Janet Loren Hill
Company Town: Where Truths Are Made Correct (Snailbrook, TX), 2025
Gouache on paper
22 x 30 inches
About the Exhibition
This exhibition features recent work by artists Janet Loren Hill and Andrew Casto. Hill’s shaped paintings present surreal characters moving through complex environments, tracing various global histories of coercion, labor, and the potential for rupture.
Casto’s recent work—whose formal language is based on a material study of geological processes translated into ceramic and mixed-media vessel forms—explores the connection between “macrocosmic” environmental change and interruptions in our often routine existence.
Visually, their work plays both against and with each other: painting vs. ceramic, large vs. small scale, use of texture, the absurd and the sublime, decadent color, and sometimes unnerving forms. Contextually, they share a use of humor and absurdity, varied references to the body, and commentary on our world.
Andrew Casto
Andrew Casto (b. USA, 1977) lives and works in Iowa City, and has exhibited work internationally in Spain, Croatia, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Belgium, New Zealand, China, Switzerland, France, England, and Japan. He was a recipient of the Emerging Artist award by the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, a long-term resident at The Archie Bray Foundation, as well as a finalist for the Young Masters Maylis Grand Ceramics Prize in London. Casto has exhibited in over ninety group and solo exhibitions, and is currently Professor and Director of The School of Art, Art History, and Design at The University of Iowa.
Janet Loren Hill
Janet Loren Hill is a New York City-based artist and educator whose work exists at the intersection of textiles, ceramics and painting. Dripping with absurdity she has built a world around the Chattering Teeth and Hammerhead People who play out propaganda techniques within her paintings and installations. Hill received an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a BFA from the University of Washington, where she also studied in Rome, Italy as part of the University’s studio art program. She has exhibited at numerous galleries nationally, including Field Projects Gallery (NYC), The Border Project Space (NYC) and Abigail Ogilvy Gallery (Boston). Her solo show, Origin Story, at Kapow Gallery (NYC) received critical acclaim in Widewalls magazine. Hill has participated in multiple residencies internationally, including Wassaic Project, Anderson Ranch, McColl Center, Beijing Royal School and The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (EFA) Studio Program. Hill’s work has been recognized in Artnet, Hyperallergic, The Boston Globe, Boston Art Review and W Magazine. In 2017, Hill was spotlighted in the MFA Annual Edition of New American Paintings by Elisabeth Sherman, Assistant Curator at the Whitney Museum of Art.
Andrew Casto
More Slush, 2025
Porcelain and gold
12 x 11 x 9 inches
Andrew Casto
Heterochromia, 2025
Porcelain and gold
7 x 6 x 15 inches
Andrew Casto
On All Fours, 2025
Porcelain, gold, and white gold
13 x 11 x 15 inches
Andrew Casto
New Accumulation Series 11, 2024
Porcelain and gold
8 x 8 x 9 inches
Andrew Casto
New Accumulation Series 14, 2025
Porcelain and gold
6 x 7 x 6 inches
Andrew Casto
We Spoke of Fireflies, 2025
Porcelain and gold
18 x 16 x 15 inches
Andrew Casto
We Know Fiction When We See It, 2025
Porcelain and gold
Andrew Casto
Hard Fawn, 2024
Porcelain, stoneware, rubber, gold, and white gold
15 x 15 x 18 inches
Andrew Casto
Huron Crush, 2025
Porcelain and gold
7 x 8 x 16 inches
Janet Loren Hill
Hammerhead Banner: Catching Flight and Whatever Drops Next, 2025
Gouache on paper
17 x 11 inches
Janet Loren Hill
Hammerhead Banner: Eagle-Eyed and Swung Through, 2025
Gouache on paper
17 x 11 inches
Janet Loren Hill
Hammerhead Banner: Sounding Like The Galloping Horses At The Root Of It All, 2025
Gouache on paper
17 x 11 inches
Janet Loren Hill
Hammerhead Banner: Grounded but Guarded, 2024
Gouache on paper
17 x 14 inches
Janet Lore Hill
Binocular Viewpoint: Some Kind of Origin Story, 2023
Oil on canvas, textile wrapped upholstery foam and vintage needlepoint
52 x 80 x 2 inches
Janet Loren Hill
Binocular Viewpoint: Grabbing at any kind of divider or meaning-maker, 2024
Oil on canvas, textile wrapped archival foam, beads, glazed ceramic, fabric, and vintage
needlepoint
66 x 30 x 6 inches
Janet Loren Hill
Binocular Viewpoint: Workshopping *Strikethrough* Cultivating A Language of Violence, 2024
Oil on canvas, textile wrapped archival foam, and vintage needlepoint
52 x 80 x 2 inches
Janet Loren Hill
Chattering Teeth
Janet Loren Hill
Standard Bearer: Be The Last To Watch It Fall, 2024
Glazed ceramic, oil on canvas,fabric, thread, sequins, and plastic rod
52 x 13 x 4 inches
Janet Loren Hill
Company Town: Instruments for War (Steinway Village),2025
Gouache on paper
22 x 30 inches
Janet Loren Hill
Company Town: Instruments for War (Steinway Village) (detail), 2025
Gouache on paper
22 x 30 inches
