{"id":12786,"date":"2025-12-08T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=12786"},"modified":"2025-12-03T07:22:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T12:22:41","slug":"jacob-hashimoto-the-bittersweet-fall-into-actuality-at-miles-mcenery-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/08\/jacob-hashimoto-the-bittersweet-fall-into-actuality-at-miles-mcenery-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Hashimoto, &#8216;The bittersweet fall into actuality&#8217; at Miles McEnery Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jacobhashimoto.com\">Jacob Hashimoto<\/a>\u2019s new wall-mounted paper and bamboo sculptures at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milesmcenery.com\/exhibitions\/jacob-hashimoto3\">Miles McEnery Gallery<\/a> have tantalizing titles (\u2018The problem with bubbles\u2019 and \u2018It was all possible until it wasn\u2019t\u2019) but are resolutely abstract.\u00a0 Inspired by structures from circuit-boards to cells, Hashimoto has described his work as an open system that allows viewers in, validating a variety of experience.\u00a0 Nevertheless, he seems to be edging closer to representation with this multi-colored, riotously patterned construction titled, \u2018The bittersweet fall into actuality.\u2019\u00a0 Anchored in a form suggesting a tree, the artist\u2019s step towards \u2018actuality\u2019 is still enjoyably open to interpretation. (On view in Chelsea through Dec 20<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 2074px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/b096c3c7-275a-d866-ecb5-cbb0dd5f9537.jpg\" alt=\"An artwork composed of layers of small paper disks with abstract patterning.  The entire pattern suggests a tree at the center with surrounding abstract patterns.\" width=\"2074\" height=\"2482\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacob Hashimoto, The bittersweet fall into actuality, acrylic, paper, bamboo, wood and Dacron, 60 x 48 x 8 \u00bc inches, 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 4284px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/08379545-0603-b039-1b09-30e429777961.jpg\" alt=\"Detail of the artwork showing abstract patterns of green, white and brown on circular disks.\" width=\"4284\" height=\"5712\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacob Hashimoto, (detail) The bittersweet fall into actuality, acrylic, paper, bamboo, wood and Dacron, 60 x 48 x 8 \u00bc inches, 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob Hashimoto\u2019s new wall-mounted paper and bamboo sculptures at Miles McEnery Gallery have tantalizing titles (\u2018The problem with bubbles\u2019 and \u2018It was all possible until it wasn\u2019t\u2019) but are resolutely abstract.\u00a0 Inspired by structures from circuit-boards to cells, Hashimoto has described his work as an open system that allows viewers in, validating a variety of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/08\/jacob-hashimoto-the-bittersweet-fall-into-actuality-at-miles-mcenery-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jacob Hashimoto, &#8216;The bittersweet fall into actuality&#8217; at Miles McEnery Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[4743,117,13,3490,7948,1628,10,11566,1859],"class_list":["post-12786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-bamboo","tag-chelsea","tag-gallery","tag-jacob-hashimoto","tag-miles-mcenery","tag-paper","tag-sculpture","tag-the-bittersweet-fall-into-actuality","tag-wall-sculpture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-3ke","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12788,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12786\/revisions\/12788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}