Chris Sharp Gallery

About the Gallery
Chris Sharp Gallery opened in Los Angeles in January 2021. Founded by writer, curator and co-founder of Lulu, Mexico City, Chris Sharp, the gallery is focused on a mixture of emerging and mid-career positions which are based in Los Angeles and abroad. The intention of the program is to present fully integrated practices in which politics are as indivisible from materials as they are from form, or which, to put it more simply, think plastically.

About the Presentation
Chris Sharp Gallery will present work by Adam Higgins in a solo presentation, marking Adam Higgins’ New York debut.

Building on his salad series, Higgins’ new paintings depict salads dressed with raw proteins (shrimp, oysters, octopus tentacles) on top of photographs (a street on the outskirts of Paris, a yacht-populated seascape, the artist’s truck) to dazzling and perplexing effect. The all over composition of the works evokes the potential onanism of mid-century abstraction, while the juxtapositions of imagery would seem to reference photorealism, but the subject matter of the work is elsewhere: the history of painting, spatial perception, i.e., the coexistence of conflicting picture planes, and a certain deadpan humor so deadpan it almost becomes dead-serious. These works could be seen as a response to living in such humorless times, hence their relative ambiguity, but their precision and weirdness leave little doubt about the uniqueness of Higgins’ position in contemporary painting.