Hannah Epstein: Kill Your Captors
Los Angeles
Hannah Epstein: Kill Your CaptorsSteve Turner presents Kill Your Captors, a solo exhibition by Hannah Epstein which features new hooked rugs, most of which she created after moving into an 1886 church in Mahone Bay, a small town one hour from Halifax.
Artworks
Hannah Epstein 2020, 2020
Acrylic, polyester, cotton, burlap and vintage hooked rugs
49 x 30 inches (124.5 x 76.2 cm)
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Neon God, 2020
Acrylic, cotton, burlap and spray paint
30 x 19 inches (76.2 x 48.3 cm)
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Triple Trick, 2020
Wool, acrylic, polyester, cotton and burlap
38 1/2 x 27 inches (97.8 x 68.6 cm)
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Ego & Intuition, 2020
Wool, acrylic, cotton and burlap
29 x 39 inches (73.7 x 99.1 cm)
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Lil Bo Peep’s Lost Sheep, 2020
Wool, acrylic, polyester, cotton and burlap
17 x 40 inches (43.2 x 101.6 cm)
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Sneak, 2020
Wool, acrylic, polyester, cotton and burlap
37 x 35 inches (94 x 88.9 cm)
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Death Rites (Eyes on the Prize), 2020
Wool, acrylic, cotton and burlap
33 x 17 inches (83.8 x 43.2 cm)
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The Kiss, 2020
Wool, acrylic, polyester, cotton and burlap
23 x 28 inches (58.4 x 71.1 cm)
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SpaceX/Mass Murder/fuct, 2020
Wool, acrylic, cotton and burlap
51 x 56 inches (129.5 x 142.2 cm)
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Tiger Tongue, 2020
Acrylic, polyester, cotton and burlap
36 x 32 inches (91.4 x 81.3 cm)
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Jeffrey, 2020
Wool, acrylic, cotton and burlap
34 x 26 inches (86.4 x 66 cm)
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Jabba, 2020
Wool, acrylic, polyester, cotton and burlap
19 x 35 1/2 inches (48.3 x 90.2 cm)
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Unbridled, 2020
Wool, acrylic, polyester, cotton and burlap
108 x 113 inches (274.3 x 287 cm)
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Bat Boy II, 2020
Wool, acrylic, polyester, cotton and burlap
48 x 38 inches (121.9 x 96.5 cm)
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There Is Nothing To See (Behind the CCP), 2020
Wool, acrylic, cotton and burlap
45 x 54 inches (114.3 x 137.2 cm)
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At The Gates of 2020, 2020
Wool, acrylic, polyester, cotton and burlap
51 x 30 inches (129.5 x 76.2 cm)
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James Franco, Cumedy Genius, 2020
Wool, acrylic, polyester, cotton and burlap
20 x 33 inches (50.8 x 83.8 cm)
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My “I’m With Cancelled” Shirt, 2020
Acrylic, cotton, burlap and shirt
23 x 24 inches (58.4 x 61 cm)
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The hysteria of 2020 and the meme culture that ensued are depicted in the works on one wall while the wall opposite it displays a group of feline monsters bearing sharp teeth that are eagerly looking on. The meme works relate to Cancel Culture, Elon Musk and Grimes, Xi Jinpeng’s China, sacred cows and hyperstimulation. On the center wall is a single large work, the artist’s largest to date, one that shows a torch-bearing nude woman astride a flying monster that is approaching another monster as though a battle is about to ensue. An erupting volcano is below and a colorful toothy sun is in the distance. The woman is ready and able. Look out below.
Hannah Epstein earned a BA from Memorial University of Newfoundland (2009) and an MFA from Carnegie Mellon (2017). She has had solo exhibitions at HUB Gallery, Pennsylvania State University (2019); Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2019) and Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2018, 2019 & 2020) as well as group exhibitions at Long Beach Museum of Art (2019); San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles (2019) and The Rooms, St. Johns, Newfoundland (2019). This is Epstein’s fourth solo exhibition at Steve Turner.
Courtesy of the artist and Steve Turner, Los Angeles
