Featuring work by:
AARON COLEY (New York, NY)
DIEGO MEDINA (Taos, NM)
HYESHIN CHUN (Los Angeles, CA)
JASON BENSON (Santa Fe, NM)
JOHNNY DEFEO (Taos, NM)
LOU BREININGER (Los Angeles, CA)
MARGARET THOMPSON (Santa Fe, NM)
MARK RODRIGUEZ (Ojo Caliente, NM)
MEGAN MACUEN (Santa Fe, NM)
RAOUL OLOU (Toronto, ON)
RYAN CRUDGINGTON (Santa Fe, NM)
SAMALA MEZA (Los Angeles, CA)

Low Earth Orbit presents a spaced out and studious collection of painting and sculpture by 13 contemporary artists: Aaron Coley, Cory Feder, Diego Medina, Hyeshin Chun, Jason Benson, Johnny Defeo, Lou Breininger, Margaret Thompson, Mark Rodriguez, Megan Macuen, Raoul Olou, Ryan Crudgington and Samala Meza. The works in this show occupy a zone of earthly ascension—each artist united by a devotion to objects, forms and lively gaps in translation.

Low Earth Orbit has a technical reference, both in object and altitude. The term refers to the lowest orbital realm above earth, which is home to most of the satellites sent into space and the large majority of “space junk” in earth's orbit. Low earth satellites have some drawbacks: limited fields of view, quick orbital decay, and frequent orbital control required. It is in this zone where things become lost and found simultaneously, set adrift in the greater heavens.

There is a specific tone to the object-oriented nostalgia throughout Low Earth Orbit. Rather than wistfulness, the artists in the show present a suite of works buzzing with reconstituted energy, simultaneously reverent and wacky. While the works in this show travel toward and through a higher awareness, they find their origins in the consecration of ordinary objects and gestures. Each piece in Low Earth Orbit is bringing the heavens down, often with a playful gesture: plastic ‘thank you’ bags, woven industrial trash cans, creatures that might have walked away from their post on the lawn and lusciously pigmented paintings of morphed symbols and hovering orbs all playing off each other in the expanded field.

The work in Low Earth Orbit has its own understanding of the low object's transcendent potential. Occupying a space of translation and exposition, artworks float through the gallery accumulating their own relational gravity. It is the lower frequency of the heavenly plane that demands our attention here—a way to bring it all down, to align and alight the base of the universe.