Create! Magazine is thrilled to share the announcement of Natural Selection, a solo exhibition by Florida-based painter Corey K. Lamb. Returning for his third solo exhibition with the Hashimoto Contemporary, Lamb's newest work blends sensuality, humor and the macabre with Darwinian themes of biology and human experience, told in the artist's signature chromatic style.

The artist's highly stylized figures and vivid palette pull you into a joyful, surreal world--allowing us to relish in its strange beauty. You don't want to miss this exceptional show, opening this Friday!

On view at Hashimoto Contemporary April 9th, 2022 - April 30th, 2022
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Image Description: A painting by Corey K. Lamb of a woman with violet/pink skin, yellow hair, and one eye. She wears a blue blouse while holding up a glass.
Corey K. Lamb,  Scarcity, 2022

Distilling the human figure into faceless archetypal characters, Lamb creates a fictive landscape where he examines the role of humanism within adaptation and survival in an ever shifting, modern world. Each painting invites the viewer to enter Lamb's idyllic, yet foreboding scenes and to cast themselves as characters within.

The artists writes of the new work, “The narratives on display sit at a tangential point between theories concerning evolution and the lived human experiences that poignantly follow suit.The situations presented deal with competition, adaptation, inheritance, and abundance, all Darwinian staples. However, underneath the image, there lies a call for the viewer to engage with and participate in a deeper sense of wonder with their state of existence, as the narratives seek to tie the familiar with an all-encompassing process that every living organism is subject to from conception.”

All images courtesy of Hashimoto Contemporary.

Image Description: A painting by Corey K. Lamb of a person kneeling on the ground with violet butterflies all around. The person holds a pink flower. More pink flowers surround the person on the ground. The sky is bright green.
Corey K. Lamb,  Natural Selection, 2022
Image Description: A painting by Corey K. Lamb of a naked person with pink skin reaching down to touch white flowers. The flowers are in a vase that looks like an upside down human head.
Corey K. Lamb,  Innate Attributes, 2022
Image Description: A painting by Corey K. Lamb of a nude woman with pink skin and yellow hair. She is surrounded by lack butterflies and stands in front of a white gate.
Corey K. Lamb, Pheromones, 2022.
Image Description: A painting by Corey K. Lamb of a woman and a man being intimate. The man's head is detached from his body and the woman holds it.
Corey K. Lamb, Recursive, 2022