LOUDER THAN WORDS

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LOS ANGELES – Hashimoto Contemporary is pleased to present Louder Than Words, a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist, Scott Albrecht. Exhibiting in the gallery’s third and newest location in Los Angeles, Louder Than Words will be Albrecht’s second solo exhibition with Hashimoto Contemporary, showing an entirely new body of work created in his signature graphic styles accompanied by an installation mural titled "Reverberations" painted in the main gallery space. 

Louder Than Words showcases a continued exploration of Albrecht's bold graphic works. Largely informed by typography, Scott's work often abstracts letterforms using a consistent graphic visual language, meant to draw the viewer in reconsidering the relationship between message and viewer. For Albrecht, he says "we interact with text passively all the time, and it can have an effect of conditioning us to consume instead of processing what is being said. These works are intentionally meant to entice the viewer to seek out the message while offering space to consider their own relationship to the idea." Many of these abstracted works are realized through approaches in woodworking and are the result of dozens, sometimes hundreds of individual pieces that are cut, laminated, sanded, painted, and re-assembled.

The work for this exhibition stems from his reflections on the last year and a half starting in March of 2020. Scott regularly looks at distilling the nuanced and complex situations of our cultural climate. In creating these works, Scott was looking to the experiences of isolation within the pandemic, the continued calls for social justice and equality, ideological factions, and ultimately how an individual receives these experiences. The title of the show, Louder Than Words, is what Scott describes as “an emotional undercurrent” to the events during this time. We often use this phrasing to communicate when we have a shared knowledge but the context extends beyond the words we can find. On this, Scott says "it's not to say these events are indescribable, but these were such significant milestones for many of us – part of these experiences was developing an emotional vocabulary to understand them."

Reflecting on these works he says, “All of the work for this exhibition is inspired by the events of the last year and a half. In my approach, I try to avoid using pronouns like 'I', 'me', 'we' etc. to allow the viewer to relate their own experience to the sentiment within the piece. In this show, I think that approach carries a different weight because the last year and a half is one of the few times we have all collectively experienced something so significant together, and because of that it allows the work to take on something of a Rorschach-like quality. Contextually these works are inspired by specific events and time, but we all experienced them in our own way, so a person’s relationship to these ideas can be both connected and unique."

The gallery will be open by appointment only. To ensure the health and safety of visitors and staff, please note that masks are legally required for entry. 

The exhibition will be on view Saturday, November 13th to Saturday, December 4th. For more information on this exhibition or to request an online collector's preview, please contact LA director, Dasha Matsuura, at la@hashimotocontemporary.com

ABOUT SCOTT ALBRECHT

Scott Albrecht was born in 1983 in New Brunswick, NJ, and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. In 2003, he received a degree in graphic design from the Art Institute of Philadelphia. Perhaps best known for his wood relief pieces, Scott also works in a variety of other mediums including steel, collage, pen & ink, and murals. His work has been published and exhibited both domestically and internationally. Scott has collaborated with a number of clients including Google, Spotify, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Rag & Bone, Vans, PayPal, and Ballantine’s.

ABOUT HASHIMOTO CONTEMPORARY

Hashimoto Contemporary was founded in 2013 by gallerist and curator Ken Harman Hashimoto. You can find us in New York City's Lower East Side and San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhoods, both spaces feature new exhibitions monthly. 

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