Sidecar is pleased to present There is Feeling, a group exhibition featuring work by Sydney Acosta, Adrian Culverson, Catherine Fairbanks, Christopher Paul Jordan, Hea-Mi Kim, Kristy Luck, Roni Shneior, and Tran Truong. The exhibition is organized in collaboration with Eve Fowler and Artist Curated Projects (ACP).
![Installation view of “There is Feeling”](https://img.artlogic.net/w_3600,h_3600,c_limit/exhibit-e/65d8bc254396505d2b06d732/44239befd2ce3631fdaf0a66d75166dc.jpeg)
There is Feeling, installation view, 2024
![Layers of acrylic gel tranfser images of objects and an upside down face in maroons and blues on a large window screen hung loose on the wall.](https://img.artlogic.net/w_3600,h_3600,c_limit/exhibit-e/65d8bc254396505d2b06d732/1e4079711de267601970dd205820cb55.jpeg)
Christopher Paul Jordan, a fix, 2022
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There is Feeling, installation view, 2024
![Cloudy washes of grey and pale purples comprise a painting that reveals a distant city scape seemingly surrounded by cloud.](https://img.artlogic.net/w_3600,h_3600,c_limit/exhibit-e/65d8bc254396505d2b06d732/6a566b3776710e10b0b55fa69ea51044.jpeg)
Roni Shneior, Fata Morgana, 2024
![Detail of the distant cityscape in Roni Shneior's "Fata Morgana"](https://img.artlogic.net/w_3600,h_3600,c_limit/exhibit-e/65d8bc254396505d2b06d732/fed34268762ebeb01871368e1f91ad20.jpeg)
Roni Shneior, Fata Morgana, detail, 2024
The exhibition’s title is lifted from the text of an original artwork created by Fowler which reads: in the evening there is feeling. This signage was installed at the original Night Gallery location in LA’s Lincoln Heights neighborhood, which had gallery hours between 10PM and 2AM from 2010 to 2013. The phrase suggests the diffusion of emotions and sensations between people and twilit landscapes.
![Installation view of “There is Feeling”](https://img.artlogic.net/w_3600,h_3600,c_limit/exhibit-e/65d8bc254396505d2b06d732/d88aa9e42605ea5732ab5f0798a6e037.jpeg)
There is Feeling, installation view, 2024
![A painting of a paned window rendered in purple and pinks.](https://img.artlogic.net/w_3600,h_3600,c_limit/exhibit-e/65d8bc254396505d2b06d732/d2609d51477dd2f4932ad810d89eccb5.jpeg)
Tran Truong, Pink Sky, 2023
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There is Feeling, installation view, 2024
Fowler took these lines from Tender Buttons, Gertrude Stein’s 1914 collection of modernist prose poems. Stein used experimental language to present everyday life as unfamiliar and uncanny. In Stein’s original poem, she writes, “In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling,” marking a subtle distinction between meaning and feeling as sources of understanding. The works assembled in the exhibition emphasize the latter: an emotive evening logic or sensibility.
![A painting of the yellow lines on a pale blue road reaching a horizon line.](https://img.artlogic.net/w_3600,h_3600,c_limit/exhibit-e/65d8bc254396505d2b06d732/04c69e54dd133ed0ac57bb9f015e2788.jpeg)
Tran Truong, Road, 2024
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There is Feeling, installation view, 2024
![A lavender painting of a green hill with clouds above and a cut out revealing a black polkadot on paper beneath the wood panel.](https://img.artlogic.net/w_3600,h_3600,c_limit/exhibit-e/65d8bc254396505d2b06d732/5d9e90955a5b787ebd105977f5fbda3b.jpeg)
Hea-Mi Kim, overlooking Michigan Ave from the car window, 2024
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There is Feeling, installation view, 2024
The landscape itself emerges as a distinct character amid the canvases on view. In a painting by Roni Shneior, the figure and landscape blend together with surreal humor. Two vertical slabs—which could be cloud formations, towering buttes, or tall buildings that arise from purple mist—sport sculptural noses that protrude from the canvas. Within a sewn sculptural work by Adrian Culverson, bulbous forms rest atop a square frame warp, distorting a nature scene from a textile pattern. The repeated, graphic image bursts into three-dimensional space.
![Green leaf patterned fabric stretched around a rectangular wood panel with plush green twisted fabric curling along the top.](https://img.artlogic.net/w_3600,h_3600,c_limit/exhibit-e/65d8bc254396505d2b06d732/5318d679169c2770802187103ac3c043.jpeg)
Adrian Culverson, Ferry, 2024
![Detail of Adrian Culverson's "Ferry", 2024](https://img.artlogic.net/w_3600,h_3600,c_limit/exhibit-e/65d8bc254396505d2b06d732/cf2962945180ff148d488902551a6058.jpeg)
Adrian Culverson, Ferry, detail, 2024
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There is Feeling, installation view, 2024
![Installation view of “There is Feeling”](https://img.artlogic.net/w_3600,h_3600,c_limit/exhibit-e/65d8bc254396505d2b06d732/6be6cb9bf3218bf2b81d12f61ff45951.jpeg)
There is Feeling, installation view, 2024
![A large painting in deep blues and maroons with green lily pads afloat in the watery plane.](https://img.artlogic.net/w_3600,h_3600,c_limit/exhibit-e/65d8bc254396505d2b06d732/22139d2e96373ba282aca8db82ffa7cf.jpeg)
Catherine Fairbanks, All the Lakes at Once, 2024
In Catherine Fairbanks’s paintings, barely distinguishable figures recline against the horizon. They generate a ghostly landscape and fold into its topography. This composition obscures distance and scale, defamiliarizing the divide between the body and the natural world. Kristy Luck and Hea-Mi Kim further this degree of abstraction, painting landscapes from overlapping, biomorphic shapes and layers of color and shadow.
![A small ochre painting with loose brushstrokes depicting a tree in a field.](https://img.artlogic.net/w_3600,h_3600,c_limit/exhibit-e/65d8bc254396505d2b06d732/96ccd6abe3fd5b43c9152671fb0657e3.jpeg)
Sydney Acosta, Burnt Image, 2022
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There is Feeling, installation view, 2024
![A painting with overlapping forms of a similar fallopian/floral shape rendered in pinks and purples.](https://img.artlogic.net/w_3600,h_3600,c_limit/exhibit-e/65d8bc254396505d2b06d732/2c8653bf611e46beed140206d74a4557.jpeg)
Kristy Luck, Know and Hide, 2024
![A ceramic hill-like form with two robotic eyes with long eyes lashes that blink while looking upwards.](https://img.artlogic.net/w_3600,h_3600,c_limit/exhibit-e/65d8bc254396505d2b06d732/9601c990f6ce1884b8bf12d902a7d5f7.jpeg)
Roni Shneior, Tel, 2024
![Detail of Roni Shneior's "Tel", 2024](https://img.artlogic.net/w_3600,h_3600,c_limit/exhibit-e/65d8bc254396505d2b06d732/c6ae2808a0a1b8916ddb1167f3b34a07.jpeg)
Roni Shneior, Tel, detail, 2024
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There is Feeling, installation view, 2024
![A small pale green painting of a swirling form with light pink cloud shapes in the periphery of the spiral.](https://img.artlogic.net/w_3600,h_3600,c_limit/exhibit-e/65d8bc254396505d2b06d732/c7088ba3cb2e50d0b41275a5d9eeb71c.jpeg)
Kristy Luck, Untitled, 2024
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There is Feeling, installation view, 2024
Sydney Acosta and Tran Truong, on the other hand, include symbols of the urban streetscape. Cars, traffic lights, and window frames appear throughout their paintings, which remain resolutely subjective and idiosyncratic. In Christopher Paul Jordan’s work, domestic scenes and familial figures that evoke decades-old photo albums are inverted, collaged, and remixed on un-stretched screen and mesh materials. In keeping with the spirit of Stein’s original text, these paintings convey the surprises that can emerge from close observation of one’s mundane surroundings. Such moments of recognition or disassociation give texture to daily life.
![Installation view of “There is Feeling”](https://img.artlogic.net/w_3600,h_3600,c_limit/exhibit-e/65d8bc254396505d2b06d732/a71bdeee5f5f5b0ba9f83d179c3cd42d.jpeg)
There is Feeling, installation view, 2024
![An acrylic painting on a window screen of legs climbing a green mass in nikes with shades of pink surrounding.](https://img.artlogic.net/w_3600,h_3600,c_limit/exhibit-e/65d8bc254396505d2b06d732/bbb9be4109f79a0baa150912cf38620e.jpeg)
Christopher Paul Jordan, a thief in the night, 2023
![Detail of Christopher Paul Jordan's "a thief in the night", 2023](https://img.artlogic.net/w_3600,h_3600,c_limit/exhibit-e/65d8bc254396505d2b06d732/044c0e3b0d67676073651ab7ef9454b0.jpeg)
Christopher Paul Jordan, a thief in the night, detail, 2023
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There is Feeling, installation view, 2024
![A painting rendered in pale pinks, blues and purples depicting a series of doorways leading into one another.](https://img.artlogic.net/w_3600,h_3600,c_limit/exhibit-e/65d8bc254396505d2b06d732/22f92a484ab36732e5fdc6a6ff4997de.jpeg)
Tran Truong, Interior, 2023
“In feeling there is recognition,” Stein writes in Tender Buttons. The works throughout the exhibition elicit this intuitive identification instead of asking for analytical interpretation or offering one clear, apprehended meaning. They provide a frisson of unexpected intimacy, like a stranger passing on the street in the fading evening light.
—Logan Lockner