Dates: September 29th – October 14th, 2018

Opening Reception: September 29th 6-8pm

Hours: Sat-Mon 12-6 (by appointment)

White Couch is pleased to present Christina Graham’s solo exhibition DUPLEX.

Recently, Christina Graham characterized the duplex as “a specific space that never really existed, a learned duplicity, a feeling or emotion that proliferates… a symmetry split down the middle into two suspiciously convenient halves.” This dualistic description has an etymological justification: the English word “duplex” has the latin roots “duo” (meaning “two”) and “plicare” (a verb meaning “to fold”).  Thus, “duplex” conjures a semantic memory of the “two fold.”

In DUPLEX, the minimalism of Graham’s first solo show at Brethren Gallery has transformed from a reflection on a Ridgewood space to a conceptual question concerning the nature of the counterpart image and the assumed binary. The work becomes duplex through doubling the viewer’s perceptual recognition of objects, things, and themselves.

Graham’s interest in the tropes of post-war American painting peek out in DUPLEX, as she reveals a passionate, free-associative inquiry into the possibility and mythology of perception. Relationships loom in the bittersweet background of Christina’s paintings and installations. Mirrors never quite touching––never truthfully reflecting––she presents fractured wholes that reflect the complexities of a life.  These quiet, intimate, powerful juxtapositions challenge the boundaries of assumptions, both imposed and self-generated.

She seeks to unfold these compound life-and-love-poems in her newest works.

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Christina Graham was born in NYC in 1989. She has attended Cuttyhunk Island Residency, this past September 2018, the Trestle Artist Residency, and the Vermont Studio Center. “DUPLEX” is the artist’s second solo show, with her first, “Ridgewood Reflections,” at Brethren Gallery, July 19–August 16, in Queens, NY.