Aftertaste
Patrick McNabb
September 14 - October 13, 2024
Opening Reception | Saturday, September 14th | 6-9 PM
Patrick characterizes Aftertaste as the interest in a lingering experience lasting longer than an act. Exhaled vapor beading on hot skin, faint smells of sex, rust corroding on wet iron. For his second solo show at haul, he focuses on fleeting remnants. What does lingering look like? Patrick answers this question through a series of photographs that captures the moment left behind instead of the moment itself. Patrick’s gestures make that lingering feel palpable.
Intimacy remains a throughline in Patrick’s work; however, Aftertaste feels more invested in reflection and triggering memory. This approach is tender, dark, and not always visual – these photos can be smelled in the air or felt on your skin. The images themselves are also visually dark. Light rakes across surfaces and skin, illuminating every pore, fold, or bark, in black and white. There are also images of the acts themselves – but even these only provide glimpses, leaving us to imagine. Breath captured mid-air hangs adjacent to an imposing image of a body hung upside down bathed in light.
A haze is preserved in each photograph, leaving us to think about what happened before. These sexual vestiges emerge and at once evaporate, staying with us long after leaving.
As part of his residency leading up to the show, Patrick created four portfolios of uniquely printed photographs which expand this show beyond the walls of the gallery. If you are interested in purchasing a portfolio, please email hi@haul.gallery.
Patrick McNabb works with photography, and installation to reinterpret the role socio-sexual spaces have in developing and maintaining a cultural survival. Pat received an MFA from School of Visual Arts in 2016 and a BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2014. Exhibitions include Williams College Museum of Art, haul gallery, Brooklyn, Empty Circle Gallery, New York, 10b Projects, Jamaica Plain, Re: Art Show, New York, Soho Photography Gallery, New York, and Denker+Schneider gallery, Berlin. Pat has curated a number of group exhibitions for Re: Art Show in Brooklyn. Pat’s work has been published in AQNB, Musee Magazine, and Newspaper among others. Pat was the inaugural artist-in-residence at haul gallery, Brooklyn (2021) Tiny Birch Residency (2020) and received an Artist Grant for Vermont Studio Center (2019).