Jacob Hashimoto’s Gas Giant

Jacob Hashimoto (b. 1973, Greeley, Colorado), is an artist whose work studies visual experience in space, artifice, and craft through the use of materials such as handmade kites, fiberglass, marble and the skillful use of light. Combining traditional kite-making techniques and painting into sculptural environments, Hashimoto creates massive space-altering installations with thousands of thin paper sheets. For MOCA Pacific Design Center, Hashimoto is producing the third and final edition of Gas Giant. The work was previously presented in Venice, Italy in 2013 Fondazione Querini Stampalia by Studio la Citta and in Chicago in 2012 at Rhona Hoffman Gallery. This exhibition will be the first LA presentation of Gas Giant and will mark Hashimoto's first solo museum exhibition in California.

Jacob Hashimoto's Gas Giant is organized by Alma Ruiz, Senior Curator, and Selene Preciado, Curatorial Assistant, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.