Today from our partners at Art Practical, we bring you a review of Julian Hoeber’s solo exhibition The Inward Turn. Author Amanda N. Simons says of the paintings in the exhibition, “Lining the walls of the gallery, the surreal architecture of Hoeber’s paintings offers a conceptual meditation on the infinite that is unbound by the physics that governs three-dimensional work.” This article was originally published on December 1, 2015.

Julian Hoeber. The Inward Turn; installation view. Courtesy of the Artist and Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco.

Imagine departing on a journey in which your destination is simply a return to the same place of origin. Upon your return, you find yourself unchanged. Intact. Undigested. Whole. And exactly where you started. The Inward Turn, Julian Hoeber’s solo exhibition at Jessica Silverman Gallery, offers such a proposal.

In all of its twists and turns and deviations, the exhibition’s paintings, sculptures, and works on paper always turn the viewer inward. And yet, in this closed, infinite system, there is more to ponder than the paradoxical experience of such a visual journey. The texture, imperfections, and meandering tangents of the system itself offer reprieve from the loop, and a space to meditate upon the causal binary relationships of loop and looped, of mold and cast, and of viewer and visual artifact.

Read the full article here.