Over the Influence Hong Kong is pleased to announce Communion, a new series of paintings and drawings by New York based artist Michal Dotson.  The exhibition will be on view from May 20 – June 30, 2022. This is the artist’s first exhibition in Asia and his second presentation with the gallery.

In this body of work, Dotson shifts away from his signature vibrantly distorted Disney imagery, and steps into the galactic and mysterious world of aliens. The title of the exhibition, Communion, draws from a novel under the same name written by Whitley Strieber in 1987, which recounts the author’s many encounters with extraterrestrial beings.

Communion first evolved while Dotson was quarantined due to contracting Covid-19. Confined to empty quarters, the artist found himself asking, when left alone with drawing tools and nothing else, what does one create? Each work in Communion begins as a fluid, gestural sketch, which Dotson then transfers to photoshop and manipulates. The result is painted in Dotson’s recognizable style-crisp, precise, and electrically saturated. The collection of work is uniformly named “Close Encounter” with an assigned number and letter designation, uniting the work as a whole-a community of ghostly aliens, rather than separate entities existing on their own.⁠

On View from 20 May – 30 June 2022 with an opening reception on this coming Thursday 19 May.⁠

Gallery address: G/F & 1/F 159-163 Hollywood Road, Central