
Jacob Hashimoto
On the Threshold of Some Grand yet
Nonspecific Adventure, 2021
Paper, wood, acrylic, dacron and bamboo
137 x 117 x 21 cm / 54 x 46 x 8.25 in
JHAS_070
Jacob Hashimoto
The Sole Intention of the World, 2021
Paper, wood, acrylic, dacron and bamboo
81 x 63 x 21 cm / 32 x 25 x 8.25 in
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Jacob Hashimoto
Yet untitled, 2020
Paper, wood, acrylic and Dacron
168 x 154 x 22 cm / 66.14 x 60.63 x 8.66 inches
JHAS_051
Jacob Hashimoto
Yet untitled, 2020
Paper, wood, acrylic and Dacron
115 x 190 x 22 cm / 45.28 x 74.80 x 8.66 inches
JHAS_047
Jacob Hashimoto: Deep In The Gravity Well, 2018
Jacob Hashimoto exhibition 2011
Jacob Hashimoto exhibition 2016
Jacob Hashimoto exhibition 2013
Jacob Hashimoto exhibition 2013
Born in Greeley, Colorado 1973 | Lives and works in New York City, U.S.A and Verona, Italy
Jacob Hashimoto’s works combine Japanese handicraft tradition with Anglo-American minimalism. His artwork embodies his longtime fascination with the intersections of painting and sculpture, abstraction and landscape. Each work is comprised of hundreds of small bamboo and paper kite-like elements. These kite elements are strung together in chains, and layers of these chains are stretched taught between short dowels that project from wall-mounted brackets, creating a densely layered and fragmented tapestry of image or pattern.
The elements forming these tapestries are a solid color of paper, or a complex, collaged pattern of multicolored cut paper. While the individual components remain more or less abstract, overall, clusters of pattern, stripes, or waves of color are formed, giving the works a pictorial quality that suggests organic forms, vistas, scrolling video games, or even board games. Through this unique process Hashimoto's works convey an ephemeral wonder, entrancing the viewer with their continuously shifting illusion of light, space, motion, and sense of flight. Hashimoto’s working method is very open-ended, allowing him to sample art-historical references, icons of the every-day, and mismatched narratives within each composition.
Hashimoto graduated from the Department of Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996, and held his first solo exhibition that same year. Hashimoto has had numerous exhibitions around the world and his work can be found in several prestigious private collections.
Galerie Forsblom has been representing Jacob Hashimoto since 2011.