Katie Kimmel and Lorien Stern’s “Very Rare” at Hashimoto NYC.
Currently on view via their website at Hashimoto Contemporary in New York City is artist Katie Kimmel and Lorien Stern’s exhibition, “Very Rare.”
For “Very Rare,” the artists created a collection of whimsical ceramic artifacts, oddities and trophies for unique situations, the imagined content found in an older, wealthy person’s curiosity room.
Drawing on their mutually playful sense of humor, Kimmel and Stern contemplated what is considered ‘very rare’, and how we come to define and categorize something as such. For Lorien Stern, this theme was utilized to place a spotlight on exotic, extinct and near extinct animals, as well as rare versions of the artists well known ceramic shark heads, finished in gold luster. One notable work is a 2+ foot tall albino Komodo dragon, standing upright, tail wrapped around itself and tongue sticking out, while cheekily displaying its long, light blue perfectly manicured finger and toe nails.
Alternatively, Katie Kimmel created a series of ceramic awards and trophies, “haunted fruit”, as well as collectible items such as kitschy memorabilia reminiscent of card store trinkets and stamps. Patron Saint of Friday’s, a large ceramic bust, pays tribute to the working class chain-restaurant waitress, suspenders full of “flair”, proudly carrying a grinning cheeseburger and fries to her next table.
The exhibition is on view until April 25th, 2020.
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