“He always thought of the sea as ‘la mar’ which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman. Some of the younger fishermen, those who used buoys as floats for their lines and had motorboats, bought when the shark livers had brought much money, spoke of her as ‘el mar’ which is masculine.They spoke of her as a contestant or a place or even an enemy. But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favours, and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them. The moon affects her as it does a woman, he thought.”

Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

09.05-09.12.25 Unknown,
Portrait of a Basque fisher, 1924

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Sound with Fog Brook Hsu - The Frame NYC

Brook Hsu (b. 1987) lives and works in New York and Wyoming. Hsu received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2010 and her MFA from Yale University in 2016. Hsu deploys and weaves the autobiographical and the mythopoetic into paintings using an array of materials, including ink, oil paint, industrial carpets, and off-cuts of ready-made lumber. The sources for Hsu’s imagery come from her own observations, sometimes arising from art history, film and literature. Working across painting, drawing, sculpture and writing, her works aim to question how we define representation today, producing abstract and figurative works that employ a host of signs and motifs, recounting stories of love, pain and humor. Hsu says of her practice, ‘I seek to understand what we value in life by asking how we value the world.’

Her work is part of the collections of:

Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris
Yan Du Collection, London
Boros Collection, Berlin
Philara Collection, Düsseldorf
X Museum, Beijing
Long Museum, Shanghai.

06.25-07.03.25 Brook Hsu,
Sound with Fog, 2022

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“He always thought of the sea as ‘la mar’ which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman. Some of the younger fishermen, those who used buoys as floats for their lines and had motorboats, bought when the shark livers had brought much money, spoke of her as ‘el mar’ which is masculine.They spoke of her as a contestant or a place or even an enemy. But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favours, and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them. The moon affects her as it does a woman, he thought.”

Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

06.25-07.03.25

Brook Hsu,
Sound with Fog, 2022

Her work is part of the collections of:

Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris
Yan Du Collection, London
Boros Collection, Berlin
Philara Collection, Düsseldorf
X Museum, Beijing
Long Museum, Shanghai.

Untitled (After Lascaux) Dylan Solomon Kraus - The Frame NYC

06.05-06.15.25

Dylan Solomon Kraus ,
Untitled (After Lascaux), 2016

Oil on masonite

9 × 12 in. (22.7 × 30.5 cm)

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Credits Design → Cecil-studio

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