James Esber
Aug 28th - Sep 17th

James Esber uses a variety of media to disassemble and distort the emotionally charged and often clichéd images of Americana, prodding figuration toward abstraction. The characters he’s drawn to, pawed-over icons of popular culture, include things like gunslingers, flag-wavers, dimpled children holding flowers, and tattooed hipsters. His paintings, built through a process of hyperbolic mark-making, are done with myopic focus on each part, shifting between scales and allowing for improvised digressions which turn bodies and faces into abstracted landscapes of meandering marks. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.