Hold On Tightly / Let Go Lightly

Workplace Gallery is excited to present Joel Kyack’s first solo exhibition at the Mayfair gallery. Following his successful debut UK exhibition at Workplace Gateshead in the North of England, Hold On Tightly / Let Go Lightly will be the LA based artist’s first solo exhibition in London.

Through a series of works made in a range of different media including painting, sculpture, video and photography, the exhibition reflects upon a the relationship between existence and the human condition collapsed into a non-linear narrative, where flowing connections over vast periods of time can be easily imagined. A large scale abstract mobile constructed of primordial materials: sticks, stones and twine scavenged by the artist on his travels, takes over the space of the first gallery. Consisting predominantly of air, punctured by the linear and lumpen wood and stone forms that articulate the volume of the piece, it morphs and changes in relation to the viewer. Behind this, resting on two skulls in the corner of the room is a giant sketch-like painting rendered in the comic book style of “non-repro blue” of a primitive man in a lush forest, laughing gleefully and as he relieves himself into a small stream.