Jacob Hashimoto, Artist
The Blurred Mystical Affirmation of the Universe
2017
Woodblock prints

New York based artist Jacob Hashimoto uses sculpture, painting, and installation, to create complex worlds from a range of modular components: bamboo-and-paper kites, model boats, even Astroturf covered blocks. His accretive, layered compositions reference video games, virtual environments, and cosmology, while also remaining deeply rooted in art-historical traditions notably, landscape-based abstraction, modernism, and handcraft. Most recently, he collaborated with an astrophysicist to create paintings that depict alternate representations of outer space that resulted in this series of prints.