NEVER ODD OR EVEN

KYOKO HAMAGUCHI - ELIZABETH HARNEY - SAM SHERMAN

MARCH 5 - MAY 8, 2022
OPENING RECEPTION MARCH 5 - 4-8 PM

POMPEI is pleased to present Never Odd or Even, a group show featuring Kyoko Hamaguchi, Elizabeth Harney, and Sam Sherman that interrogates the way we perceive reality and notions of self through patterns and poles.

Never Odd or Even is a commonly known palindrome - words, phrases, or strings of letters repeated that read the same way forward and backward - reflecting itself seemingly without end. In this show, the artists use repetitive imagery to explore our attraction to palindromes as linguistic representations of infinity through print-making, painting, sculpture, and video.

Kyoko Hamaguchi
Hamaguchi’s practice includes photography, sculpture, and installation. For this show, she experiments with the transformative process of crystallization to create new objects imbued with the memory and history of their original use. Memory and history are often subject to revision and obfuscation to create a desired narrative, and these crystallized forms act as a stand-in for time while simultaneously storing and distorting information.

kyokohamaguchi.com / @kyoko.hmg

Elizabeth Harney
Harney utilizes collography, which draws from intaglio and relief printing techniques, to create repeated iconic imagery representing the paradox of a polarized self within an intangible infinity. Through the mirrored motifs of the idealized fetus and the servile horse, she examines the illusion of immortality felt through domestication and safety and questions how this illusion impacts our patterns of behavior.

ElizabethHarneyArt.com / @horse_he_whores

Sam Sherman
Sherman’s work examines the effects of media on the American public. Through painting and video, he explores how the repetition of broadcasted information forms echo chambers that reject differing opinions and even facts that do not fit into their self-contained structures. Vanilla uses waves of a repeated FoxNews logo to create an autostereogram, an optical illusion that when viewed in a certain way reveals the word “Vanilla,” reflecting the banality, emptiness, and whiteness of the network’s target audience. Loading… collects a stream of outdated stock data from an MSNBC news ticker, preserving an accumulation of information that ascribes value but no longer has any.

samshermanart.com / @sesherman

POMPEI is a creative project space and gallery founded by J Grabowski and Jacqueline Pompei. POMPEI is open to the public Saturdays and Sundays, 2-6 pm, and Monday-Friday, by appointment.

pompeinewyork.com / @pompei_ny