Jacob Hashimoto constructs site-specific installations and intricately layered artworks that merge elements of painting and sculpture. Referencing video games, digital realms, and cosmology, Hashimoto’s practice draws upon craft and art history, particularly modernism
and abstraction. 

In a lowercase sky, Hashimoto transforms the gallery into an immersive installation that engages with the building’s unique architecture. Inspired by global kite-making traditions, the artist creates a striking visual landscape formed by hundreds of handmade paper discs of white and elaborately patterned paper that span the gallery. 

Created from overlapping strands of suspended kites, Hashimoto’s elaborate wall compositions reveal constantly changing patterns and imagery as our viewpoint shifts around the work. Stretching across two gallery walls, a vast grid of 192 woodblock prints offers a visual catalog of motifs used by the artist. 

In a lowercase sky, Jacob Hashimoto builds a complex world in which the everyday becomes extraordinary, inviting us to explore the possibilities of our imagination.

Jacob Hashimoto (b. 1973, Greeley, Colorado) is a graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His artwork has been featured in museum exhibitions internationally, including at MOCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art (MACRO), Rome; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), California, and Aaltonen Museum of Art, Finland. He lives and works in Ossining, New York.

Image: Jacob Hashimoto, Prying into the Secrets of the Sky, 2015 (detail), paper, bamboo, acrylic, wood, and Dacron

BCA's summer exhibitions are supported in part by the Maslow Family Foundation and Todd Lockwood. Hospitality sponsor, Lake Champlain Chocolates. Burlington City Arts is supported in part by the Vermont Arts Council & the National Endowment for the Arts.