PROJECTION 008 | Lauren Anaïs Hussey : Retinal Loop

CHART is pleased to present our eighth PROJECTION exhibition, Retinal Loop, a solo presentation of new paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Lauren Anaïs Hussey. Featuring seven works on canvas, the exhibition, Hussey’s debut solo show, will open with a reception on Friday, March 15, from 6–8pm, and remain on view through April 27, 2024.

Hussey makes works that interrogate the thresholds of intelligibility in image and text through the language of abstraction. In her latest body of paintings, she layers abstracted images of shiny surfaces casually captured from everyday life with enlarged versions of process-oriented calligraphic drawings.

Hussey is interested in moments of perceptual doubt, and the various paradoxes wrapped up in them; a reflective surface such as the inside of an elevator obscures what it is reflecting, and a signature on a document is the most binding aspect of it yet usually cannot be read. Through a use of both metallic pigments and trompe l’oeil rendering of metal surfaces and script, her paintings optically hum, not quite disorienting the viewer, but at all moments causing them to wonder what they are looking at, and what its relationship is to the tangible world. Her work attempts to slow images down, aiming to, as she states, “keep the looker looking.”