High Noon is pleased to present Theresa Hackett’s second exhibition with the gallery, Around the Bend. Hackett’s newest paintings are double-sided works on 72” x 48” aluminum panels suspended in mid-air 12” from the ground, creating paths and portals through the gallery space. Hackett’s language of abstraction favors unconscious association wherein the temporal world serves only as a jumping off point. She creates a continuous loop of problems and resolutions, pushing a symbiotic approach to image and material until her richly textured surfaces transcend both. There is as much joy in the work as there is tireless exploration, abstraction that serves as a kind of satire of reality. The constant tension of the work threatening to push itself into an identifiable space gives it its potency. Around the Bend is a place between.