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Finish Fetish

18 August1 October, 2023

Collaborations by Tania and Thomas Asbæk is pleased to present Finish Fetish - a group exhibition curated by Scroll.

Bringing together seventeen artists from around the world, Finish Fetish will present themes of consumption, memory, materiality, and psyche reflected through surreal dreamscapes and abstracted geometries. Reflecting contemporary consumerist desires and anxieties, the works blur boundaries between the tactile and intangible, human and object, mechanical and subconscious. Inanimate objects become sexually suggestive, as depicted in the works of Edward Givis and Alexander Owen. Conventions of painting and sculpture are blurred in the wall-hanging organic-mechanic forms by Ava Samii and Michael Rey. Rapacious bodies blend together in the chaotic visions of David Rappeneau and Christian Santiago.

The exhibition’s title comes from the 1960s Southern California artistic movement, bringing together pop, minimalism, and light and space, creating a distinctive “LA Look” throughout the decade. Artists paired sensuous colors against pristine, slick surfaces through innovative fabrication techniques using materials like resin and plastic, bringing the industrial to the fine art space. Whereas the artists of this period focused on more minimalist sculptural works, Finish Fetish aims to showcase artists creating innovative textures and finishes primarily through painting and drawing.

Finish Fetish features works by Aaron Elvis Jupin, Alexander Owen, Ava Samii, Christian Santiago, David Rappeneau, Edward Givis, Francesco Deiana, Jack Kenna, Jairo Alfonso, Ji Zou, Jordan Homstad, Keegan Monaghan, Lindsay Merrill, Lisa Vlaemminck, Michael Rey, Namio Harukawa, and Vanessa Gully-Santiago.

Untitled (Woman)
Edward Givis
Untitled (Woman) (2023)
graphite on paper
sheet dimensions: 30 x 22 3/8 in. (76.2 x 56.8 cm.)
framed dimensions: 32 3/4 x 25 1/4 in. (83.2 x 64.1 cm.)
Untitled (Shovel)
Edward Givis
Untitled (Shovel) (2023)
graphite on paper
sheet dimensions: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm.)
framed dimensions: 32 3/4 x 25 1/4 in. (83.2 x 64.1 cm.)
Keegan Monaghan
Keegan Monaghan
Keegan Monaghan (2018)
oil on canvas
48 x 55 in. (121.9 x 139.7 cm.)
Interior-01
Jordan Homstad
Interior-01 (2023)
oil, enamel, acrylic and flashe on canvas
18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61 cm.)
All Screwed Up
Alexander Owen
All Screwed Up (2021)
acrylic on canvas
35 3/8 x 25 5/8 in. (90 x 65 cm.)
Child
Lindsay Merrill
Child (2023)
oil on linen
24 x 16 in. (61 x 40.6 cm.)
Untitled
David Rappeneau
Untitled (2018)
acrylic, ballpoint pen, pencil and charcoal pencil on paper
sheet: 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 in. (30 x 21 cm.) frame: 17 1/4 x 14 in. (43.8 x 35.6 cm.)
Sword+Dragon
Christian Santiago
Sword+Dragon (2023)
diptych - pen, ink, brush-tip marker and colored pencil on watercolor paper mounted on canvas over board
overall: 20 x 32 in. (51 x 81 cm.)each: 20 x 16 in. (51 x 41 cm.)
Untitled
Francesco Deiana
Untitled (2020)
graphite on paper
24 3/8 x 20 1/8 in. (62 x 51 cm.)
Tom Brown
Francesco Deiana
Tom Brown (2023)
acrylic, one-shot enamel and latex paint on raw canvas
56 x 38 in. (142.2 x 96.5 cm.)
KAHUDDO3
Michael Rey
KAHUDDO3 (2023)
oil on wood
32 x 46 in. (81.3 x 116.8 cm.)
Nest
Jack Kenna
Nest (2023)
oil on canvas
25 x 18 in. (63.5 x 45.7 cm.)
Make Me Nervous (Can't Kick This Feeling)
Aaron Elvis Jupin
Make Me Nervous (Can't Kick This Feeling) (2021)
acrylic and vinyl on canvas
16 1/2 x 13 in. (41.9 x 34.9 cm.)
Untitled
Namio Harukawa
Untitled
graphite on paper
sheet: 10 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. (27.3 x 19.7 cm.)frame: 17 1/2 x 14 1/4 in. (44.5 x 36.2 cm.)
Goedendag
Lisa Vlaemminck
Goedendag (2023)
oil and acrylic on canvas
27 1/2 x 37 3/8 in. (70 x 95 cm.)
Entrance
Ava Samii
Entrance (2023)
glazed stoneware and epoxy resin
19 3/4 x 19 1/4 x 3 3/8 in. (50 x 49 x 8.5 cm.)
Strangle
Vanessa Gully-Santiago
Strangle (2023)
acrylic on canvas
30 x 36 in. (76.2 x 91.4 cm.)
A Great Connection
Vanessa Gully-Santiago
A Great Connection (2023)
acrylic on canvas
14 x 17 in. (35.6 x 43.2 cm.)
I'll Take You With Me
Ji Zou
I'll Take You With Me (2023)
acrylic and oil on canvas
36 x 48 in. (91.4 x 121.9 cm.)
Caribe transistorizado VI
Jairo Alfonso
Caribe transistorizado VI (2023)
oil on canvas
30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm.)
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