Palo Gallery is pleased to present Kim Faler: Something that Feels like Truth. This
exhibition marks the artist’s second solo show at Palo Gallery. With works that defy
medium through exciting forays into painting, photography, and sculpture, Faler
accomplishes reaching a new step in her career.
Something that Feels like Truth, a collection of works inspired by a book of short stories,
under the same name by Donald Lystra, explores the anxiety and doubt that fog our
daily experience, through painting, photography, and sculpture. The work comes from
Faler’s interest in how humans hold, lift, and bend ourselves into something we believe
to be true, all the while, questioning if and how long the legs of these ideas will hold.
The artist’s work always begins with the productive act of thinking through process and
material. Much like a personal journal, Faler begins with what she knows, and then
attempts to unravel the emotion that sits below the surface. Similarly, the artist
deconstructs the idea and structure of a painting, breaking it down to its elemental parts
– stretcher bars, canvas, gesture, image, and object. This dissection allows Faler to
investigate materiality while also engaging in the dialogue about how uncertainty
creeps in when you see the parts aside from the whole.
In the end, this group of works reminds us of ourselves – our hands, the discards of our
lives from chewed bubble gum to charred wood. Together the works reinforce how we
cobble ourselves and our worlds together in a delicate balance of material, idea, and
the sheer stamina to keep going.
Palo Gallery I 30 Bond Street, New York
Kim Faler Something that Feels like Truth
September 9 - October 9
