angela Fang Zirbes exhibition "House & Ghosts" featuring greyscale paintings on white walls
  • Installation view of Angela Fang Zirbes exhibition "House & Ghosts" featuring two greyscale paintings on a white wall
  • Installation view of Angela Fang Zirbes exhibition "House & Ghosts" featuring greyscale paintings on white walls
News
  • Opening Reception: Angela Fang Zirbes "House & Ghosts"

    Opening Reception: Angela Fang Zirbes "House & Ghosts"

    March 15, 2025
    Thank you so much to everyone who came out to the opening of Angela Fang Zirbes solo exhibition House & Ghosts at Hashimoto Contemporary New...
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New York, NY 10002

San Francisco:

Minnesota Street Project

1275 Minnesota St. 

San Francisco, CA 94107

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