Join exhibiting artists Jeffrey Stuker and Patricia Treib in conversation around the themes in the current Clifford Gallery exhibition HOLES.Jeffrey Stuker’s intricately rendered films and still imagery examine the relationship between synthetic and organic, engaging and considering mimicry as a metaphor for how organisms relate to their environments. He produces extremely accurate computer-generated imagery that he imbues with historical, scientific or industrial references to create touchpoints between the subjects the works depict and the technology used to create them.Stuker lives and works in Los Angeles and is represented by Ben Hunter, London and Ehrlich Steinberg, Los Angeles. Recent exhibitions include Full Haus: The Seeld Library (storefront: MoCA, Los Angeles, 2018); Made in LA: A version (Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2020); The International Biennial of Contemporary Photography (MOMuS, Thessaloniki Greece, 2021); Objects of Desire (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2022); Next Year in Monte Carlo (Ben Hunter, London, 2023); Feelings out of Season (The Fulcrum Press, Los Angeles, 2023); Pacific Standard Time (Getty Museum, Los Angeles and the University of California, San Diego, 2024); and Mantis Te Vidit (STUDIOLI La Ripa, Rome, 2024).Patricia Treib's paintings are composed around sensuous details, absences, and shifts in perspective. Despite their broad, sweeping gestures, the paintings can be seen as attentive meditations. Gleaned from sources that hold personal significance, Treib focuses on the space between forms, making in-betweenness a primary motif. Her paintings disclose these interspaces by transforming ephemeral non-things into iconic presences, whose highly pigmented color correspondences radiate an inner luminosity. Treib limits the time of making – or performing – each painting to a single day. Partially concealed behind this decisive act are the innumerable rehearsals and revisions that lead up to the painting, both in the evolution of a motif over several years, developed through myriad works on paper, and in the removals, adjustments, and erasures that take place on the surface of the canvas itself. Ripe, suspended forms nestle among accentuated flourishes, suggesting linguistic units or punctuation, and evoke medieval illuminations and 18th century Swedish Kurbits painting.Treib lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2020), an Artadia Award (2017), and was shortlisted for the Jean-Francois Prat Prize (2018) and has participated in residencies at ARCH, Athens (2021); the American Academy in Rome (2017), the Dora Maar House (2014) and MacDowell (2013). Recent solo exhibitions include Sinuations, Bureau, New York (2025); Icon Arms, ARCH, Athens, Greece (2024); Enfold, Kate MacGarry, London (2024); Undulations, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm (2023); Oscillations, Galerie Nordenhake, Mexico City, Mexico (2022), Variations, F, Houston, TX (2021); and Sleeve Variations, Overduin & Co., Los Angeles, CA (2021). Recent group exhibitions include Thresholds, curated by Nichole Caruso, Wolford House, Los Angeles, CA (2024), Of Flesh and Air, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid (2024); Friends in a Field: Conversations with Raoul De Keyser, Mu.ZEE, Ostend, Belgium (2022). Treib received an MFA from Columbia University and a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been written about in ArtForum, The New Yorker, Art in America, The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, and Bomb Magazine. Treib's first monograph was published in 2020 and features an essay by Joanna Fiduccia and an interview with poet and novelist Ben Lerner.