Hollis Taggart is pleased to present Interplay, a group exhibition featuring new and recent paintings by five contemporary female artists: Justine Hill, Zahra Nazari, Nora Maité Nieves, Anna Pietrzak, and Mia Weiner. On view from November 30 to January 6, the exhibition features selections of their paintings, which showcase a breadth of different mediums and styles of expression. An opening reception will take place on November 30 from 5pm to 8pm on the second floor of 521 West 26^th Street.

The artists in this exhibition take up different processes and mediums—such as handwoven cotton, 24k gold leaf, acrylic on mylar, sculptural painting, and modelling paste—to create works that luxuriate in their materiality. Though experimenting with various styles that range from abstraction to figuration, as well as architectural abstraction that shuttles somewhere in between those two poles, the artists featured in the exhibition are united by their palpable sense of delight in the very process of art making. As such, these works are marked by an inexhaustible wonder in form, and its infinite affordances and limitations.

Justine Hill's exuberant sculptural painting-constructions imagine the possibilities of shapes that the traditional canvas can permutate into, incorporating 'cut-out' negative spaces of the canvas as a vital part of the work. The works of Zahra Nazari, abstracted from architectural references, conjure striking visions of places untethered from specificities. Incorporating a wide variety of mediums, Nora Maité Nieves blows up architectural details to create enchanting abstractions that are reminiscent of the primordial forms found in the transcendental artworks of Agnes Pelton or Raymond Jonson. Anna Pietrzak enlists gold leaf in her works to glorious effects: her works simultaneously evoke private, otherworldly visions and the present grace of the here-and-now. Mia Weiner's woven offerings depicting intimate scenes acquire an eerie beauty and a haunting sensibility, probing what it means to memorialise relationships and care through colour, material, and form.

'We are thrilled to bring together the work of these five extraordinary, talented artists,' remarked Paul Efstathiou, Director of Contemporary at Hollis Taggart. 'Their works will offer a glimpse into how a divergent, unexpected group of works can lean into their differences to produce a surprising and thoughtful dialogue, the works ricocheting off one another and anchored together by their unifying commitment to the process of artmaking.'

Press release courtesy Hollis Taggart.