




Julian Hoeber: Relief From Pictures
Julian Hoeber: Relief From Pictures
January 15-March 5, 2022
Jessica Silverman is pleased to announce Julian Hoeber: Relief From Pictures, on view from January 15 to March 5, 2022 in the gallery’s second-floor space. This is the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery presenting eight new wallworks along with a new sculpture. These works echo a persistent motif in Hoeber’s practice—stepped gradients that complicate spatial perception and bridge conceptual and expressive modes of painting and sculpture.
The new wall-works, part of the artist’s Constructions series, were created in direct response to XCJS Door, 2021, which operates as a permanent installation and functioning door to Jessica Silverman’s second-floor gallery. This door was itself inspired by an earlier door Hoeber constructed for his first solo exhibition at Jessica Silverman in 2011, the most recent iteration being an approximate replica of the original. Hoeber traces these associations back and forth over the history of his relationship with the gallery and the different modes of his practice to produce a new body of work both experimental and responsive to its context. The relationship between the doors and the new, painted wood pieces in the Constructions series are exemplary of Hoeber’s practice, where a multitude of sources and references exist in excess of the contours of their appearance.
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SELECTED WORKS

Construction for AUB, 2021
Acrylic on plywood
42 x 27 x 5 inches / 106.7 x 68.6 x 12.7 cm

Red/Cyan Construction, 2021
Acrylic on plywood construction
Framed: 52 x 37 x 5 inches / 132.1 x 94 x 12.7 cm

Construction for H. H., 2021
Acrylic on plywood
42 x 27 x 5 inches / 106.7 x 68.6 x 12.7 cm
Construction for AUB, 2021
Acrylic on plywood
42 x 27 x 5 inches / 106.7 x 68.6 x 12.7 cm
Red/Cyan Construction, 2021
Acrylic on plywood construction
Framed: 52 x 37 x 5 inches / 132.1 x 94 x 12.7 cm
Construction for H. H., 2021
Acrylic on plywood
42 x 27 x 5 inches / 106.7 x 68.6 x 12.7 cm

Cyan/Red Construction, 2021
Acrylic on plywood construction
Framed: 52 x 37 x 5 inches / 132.1 x 94 x 12.7 cm

Construction for DBH, 2021
Plywood panels with plywood strainers
42 x 27 x 6 inches / 106.7 x 68.6 x 15.2 cm

Reclamation Construction, 2021
Plywood panels, acrylic on plywood construction with reclaimed old growth redwood artist’s frame plywood strainers and frame
Framed: 35 1/2 x 31 1/2 inches / 90.2 x 80 cm
Cyan/Red Construction, 2021
Acrylic on plywood construction
Framed: 52 x 37 x 5 inches / 132.1 x 94 x 12.7 cm
Construction for DBH, 2021
Plywood panels with plywood strainers
42 x 27 x 6 inches / 106.7 x 68.6 x 15.2 cm
Reclamation Construction, 2021
Plywood panels, acrylic on plywood construction with reclaimed old growth redwood artist’s frame plywood strainers and frame
Framed: 35 1/2 x 31 1/2 inches / 90.2 x 80 cm

Construction for a Long Lost Chair, 2021
Plywood panels with plywood strainers
42 x 27 x 6 inches / 106.7 x 68.6 x 15.2 cm

Construction for CS and FG, 2021
Acrylic on plywood
42 x 27 x 5 inches / 106.7 x 68.6 x 12.7 cm

XCJS Door, 2021
Cherry and aluminum
Door: 79 x 35 3/4 x 2 inches / 200.7 x 90.8 x 5.1 cm
Construction for a Long Lost Chair, 2021
Plywood panels with plywood strainers
42 x 27 x 6 inches / 106.7 x 68.6 x 15.2 cm
Construction for CS and FG, 2021
Acrylic on plywood
42 x 27 x 5 inches / 106.7 x 68.6 x 12.7 cm
XCJS Door, 2021
Cherry and aluminum
Door: 79 x 35 3/4 x 2 inches / 200.7 x 90.8 x 5.1 cm