Peppi Bottrop, Mathew Cerletty, Benjamin Langford, Stuart Middleton, Robert Rauschenberg, Amanda Ross Ho, Analia Saban, Henrik Munk Soerensen, and others
Almost Like
March 13-April 24
Almost Like gathers works that hover in the charged space between thing and depiction, presenting objects and images that feel uncannily familiar while never fully resolving into what they resemble. Across the exhibition, everyday motifs and materials are pushed through processes of translation such as printing, weaving, rubbing, and precision rendering, resulting in works that function less as copies than as proxies.
These stand-ins carry traces of touch, labor, and mediation, drawing attention to surface and structure as subjects in themselves. The exhibition ultimately stages a choreography of nearness, asking viewers to consider how meaning shifts when the “real” is rerouted through pattern, archive, and technique, and how recognition gives way to doubt in that subtle interval.
Caption:
Deep Purple Pansy
by Benjamin Langford
archival inkjet print on canvas, acrylic, colored pencil, waxed thread
60” x 55”
2025
Image courtesy of the Artist and OCHI
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119 Lewis Street | Ketchum
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