Rakeem Cunningham: Hero (pictured) June 26 - July 7, 2021 Ochi Projects is pleased to announce Rakeem Cunningham: Hero, the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery featuring new photographs and a large-scale installation that portray the artist and his abundant selves as he plays and poses alone in the studio informed and surrounded by a multiverse of niche subcultures. Each portrait is a declaration of subjectivity and existence—proof of self-validation and an ongoing healing journey that expands upon an outdated definition of hero. --------------- Matthew F Fisher: Seas June 26 - July 7, 2021 Ochi Projects is pleased to announce Matthew F Fisher: Seas, the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Compact in scale, each painting depicts the shore, a continuation of an ongoing body of work. As water meets land or sand or doesn’t, Fisher occasionally proffers a seashell, a reflection, grass, celestial bodies, or atmospheric conditions—but nothing happens and that is the point. Is it possible to make a painting about nothing? Like a paradoxical riddle, Fisher’s paintings allude to the inadequacy of logical reasoning in relation to memory—two nearly identical paintings of waves are titled Freedom of Emptiness and History of Books (both 2021).