ALEX HUBBARD: THE CORNER OF THE TABLE
6750 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90038
Saturday, November 16 at 6:00 PM 8:00 PM
Ends Dec 21, 2019
Regen Projects is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Alex Hubbard. On view will be a selection of new works comprising multimedia paintings and two handmade projectors streaming animated videos. Hubbard has often experimented with various media to extend the prescribed characteristics of both painting and video. The moving image has always been an integral thematic of Hubbard’s practice. His early video works often render a series of alternating acts of construction and deconstruction across a flattened plane while proposing a visual allegiance to painting. With these new works comes a series of questions concerning the position of video in a post-YouTube era. The two projectors display referential animations — recycling elements of Hubbard's past videos while alluding to the history of structuralist films. Each projector's animations — one a surrealist landscape, the other a hand-drawn layered composition — feature colorful kinetic forms that play out on the gallery walls. Hubbard’s paintings combine the language of abstraction with nontraditional, industrial materials like resin, fiberglass, pigmented urethane, and auto-body paint. In this series of paintings Hubbard has employed a new UV printing technology. Each composition is achieved through a multi-layered process of paint pours and printing. While still employing abstract compositions, traces of the figurative are present through cut-out prints of machinery and quotidian objects.