Objective Reality

Exhibit Overview

Objective Reality

SPRING/BREAK Art Show • Booth 1020

625 Madison Avenue, New York City, NY 10022

Sep 07 - Press & Collector Preview, 11am-5pm

Sep 07 - VIP Opening Night, 5pm-8pm

Sep 08-12 - Regular Show Days, 11am-8pm

Curator Statement

Objective Reality explores hyperrealism, nature's imprint, and noble beauty. As a group, Ben Ashton, Jade Doskow, Steve Hash, Alexandria Hilfiger, and Brandon Lomax remind us of the world we inhabit, the people who occupy it, and express reminders of human evolution and connection.

Curated by Kipton Cronkite

Ben Ashton

About The Artist

Born in 1983 – to an artist father and a mother who led the creative department of a secondary school – Ben Ashton didn’t set out intending to become an artist himself. He dabbled in music and acting, but saw greater potential for longevity in art, along with infinite possibilities to improve and expand. He went on to study Fine Art at Newcastle University before completing his MA at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, in 2008.  His work has been celebrated in such high-profile projects as the cover art for Rag’n’Bone Man’s record-breaking debut album, Human, as well as AlunaGeorge’s debut Body Music. Both were joint projects with his wife and creative partner, the photographer Fiona Garden. Other notable collaborators include fellow artist and designer Rachel Freires, and the Norwegian artist Damselfrau. Ashton has come to view his work as a personal history. “Because I've painted myself and the people around me for so long… if you were to do a retrospective after I died then you'd be able to see my entire life in painting,” he says. “You'd see someone grow old.” Oil paint is incredibly resilient, he adds. “I think that's what I really like about it. Portraiture has a strange lineage; it's been a part of humanity's means of expression for centuries.” This is the legacy – a wonderfully odd and unique one – that he will leave behind.

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Jade Doskow

About The Artist

New York-based architectural and landscape photographer Jade Doskow is known for her rigorously composed and eerily poetic images that examine the intersection of people, architecture, nature, and time. Doskow is best-known for her work Freshkills, Lost Utopias and Red Hook. Doskow holds a BA from New York University’s Gallatin School and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts. She is the subject of the 2021 documentary 'Jade Doskow: Photographer of Lost Utopias'; the film has screened internationally at film festivals and at cultural institutions such as the Asheville Art Museum and the International Center of Photography. Doskow was one of 50 women featured in the award-winning 2018 publication 50 Contemporary Women Artists from 1960 to the Present. Doskow’s photographs have been featured in The New York Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, Urban Omnibus/ Architectural League of New York, Aperture, Photograph, Architect, Wired, Musée Mag, Smithsonian, Slate, and Newsweek Japan. Doskow is on the faculty of the International Center of Photography and the City University of New York/ College of Staten Island. Doskow is the Photographer-in-Residence of Freshkills Park, New York City.

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Steve Hash

About The Artist

Steve Hash is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in the fields of sculpture and installation art. Born in 1982 into an end-times Christian commune led by his grandfather, Hash grew up off-the-grid in the forests of southern Mississippi largely separated from the outside world. His works explore commonalities within the human experience through recontextualization and disorientation, as well as themes of personal connection, conflict and isolation. His work has been exhibited in institutions and galleries such as the Institute of Contemporary Art, LA Louver, Ann Norton Sculpture Garden (artist-in-residence), The Bunker Artspace, and featured in publications such as Artforum (critics pick) and Forbes (artist spotlight).

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Alexandria Hilfiger

About The Artist

Alexandria Hilfiger is a painter whose uniquely expressive work carries within it a wide range of human emotion. Her work is intuitive and free, inspired by nature and the raw human experience. The idea of creating a healing experience for herself as well as the viewer informs many of her pieces during her process. 

Hilfiger believes that there is more beauty in the imperfections of nature and human existence; therefore allowing others to accept the undulating nature of our human experience on earth. Allowing emotion to dictate her work, her background in fashion influences her use of color and texture choices greatly. 

Alexandria has been showing work since 2004. Exhibiting in New York City, having a solo show at Soho House NYC, Group show at the Chelsea Art Museum, Novare, Whiplash Studios, MILK, Art Basel Miami 2013, and in Los Angeles at the CUBE. Alexandria now works and resides in Palm Springs. 

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Brandon Lomax

About The Artist

Brandon Lomax is a sculptor and installation artist whose immersive experiences transport viewers through time and space, and back into themselves. His work is process-driven, informed by ecology and artifact and rooted in anthropological study.  Lomax’s site-specific public exhibitions punctuate time by encapsulating history into the rhythm of natural, daily cycles. He engages with ideas of logic, inequality and empathy, and strives to remind participants of their place within the cosmos and beyond. He has exhibited with galleries and art fairs both domestic and international and his work is held in numerous private and institutional collections, including The Bunker in West Palm Beach and the California Botanic Garden. He currently resides on the West Coast of Ireland, where he is studying the formations, flora and fauna of the glaciated karst landscape of the Burren.

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