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The Hole is proud to announce our second solo exhibition with British-born, Brooklyn-based artist Xavier Baxter. Following his 2024 Los Angeles debut, Titans, this new body of work, Carnage, presents a more raw, more personal chapter for the artist. Fourteen new large-scale oil paintings will fill our Bowery gallery with slashing gestures, smeared limbs, and painterly violence. In the back gallery, a site-specific installation transforms the space into a refrigerator box from Baxter’s childhood.
Baxter’s paintings are unrelenting. He attacks the canvas with brushes, trowels, scrapers—building dense fields of oil paint that churn with energy and threat. Figures stagger through the wreckage, across surfaces are layered, torn open and rebuilt. The works seem to depict an aftermath—paintings as explosions, as breakdowns, as physical records of psychological weather. Carnage piles up the parts with loads of limbs, a clattering of bone and pounds of flesh. These paintings walk a line…
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The Hole is proud to announce our second solo exhibition with British-born, Brooklyn-based artist Xavier Baxter. Following his 2024 Los Angeles debut, Titans, this new body of work, Carnage, presents a more raw, more personal chapter for the artist. Fourteen new large-scale oil paintings will fill our Bowery gallery with slashing gestures, smeared limbs, and painterly violence. In the back gallery, a site-specific installation transforms the space into a refrigerator box from Baxter’s childhood.
Baxter’s paintings are unrelenting. He attacks the canvas with brushes, trowels, scrapers—building dense fields of oil paint that churn with energy and threat. Figures stagger through the wreckage, across surfaces are layered, torn open and rebuilt. The works seem to depict an aftermath—paintings as explosions, as breakdowns, as physical records of psychological weather. Carnage piles up the parts with loads of limbs, a clattering of bone and pounds of flesh. These paintings walk a line…
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