Miles McEnery Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by New York-based artist Jacob Hashimoto. The artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery is on view 30 October through 20 December 2025 at 515 West 22nd Street. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated publication featuring an essay by David Pagel.

Jacob Hashimoto’s layered, kite-like structures blur the lines between sculpture and painting. In reframing the brushstroke as a modular unit, Hashimoto splinters painting’s most fundamental conventions (stroke, mark, surface) into discrete, discernible forms. Each screen-printed, paper disc oscillates between ornament and gesture, object and mark, generating fields that feel both painterly and architectural.

Like cells in a living organism, these units retain their individuality (their own material, presence, and geometry) while contributing and communicating towards a larger image. The result is a fractal tension in which the viewer must perpetually negotiate; not only between the part and the whole, but between painting’s historical language and an expanded, contemporary definition.

As David Pagel notes, “to stand before any one of Hashimoto’s wall-mounted works and scan its multipart, multilayered surfaces is not to be lured into a complex web of myriad nooks-and-crannies so much as it is to be catapulted on a vertiginous, gravity-defying ride through a world of vivid, super-saturated colors and crisp, laser-sharp shapes, both of which are repeated in such a way that they allow you to see some patterns, defined, as patterns are, by repetition and regularity; to see what you imagine might be parts of other, larger patterns, infinite or otherwise; and to see something that might very well be chaos itself—a randomized mishmash of renegade shapes and colors, none settling into anything regular or repeated.”