The Therapist Office is a group exhibition of 20 artists, 1969’s largest exhibition to-date. An assembly of paintings, sculptures, drawings and photographs about the human need to daydream and document, the exhibition creates a more ideal waiting room in which to contemplate our individual experiences.

Almost always, waiting rooms are hell - in part, because waiting is hell. As we sit praying for negative test results, staring in disbelief about a missed connecting flight for that unexpected trip home or hating our too-proud selves for going to elective surgery alone, we look up and see neglected, ugly art. E-ve-ry-where. Tears begin to fall on last, last, last month’s Hola! opened in our laps. In a moment of potential transformation or whatever news, revelations and life-changing scenarios await us, The Therapist Office asserts the need in such environments for affirming, alluring and distracting artworks...

Like the rainbows in Quinn Gorbutt’s quizzical photograph and Chris Taylor’s multi-colored glass rubber bands. Vista-views from landscape paintings by Christopher Arvins and Kyle Utter alongside Amina Kerimova’s atmospheric painting that brings the vast world closer into view. Jenna Gribbon’s floating still-life-during-seance painting upend art historical motifs and Matt Lifson’s narrative beneath thin layers of paint illustrate how lived experiences can turn vaporous.

Some of the works in The Therapist Office are made in the context of therapy including KB Jones’ drawings while in-session; Robert Fry’s work seems traditional, but not many artists have painted their dads naked; Ken Griffen's work on paper forecasts what therapy might be like for a 29 year-old New Zealander artist newly-arrived into Manhattan; and a work by Sophie Calle whose tricky parents booked an appointment with a psychoanalyst and brought the 14-year old Sophie instead to a surgeon for rhinoplasty. Fittingly, Loup Sarion’s winsome, simpatico sculpture of a nose seems to bring together the energy in this waiting room, acknowledging the absurdity of the generation before - our parents give us so much to think about.

Participating artists not by alpha-last, not by birth order, just as they are: Loup Sarion, Kyle Utter, Christopher Arvan, Matt Lifson, Vahid Sharifian, Sophie Calle, Chris Taylor, KB Jones, Robert Fry, Andrew Salgado,, Quinn Gorbutt, Julien Gardair, Gary Gissler, Jenna Gribbon, Amina Kerimova, Michael Polubiec, David Packer, Ken Griffen, Christoph Niemann and Daniella Brahms.

http://www.1969gallery.com/future/

Salt and Coconut is a solo exhibition by the artist Amina Kerimova featuring her newest body of work.

Kerimova paints what she sees. Magnetically drawn to the simplest of things, she manages to convey the breadth of her experience. Curious, sensual dreamlike, humorous, Kerimova’s paintings speak softly but with clarity. There’s a sense of joy beneath her painting too, a joy she discovered somewhere along the way, and a joy she deftly translates to the canvas through color and shape. The tone of her work, the mood, may often be complex, but Kerimova’s paintings happily explain themselves to her audience in the simplest, truest ways. Whatever catches her eye, that’s what she gives us. And it's always a delight.

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