When: November 7th through December 7th
Opening: Friday November 7th, 6 to 9PM
Where:
The Space Between Gallery
7 Columbus Avenue, SF
Artists:
Chris Farris, Walter Morton and Josef Szuecs (SOOCH)
Media:
Paintings, drawings, video, dioramas and what-have-you.
About:
LO QUALITY (SORRY)
What is quality anymore?
You can't tell photographs from AI hallucinations. Algorithms decide what you see, optimized for engagement, not value. Technical skill has been democratized into irrelevance. The canon is dead. We've been flattened into a comfortable, consumable middle ground where nobody knows what "good" means anymore.
LO QUALITY (SORRY) is three artists—well, two and a half—responding to this collapse with the only reasonable approach: making art that refuses to take itself seriously in a world that has lost the ability to take anything seriously.
Joe Szuecs brings laser-cut precision to utterly absurd concepts—non-operational machines invoking robotics and myth. Meticulous construction, pointless function. It's optimization in service of nothing, mirroring our culture's obsession with efficiency that solves nothing.
Walt Morton follows the path of Kippenberger, Tuymans, and Oehlen—painters who understood that painting could interrogate rather than beautify. Trained by Mike Kelley, Alexis Smith, and John Baldessari in Los Angeles, Morton creates paintings where classical technique collides with commercial culture. Beauty commodified, commerce elevated, until you can't tell which corrupts which. Both do.
Chris Farris, our half-artist, offers simple line drawings with minimal effort—which is the entire point. In a world demanding constant content production, he presents the radical act of not really trying. Less isn't more; less is just less. And maybe that's revolutionary.
This isn't about bad art. It's about the collapse of shared standards for measuring art. It's punk, pop, provocation—and an invitation to reconsider what "quality" even means in 2025.
Come see what happens when you stop apologizing for not meeting standards that no longer exist.
(Sorry not sorry.)
LO QUALITY (SORRY)
What is quality anymore?
You can't tell photographs from AI hallucinations. Algorithms decide what you see, optimized for engagement, not value. Technical skill has been democratized into irrelevance. The canon is dead. We've been flattened into a comfortable, consumable middle ground where nobody knows what "good" means anymore.
LO QUALITY (SORRY) is three artists—well, two and a half—responding to this collapse with the only reasonable approach: making art that refuses to take itself seriously in a world that has lost the ability to take anything seriously.
Joe Szuecs brings laser-cut precision to utterly absurd concepts—non-operational machines invoking robotics and myth. Meticulous construction, pointless function. It's optimization in service of nothing, mirroring our culture's obsession with efficiency that solves nothing.
Walt Morton follows the path of Kippenberger, Tuymans, and Oehlen—painters who understood that painting could interrogate rather than beautify. Trained by Mike Kelley, Alexis Smith, and John Baldessari in Los Angeles, Morton creates paintings where classical technique collides with commercial culture. Beauty commodified, commerce elevated, until you can't tell which corrupts which. Both do.
Chris Farris, our half-artist, offers simple line drawings with minimal effort—which is the entire point. In a world demanding constant content production, he presents the radical act of not really trying. Less isn't more; less is just less. And maybe that's revolutionary.
This isn't about bad art. It's about the collapse of shared standards for measuring art. It's punk, pop, provocation—and an invitation to reconsider what "quality" even means in 2025.
Come see what happens when you stop apologizing for not meeting standards that no longer exist.
(Sorry not sorry.)