Under the Table

Press release

MEY is pleased to present Under the Table, a group exhibition featuring work by Xingxin Hu, Samuel Alexander Forest, Annabelle Parrish, Jimmy Cobb, Sydney Kleinrock, Lorenzo Lorenzetti, K.T. Kobel, Ryan Lee, Lucy Luckovich, and Tomas Schugurensky. In a world increasingly mediated by screens, Under the Table turns attention to the quiet gravity of everyday objects. Rooted in Duchamp’s radical recontextualization and the dreamlike dislocations of Therrien, this exhibition asks what happens when we look again—when a ball, a pair of shoes, or a shadow beneath a table can embody memory, meaning, or myth.

Under the Table operates as a dual reference: on one hand, it invokes Robert Therrien’s monumental 1994 sculpture, and on the other, it draws on the idiomatic expression to suggest acts that are concealed or unspoken. Widely recognized for his large-scale sculptures of everyday objects, Therrien examined the capacity of the quotidian to embody dimensions of both the personal and collective unconscious. Often, it is the objects hiding in plain sight that hold the potential to reveal the most obscured facets of the self.

Bringing together artists who work with, through, and around objecthood, this exhibition examines the ways in which the everyday—often dismissed as functional or mundane—can be charged with psychic, symbolic, and transformative potential. Through subtle shifts in context and material, the works in Under the Table reveal how the familiar can become a vessel for the deeply intimate.

Xingxin Hu, K.T. Kobel, and Lucy Luckovich’s paintings imbue objects with romantic intensity, transforming personal belongings into icons of memory, desire, and presence. Samuel Alexander Forest’s drawings depict items with a psychological charge; his bags and briefcases become carriers of interiority as much as carriers of the contents they were created for. Ryan Lee’s paintings function as quiet portraits of the mind, mapping affect through arrangements of the mundane. Annabelle Parrish’s paintings incorporate functional constructions and found objects into her work, while Jimmy Cobb’s carved wooden frames extend his paintings into physical space, thereby insisting on their objecthood. Sydney Kleinrock paints on quilts, invoking the domestic and tactile histories of craft and memory. Lorenzo Lorenzetti and Tomas Schugurensky challenge the boundary between function and form; their art becomes utilitarian and vice versa, inviting reflection on how we assign value and attention to the materials that surround us.

Under the Table invites viewers to dwell in the margins—beneath the surface and beyond the obvious—where the familiar and the functional can become vessels of memory, emotion, and transformation.

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