A Group Exhibition Co-Curated by art_works and Abigail Ogilvy Gallery

Hosted by Brodin Gallery, Los Angeles

Hard ‘n' Soft includes twelve artists working across painting, sculpture, fiber, ceramics, photography, and mixed media: Mishael Coggeshall-Burr, Alison Croney Moses, Tallulah Dirnfeld, Yasmine Esfandiary, Brodin, Cassandra C. Jones, Wilhelm Neusser, Katrina Sánchez, Elspeth Schulze, Leigh Suggs, Kelly Witmer, and Natalia Wróbel.

Hard ‘n' Soft explores the contested boundary between rigidity and flexibility in contemporary art, bringing together artists who deliberately subvert the expected properties of their materials. Through bronze rendered weightless, stone veiled in delicacy, fiber assuming geometric precision, and paint dissolving solid form, these works challenge the material hierarchies that have long structured art historical discourse.

The exhibition centers on artists who refuse categorical certainty. Rather, the assumed behaviors of media become sites of transformation: rigid materials yield and soften, solid forms turn fluid, soft substances achieve architectural presence. By inverting our expectations of how materials should perform, these artists invite us to reconsider not only the nature of their chosen media but the perceptual frameworks through which we encounter contemporary art itself.