The Hole is proud to present at UNTITLED Miami will present a group show of digitally-minded paintings from artists working in a “post-analog” mode. “Post-Analog” is meant to suggest that the paintings in this show were not even conceivable before digital imaging changed the structure of our images. Sure, we erased things, but not the way the “erase tool” erases. Items at shallow depth leave shadows but not the standardized way a drop-shadow filter does. Focus and resolution exist in emulsion photography but the way that paint is applied in this show has more in common with low-res JPEGS and pixels-per-inch. The long and complex shift in culture from analog media to digital media is the most significant transformation of our generation, and it has long-reaching and manifold effects that continue to permeate all modes of visual expression. In painting the effects have been slow to reverberate. “Inkjet on canvas” was the center of these discussions for many years; however, after Roberta Smith deemed the Wade Guyton show at the Whitney acceptable, everyone could chill out about whether paintings were composed in a computer and printed out or whether an actual paintbrush was wielded. But the more interesting shift in painting has nothing to do with the media used but instead the forms, composition and content in painting. Digital tools have affected our imaginary, the logic of Photoshop or pixelation shapes a painter’s approach to color, form, depth, shade, tone, volume; all the parameters that guide the application of paint to canvas. When these artists paint a circle, it’s the specific kind of sloppy shape a hand and mouse draws, not the shape a hand holding a brush would make.

Matthew Stone
Johnny Abrahams
Michael Dotson
Brian Willmont
Eric Yahnker
Ryan Michael Ford
Zane Lewis
Adam Henry
Ben Jones
Ry David Bradley

HOURS
December 2nd – 6th, 2015

LOCATION
Ocean Drive and 12th Street
Booth: C 19

For more information about the artist and to preview works in exhibition please email raymond@theholenyc.com