KOKI ARTS presents the Hayama Artist Residency Exhibition 2024, featuring recent works by Alicia Adamerovich, Kadar Brock, and Christopher Daharsh. The three artists were selected from over 1,000 residency applicants from around the world. The exhibition is curated by Dexter Wimberly, Founder and Director of the Hayama Artist Residency.

Alicia Adamerovich draws and paints abstract, shadow-filled scenes whose undulating shapes are informed by Surrealism as well as by the symbolist compositions of Hilma af Klint. Her paintings respond to the natural world and that of science fiction; they are populated by twisting biomorphic forms that cast ink-black shadows or radiate with bright white internal light. Adamerovich first makes studies with pastel on paper before translating these compositions to canvas. She builds texture onto her stretched canvas supports with multiple layers of pumice, gels, sand, and paint to achieve uncanny effects of surface, depth, and atmosphere.

Christopher Daharsh’s practice functions as a visual filter to his pedestrian and nomadic experiences in natural and built environments. He is searching for a level of empathy with his environment through crowdsourced mark making and the slow hand of geological time. Painterly and sculptural composites come into being in the studio tethered to the scaffolding of various forms of pictorial and assemblage traditions, using observations and objects from his excursions in the field, creating a larger, mutated whole.

Kadar Brock’s process consists of un-stretching and scraping down his representational paintings. He coats the ground in a primer-sealer, then sands the surface down to create textured and patinated surfaces that hint in fragments to the original painting. Brock then paints another image and the process is repeated. Brock’s own life has moved on from the experiences of the past, but as his works highlight, the past is a key to make better sense of the present. The continuous process of re-imaging and erasing one’s own experiences is something we do every day, our view of the world is shaped by the fragments of memory and lived experience in our minds. For Brock this process manifests in works that stand still with time, all the info and none at all, together in one beautifully complex surface of record.