For All Tide
Quarters Gallery is excited to present the work of prolific Ridgewood based artist Philip Hinge. ‘For All Tide’ will be on view for one weekend only in the laundry room space. This show is (particularly) meaningful to me, as Philip’s unconventional programming practice was a huge inspiration to the inception of Quarters Gallery. Monkey see monkey do, I guess! But here we turn our attention to another species…cats & a few of their antagonistic counterparts (such as mice and fish). In lieu of a press release, ‘For All Tide’ is accompanied by a short fan fiction based on the 1970’s animated film The Aristocats. The story takes place shortly after the film concludes from the POV of Roquefort the mouse, who struggles to adjust to his new domestic life with Thomas O’Malley and the Alley Cats. For those unfamiliar, fan fiction or “fanfic” refers to the unauthorized expansion of an existing work of fiction by the labor of it’s fans.
‘For All Tide’ will be up through March 16th, with Sunday open hours held from 12-4PM. Kindly respond to this email to receive the workslist, and please share it with anyone you think might enjoy the work!
Philip Hinge (b. Seattle WA, 1988) is an artist, curator and project space operator based in Ridgewood, NY. Hinge holds an MFA in painting from the Virginia Commonwealth University. His work has been exhibited at a variety of venues, including International Water (Brooklyn, NY), Martos Gallery (NY,NY) Brennan & Griffin (NY, NY), 427 (Riga, Latvia), Final Hot Desert (Utah), Melange (Cologne, DE), Swanson Kuball (LIC, NY), Plague Space (Krasnador, RU), Freddy, (Harrison, NY), & Lower Cavity (Holyoke, MA).
In addition to his studio work, Hinge also runs and curates two separate projects, Catbox Contemporary (Ridgewood, NY), and darkzone (NJ). Catbox Contemporary has regularly held exhibitions in and out of Hinge’s apartment since 2017, with notable external shows being held at Alyssa Davis Gallery (NY, NY), Hot Wheels Athens (Athens, Greece), Felix Art Fair (2019), and Baitball (Polignano a Amare, Italy). darkZone was started in 2019 in Hinge’s childhood’s home’s basement. The project in its original form concluded in 2022 with the sale of the house.