Hope Creek

Girl Horse, Cliche, Trixie Dixie and Pixie, and Troxler Sister

Tarrant Hightopp

Erewhon Skin Bile

Tarrant Hightopp, 2024 Image transfer, oil paint, biodegradable plastic

Girl Horse, 2024 Graphite drawing

Trixie, Dixie and Pixie, 2024 digital manipulation, inkjet print

Cliche, 2023 Salt and silver nitrate on canvas, rubber, makeup, spit

Troxler Sister, 2024 digital manipulation, inkjet print, duct tape

Erewhon Skin Bile, 2024 Image transfer, latex, biodegradable plastic

Titled Empathy, 2024 UV print on acid tab sheets, wood panel, biodegradable plastic, t-shirt

Titled Empathy

Tarrant Hightopp

Girl Horse, Cliche, Trixie Dixie and Pixie, and Troxler Sister

Girl Horse

Cliche

Erewhon Skin Bile

Hope Creek is a nuclear power plant in New Jersey. Hope Creek is also a group show by SOAP Magazine, featuring works from Danka Latorre, Roan Collom, Chase Cohen, Noor Shoresh, Graeme Mounsey, Dylan Teaford, and Sophie Nelson.

None of these images were ours but they are because we have seen them. We held hands with Paul Simon and Rudy Giuliani. We fucked Carl Jung from behind. We are every celebrity ever born because they couldn't touch us. We all shared one pair of pants named responsibility. Samsara inside a busted open train car. Aerial footage of an ego death. We drunk-drove ourselves around town. We rang a large bell that can't be unrung. We make art because everyone else does.

The heart of the show is "The Pile," a large mixed-media sculpture that fluctuates between awe and ennui in the inescapable shadow of a 30-mile-tall mountain of images. This piece and this show attempt to crystalize the experience of growing up on the internet, completely inundated with terror, beauty and information from the very moment we opened our eyes. Car crashes, guns, angels, memories, totems, sex, cameras, and language collide in the pursuit of this communication. Ideas follow feelings and feelings come from what we see, and no humans in history have seen as much as we do today.