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Abigail Goldman : Shadow Work

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  • Abigail Goldman : Shadow Work

    On View in San Francisco at Hashimoto Contemporary : March 5th - 26th, 2022

    Please email SF@hashimotocontemporary.com with any inquries

    • Abigail Goldman, Keep A Lawyer On Speed Dial, 2017
      Abigail Goldman, Keep A Lawyer On Speed Dial, 2017
    • miniature of a person burying a body
      Abigail Goldman, Hydration Is Important, 2016
    • Abigail Goldman, Cliffhanger, 2016
      Abigail Goldman, Cliffhanger, 2016
    • Abigail Goldman, Target Practice, 2019
      Abigail Goldman, Target Practice, 2019
    • Abigail Goldman, Clean Booths, Messy Trunk, 2019
      Abigail Goldman, Clean Booths, Messy Trunk, 2019
    • Abigail Goldman's sculpture of a murder in a bedroom Abigail Goldman's sculpture of a peeping tom
      Abigail Goldman, Getting to Know the Neighbors, 2022
    • Abigail Goldman, NIMBY, 2022
      Abigail Goldman, NIMBY, 2022
    • Abigail Goldman, Mistakes Were Made, 2022
      Abigail Goldman, Mistakes Were Made, 2022
    • Abigail Goldman's sculpture of a parking lot and market
      Abigail Goldman, Corner Market, 2022
    • Abigail Goldman's sculpture of four rooms
      Abigail Goldman, Dinner with Friends, 2022
    • Abigail Goldman's sculpture of a murder in a bedroom Abigail Goldman's sculpture of a kitchen and dinning room scene
      Abigail Goldman, Fine Dining, 2022
    • Abigail Goldman's sculpture of a murder in a bedroom Abigail Goldman's sculpture of a murder in a RV
      Abigail Goldman, Downsizing, 2022
    • Abigail Goldman's sculpture of a murder taking place outdoors in a white van
      Abigail Goldman, Van Life, 2022
    • Abigail Goldman's sculpture of a shark attack
      Abigail Goldman, Chum, 2022
    • Abigail Goldman's sculpture of a murder in a bedroom
      Abigail Goldman, Bless This Mess, 2022
    • Abigail Goldman's sculpture of various body parts in a vending machine
      Abigail Goldman, Dream Vending Machine, 2022
    • Abigail Goldman's sculpture of a murder in a bedroom Abigail Goldman's sculpture of two people eating a man at the kitchen table
      Abigail Goldman, Feasting on Our Enemies, 2022
    • Abigail Goldman's sculpture of a murder in a bedroom Abigail Goldman's sculpture of a murder scene in a bedroom
      Abigail Goldman, Goodbye, Granny, 2022
    • Abigail Goldman's sculpture of a murder in a bedroom Abigail Goldman's sculpture of a murder scene
      Abigail Goldman, Instant Promotion, 2022
    • Abigail Goldman's sculpture of a living room murder scene
      Abigail Goldman, Kindling, 2022
    • Abigail Goldman's sculpture of a diner murder scene
      Abigail Goldman, Late Lunch , 2022
    • Abigail Goldman's sculpture of Donald Trump in a cell
      Abigail Goldman, MAGA, 2022
    • Abigail Goldman's sculpture of a kitchen murder scene
      Abigail Goldman, Mamma Tried, 2022
    • Abigail Goldman's sculpture of an office murder scene
      Abigail Goldman, Management Material, 2022
    • Abigail Goldman's sculpture of a yoga murder scene
      Abigail Goldman, Namaste, 2022
    • Abigail Goldman's sculpture of a bedroom murder scene
      Abigail Goldman, Not Sorry, 2022
    • Abigail Goldman's sculpture of a flasher
      Abigail Goldman, Psssst, 2022
    • Abigail Goldman's sculpture of bathroom murder scene
      Abigail Goldman, Rinse and Repeat, 2022
    • Abigail Goldman's sculpture of a murder scene with Santa on Christmas morning
      Abigail Goldman, Santa Snaps, 2022
    • Abigail Goldman's sculpture of a murder scene taking place in a bedroom with someone taped to the wall
      Abigail Goldman, Secret Hobbies, 2022
    • Abigail Goldman's sculpture of a murder scene taking place in a bedroom
      Abigail Goldman, Swipe Right, 2022
    • Abigail Goldman's sculpture of a murder scene in a living room
      Abigail Goldman, What Happens to the Heart, 2022
  • a photo of Artist Abigail Goldman

    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.

New York City:

54 Ludlow St.

New York, NY 10002

San Francisco:

Minnesota Street Project

1275 Minnesota St. 

San Francisco, CA 94107

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