Joshua Petker: Hyacinth Canyon
Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
September 13 – November 1, 2025
Anat Ebgi is pleased to present new paintings by Los Angeles artist Joshua Petker. The exhibition, entitled Hyacinth Canyon, is the artists’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, September 13, 6-8 pm.
Hyacinth Canyon names both myth and place. Taking inspiration from the Greek story of beauty, rivalry, and metamorphosis, Petker pairs it with a fanciful California canyon where time folds on itself. The convergence of history and imagination unites Petker’s practice, which treats painting as a site of overlapping realities. Across large and medium scale canvases, layered and interlocking figures share a frame, yet retain a charged, separate relationship to each other. Ghostlike impressions, statuesque nudes, and wandering outlines of beasts and smiles seem at once animated and permanently fixed, arrested by a skin of paint. Here Petker treats the present tense as composite: histories, jokes, and devotions convene as a simultaneous multi-subjective reality.
