Mark Leibert Hotel Mirror
Mark Leibert, Nine Eyes, 2021, oil on paper, 67 x 51 in.
Exhibition Dates: June 11 - August 7, 2021
Hotel Mirror Sandler Hudson Gallery is pleased to announce the latest body of work from artist Mark Leibert entitled Hotel Mirror. Leibert’s Hotel Mirror is an homage to the power of chance, with its cycle of happy moments and broken souls, and a moving glimpse at the fleeting characters surfing the lacunae of an unprecedented era of flux and global loss. Many of the 20-plus paintings and works on paper in the show exist in a continuum between figuration and abstraction, form and void. They scramble our notions of the objective and subjective, and the line between hard science and the soft machine of individual perception. In the quasi-aftermath of a global pandemic we come face to face with the unexpected — and, like hotels and the mirrors they contain, we are asked to reflect upon questions of transiency, perspective, reflection, and isolation. A thinker and maker, Leibert employs paint, graphic design, artificial intelligence, and algorithms into his creative process as a pigment-and-pixel provocateur. A good majority of the paintings and drawings in Hotel Mirror share the same aspect ratio and suggest stills from a hypothetical animation or film. The works also highlight Leibert’s ongoing commitment to engage with material processes and pigments in a way that honors traditional forms of art-making at the same time as it engages with the ephemeral and evolving aspects of digital forms and technologies. These works form a unique bridge between traditions of painting and drawing and emerging forms of visualization and categorization that engage with technology. The works are inspired and driven by the imagination, photographic archives, machine learning drawings from a convolutional neural network, and what Leibert calls a “casino of chancemaking”--an algorithmic game, rooted in the history of chance-controlled composition in art. Leibert’s transient figures come and go, entwined and refracted through prisms of personal history, filmic and fictional depictions of Hawaii, and ‘70s surfer magazines. Some of them linger with thousand-mile stares, while others appear to be caught mid-performance, in a blur of movement. All of them ask a fundamental--and sometimes harrowing--question in a moment unmoored from global and personal certainties: What does the mirror see?
Untitled 1, 2020, oil on canvas, 24 x 18 in.
$2,400
Untitled 2, 2020, oil on canvas, 24 x 18 in.
$2,400
Untitled 3 , 2020, oil on canvas, 66 x 48.50 in.
$6,500
Untitled 4, 2020, oil on canvas, 8 x 6 in.
$500
Unttled 5, 2020, Mixed media on paper, 43 x 28.50 in.
$5,000
Untitled 6, 2020, oil on canvas, 22 x 18 in.
$2,400
Nine Eyes, 2021, oil on paper, 67 x 51 in.
$8,500
Untitled 7, 2020, oil on board, 20 x 15 in.
$1.800
Untitled (Diptych), 2020, oil on board, 20 x 30 in.
$3,500
Untitled 8, 2020,oil on canvas, 60 x 45 in.
$6,000
Untitled 9, 2020, oil on board, 24 x 18 in.
$2,400
Untitled 10, 2020, oil on canvas, 66 x 50 in.
$6,500
Untitled 11, 2020, oil on paper, 14 x 11 in.
$1,000
Untitled 12, 2020, watercolor on paper, 3.50 x 2.50 in.
$100
Untitled 13, 2020, oil on canvas, 12 x 9 in.
$950
Untitled (Blue), 2020, oil on paper, 16 x 12 in.
$1,200
Untitled (Surfboard), 2020, oil on paper, 93.50 x 36 in.
$4,000
Untitled 14, 2020, watercolor on paper, 5.25 x 4 in.
$200
Untitled 15, 2020, oil on canvas, 16 x 12 in.
$1,600
Untitled 16, 2020, oil on paper, 13 x 10 in.
$700
Untitled 17, 2020, oil on paper, 5.25 x 4 in.
$200
Untitled (Purple), 2020, oil on paper, 20 x 15 in.
$1,400
Untitled (Aura), 2020, oil on paper, 16 x 12 in.
$1,200
Untitled 18, 2020, watercolor on paper, 12 x 9 in.
$700
Untitled 19, 2020, mixed media on paper, 12 x 9 in.
$700
Untitled 20, 2020, mixed media on canvas, 8 x 6 in.
$500
Untitled ( Haze), 2020, oil on canvas, 24 x 18 in.
$2,400
Untitled (Movement), 2020, oil on canvas, 24 x 18 in.
$2,400
Untitled 21, 2020, oil on canvas 16.50 x 12 in.
$1,600
Untitled 22, 2020, watercolor on paper, 5.25 x 4 in.
$200
Untitled 23, 2020, watercolor on paper, 5.25 x 4 in.
$200
Untitled 24, 2020, oil on paper, 9 x 12 in.
$700
Untitled 25, 2020, watercolor on paper, 5.25 x 4 in.
$200
Untitled 26, 2020, oil on paper, 16 x 12 in.
$1,200
Untitled 27, 2020, oil on paper, 12 x 9 in.
$700
Untitled 28, 2020, mixed media on canvas, 8 x 6 in.
$500
Untitled 29, 2020, watercolor on paper, 12 x 9 in.
$700
Untitled 30, 2020, mixed media on paper, 12 x 9 in.
$700
Untitled 31, 2020, mixed media on paper, 12 x 9 in.
$700
Untitled 32, 2020, mixed media on paper, 30 x 22.50 in.
$2,200
Please contact the gallery if you are interested in purchasing or if you have any questions!
gallery@sandlerhudson.com