Visuals Available Upon Request FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 18, 2021 Contact: Kelly Brand, 503.224.0521, [email protected] Lonnie Holley, Looking for Answers in the Clouds, 2021, spray paint and mixed media on paper, 29 x 24" framed September 2 - October 30, 2021 Print Wall: Jacob Hashimoto The Necessary Invention of the Mind Through October 2, 2021 Dinh Q. Lê Monuments and Memorials New Photo-weavings Lonnie Holley The Influence of Images New Works on Paper ____________________________ For the next Print Wall, Elizabeth Leach Gallery is pleased to highlight Jacob Hashimoto’s prints from the series titled The Necessary Invention of the Mind. The multilayered color works on paper combine relief and silkscreen and will be on view in the gallery and online to celebrate Hashimoto's recent large scale installation at the Portland International Airport. The prints feature Hashimoto’s signature kite imagery in dynamic compositions that reference virtual space, natural environments and cosmology. In 2020, the artist created two large site specific installations for the Portland International Airport titled The City and The Sky. “PDX is an iconic space in my mind. It was the big city to me when I was a kid, and the opportunity to come make artwork in collaboration with PDX was really inspiring,” said Hashimoto. “I am interested in how I can design artwork that is a pleasure to discover as you travel through it visually.” Jacob Hashimoto’s art practice bridges sculpture, painting, and installation through entrancing and complex installations that shift perceptions of light, space, and motion. In the recent print series on view, Hashimoto combines different printmaking mediums and techniques to enliven his visual experimentations. Repeating hexagonal structures, kaleidoscopic patterns, undulating organic forms and energetically entangled lines continuously activate the eye and invite the viewer into the artist’s fantastically imaginative floating worlds. Jacob Hashimoto was born in Greeley, Colorado in 1973 and grew up in Walla Walla, WA. He is a graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, and lives and works in Ossining, NY. Hashimoto has been featured in museum exhibitions at MOCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome and Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice, Italy; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Finland; Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Italy; Site Santa Fe, NM; and Science Museum of Oklahoma, OK. He has also had solo shows at Mary Boone Gallery in New York, NY; Rhona Hofman Gallery in Chicago, IL; Studio la Città, Verona, Italy; Galerie Forsblom in Helsinki, Finland; and Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA, among others. His work is in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Saastamoinen Foundation, Finland; Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Germany; The Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, WA; Capital One Collection, Tysons, VA; Fondation Carmignac, Paris, France; and numerous other public and private collections. Our current exhibitions on view through September include Dinh Q. Lê’s Monuments and Memorials, a new series of large-scale photo weavings that reflect on collective memory and architectural commemoration. Lê’s evocative photographic artworks combine interior and exterior pictures of Cambodian sites and pair the seemingly unresolvable, competing narratives of a country’s past and present. Interlaced vertical and horizontal strips of documentary photographs juxtapose grandiose ancient Angkor temples with sparse interior rooms of the Tuol Sleng Museum and other memorial locations marred by the violence inflicted by the Khmer Rouge regime (1975-1979). Warm, golden-hued pictorial tapestries belie the painful legacy of the empty torture rooms. The weaving process of the artist’s photographic constructions physically intertwine narratives to reiterate the dichotomous nature of cultural memory. Dinh Q. Lê creates conceptually based multimedia work that reflects on the complex history of Vietnam, issues of war, displaced populations and how non-western cultures are depicted in western media. Exhibiting internationally for 25 years, Lê’s solo exhibition, The Journey is Return, was on view at the San Jose Museum of Art (San Jose, CA) in 2018-19. The Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan) presented a retrospective of his work in 2015. Lê’s work was shown in the 2013 Carnegie International (Pittsburgh, PA), dOCUMENTA (13) (Kassel, Germany), Singapore Art Museum (Singapore), Kiev Biennial (Kiev, Ukraine), a Projects 93 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY) and a critically acclaimed one-person exhibition at the Asia Society in New York. Lê’s work is included in numerous permanent collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, Ford Foundation (New York, NY), Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA), Queensland Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane, Australia) and the Zabludowicz Collection (London, England). Also on view are Lonnie Holley’s atmospheric, dream-like painted works on paper that feature repeated, overlapping silhouettes and three-dimensional effects. Titled The Influence of Images, this new series of paintings were created during Holley’s artist-in-residency at the Elaine de Kooning House in East Hampton, NY in 2020. During his time there he made artworks layered with spray paint and acrylic, adding an immediacy to the imagery. Nested shapes appear to radiate and float in the cosmos amid a softly diffused palette of grays, pinks, blues, and yellows that emphasize their transformative, mystical quality. Lonnie Holley is a sculptor, painter and musician who has been making multimedia artworks since the 1980s. His improvisational studio process incorporates found objects including natural elements and repurposed materials to create figurative and abstract imagery that commemorate places, people, and events. In 2021, Holley has solo exhibitions currently on view at the South Etna Montauk Foundation (Montauk, NY) and the Parrish Art Museum (Water Mill, NY). His work is also included in the group exhibition From The Limitations of Now at the Philbrook Museum of Art, (Tulsa, OK). An 18-minute musical film about the artist’s relationship to freedom in America, I Snuck off the Slave Ship, co-directed with Cyrus Moussavi, was shown at Sundance in 2019. Holley’s work is included in numerous public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), American Folk Art Museum (New York, NY), Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, AL), High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA), Milwaukee Museum of Art (Milwaukee, WI), Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, TX), Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA), Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC), among others. In 2006 Holley received the Joan Mitchell Fellowship. The artist lives and works in Atlanta, GA. Upcoming Exhibitions October 7 - 30, 2021 Stephen Hayes Re:place New Paintings Gregg Renfrow Apprehension of Beauty New Paintings .