Perrotin Hong Kong is pleased to announce Spectrum, a solo exhibition by New York - based artist, Josh Sperling. This marks the artist’s first show in Hong Kong. Donald Judd must have been thinking about his fellow artist and friend Frank Stella when he famously wrote: “The main thing wrong with painting is that it is a rectangular plane placed flat against the wall” (“Specific Objects”, 1965). Five years earlier, in 1960, Stella had started making shaped paintings, often in a L, U, N, or a T shape, using aluminum and copper paint, and initiating a whole new possibility in art.

It is this and other formal breakthroughs that Josh Sperling builds upon as well as extends in his conceptualization of two signature forms, “squiggles” and “double bubbles.” Defying conventional definitions, the “squiggles” and “double bubbles” are painted sculptural forms. In order to make these hybrid forms, the artist has developed a meticulous process that culminates in canvas stretched over a precisely stepped plywood support in the shape of a curving or wavy line (squiggle) or two circles that seem to be stretching apart (double bubble).

Gallery address: Suite 807, 8/F, K11 Atelier Victoria Dockside, 18 Salisbury Road,Tsim Sha Tsui