Avoid glancing blows
Katherine Hubbard
Jan10–Feb232020
Avoid glancing blows, a new body of photographic work by Katherine Hubbard, is the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Working with a range of photographic techniques and image genres, Hubbard circulates questions of utility, leverage and the psychic resonance of a basement built out of the bedrock. Included in the exhibition are two large-scale silver gelatin photogram prints created with a camera-less process in a traditional black and white darkroom. The photogram images a well-worn polyethylene-coated woven tarp—a vernacular form, not considered for it’s surface, becomes a backdrop within the exhibition. Photographs taken underwater of legs shifting weight, side to side, as they tread water in efforts to maintain the buoyancy of the body are positioned on the floor and supported by armature of a double frame—small still life images of crow bars mirror this frame structure on the wall.
Selected Works

Katherine Hubbard
from below, above,
2019

Katherine Hubbard
23 degrees above freezing,
2019

Katherine Hubbard
Xingu River ray,
2019

Katherine Hubbard
still life spoon,
2019

Katherine Hubbard
topping out,
2019

Katherine Hubbard
untitled (tread),
2019

Katherine Hubbard
still life shoulder,
2019

Katherine Hubbard
rip stop weave,
2019

Katherine Hubbard
rip stop weave with seam,
2019

Katherine Hubbard
untitled (claw),
2019

Katherine Hubbard
still life lean,
2019

Katherine Hubbard
sculling,
2019

Katherine Hubbard
break,
2019

Katherine Hubbard
rotary salt left,
2019

Katherine Hubbard
rotary salt right,
2019

Katherine Hubbard
blue stone bed rock,
2019

Katherine Hubbard
Smithson adjacent “XO”,
2019

Katherine Hubbard
still life resuscitation,
2019

Katherine Hubbard
clay little mortar,
2019

Katherine Hubbard
rubblization,
2019