The work on view is inspired by a residency with the gallery in Venice and weaves characteristically expansive lines of enquiry around themes of masquerade and carnival. Captured at various thresholds – between youth and adulthood, innocence and experience, public and private realms the figures in Hernan Bas’ works are charged with potential.

Hernan Bas, born in Miami, Florida in 1978, lives and works in Detroit, Michigan and Miami. Solo exhibitions of his work have been presented at institutions including CAC Málaga, Spain; Kunstverein Hannover, Germany; the Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, USA. His work has also been shown as part of significant exhibitions at the Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; the Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA; Busan Biennale, Korea; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany; the Whitney Biennial; and the Venice Biennale as part of The Collectors, conceived by Elmgreen & Dragset for the Nordic and Danish Pavilions in 2009. Works by the artist are included in the collections of MoMA; the Whitney; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; the Detroit Institute of Arts; the Hirshhorn; MOCA Los Angeles; SFMoMA; MFA Houston; the Rubell Family Collection and Saatchi Collection, London, among others.