Anya Tish Gallery is thrilled to announce two solo exhibitions opening this summer: Gao Hang, Surface or Skin and Suzette Mouchaty, Nudies in the Cube. Utilizing their mediums, Hang - painting, Mouchaty - sculpture, both artists create discourse, either concerning the impact of social media’s instant gratification and image manipulation on our society or addressing the effects of global warming on the environment. 

Suzette Mouchaty’s nudibranch series is composed of three human-scale sculptures representing giant marine slugs that are made from coated hand-carved Styrofoam. The forms are stylized, emphasizing the smooth rounded curves, undulating bodies, and sharp color contrasts characteristic of nudibranchs found in coral reefs. Elegant, sensuous, and slightly mysterious, these creatures appear to crawl around the floor of the gallery. The political implications are represented by the nudibranchs, which are indicators of climate change, damaging coral reef ecosystems. The artist asserts this theme with the use of Styrofoam which sickens and kills marine animals that mistake floating bits for food. Mouchaty’s goal is to stimulate awareness about today’s state of ecology by presenting strange, yet compelling objects that attract the viewer.