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I have two works Heritage XIV, 2026 and Club Chair IV, 2026 on view at David Kordansky Gallery in LA as apart of an exhibition dedicated to Tom of Finland. Tom’s Stretch will up until August 22nd. It’s a beyond beautiful installation and a complete honor to be included.

I cannot thank both Kordansky and Tom of Finland Foundation enough for the invitation and experience. I’ve had the privilege to see the exhibition and foundation firsthand. It has been life changing to be shown with such extraordinary talent.

Tom’s Stretch (On view until August 22nd)
David Kordansky Gallery
5130 W Edgewood Pl.
Los Angeles CA 90019

@davidkordanskygallery
@tomoffinlandfoundation

Club Chair IV, 2026
Herman Miller Eames chair, Kaleita Physique sleeveless T-shirt, and Ammo bowling ball
39 1/4 x 27 3/4 x 31 1/4 inches

Heritage XIV, 2026
German wool blanket, Miata spare tire with vinyl leather cover, Tom of Finland Bootleg Magazine, Calvin Klein discounted underwear in box, Plexiglas cases, and hardware, in steel artist’s frame
39 7/8 x 73 3/4 x 7 inches taken in David Kordansky Gallery by @nickhoecker

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Mi casa es su casa with @billaltaright by @nickhoecker

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4 months ago

This is the last week and my show Nature closes this upcoming Saturday April 18th. I’ll be doing a walkthrough at 12pm then to send off what has been an exhilarating experience. I wanna thank the many collaborators who helped this exhibition go so far - cannot be more grateful for all the talent, vision, and friendship. Hope to see you all there!

Nature
Sebastian Gladstone New York
36 White Street
New York, NY 10013
@sebastiangladstone taken in Sebastian Gladstone New York by @nickhoecker

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An American Standard urinal, the exact model from the artist’s Catholic school, a site marked by repeated bullying and humiliation; a rusty surfboard from his childhood, left in storage after a cruel outing at age eleven made him unwelcome among his peers; and rare wheels from his father’s British racing car, a Triumph TR6, congeal into a dense psychological landscape. For all their specificity, Hoecker presents them as only part of the story. Biography is paired with the byproducts of a rich interior life, shaped by artists and subcultural figures including Joseph Beuys, Jean Genet, Jack Pierson, Robert Rauschenberg, and Henry Rollins. In some works, those influences appear directly in the form of photographic monographs, including Good Bye America by Volker Corell, Teenage Lust by Larry Clark, and Beautiful Men by Crawford Barton, presented in custom plexiglass enclosures.

Nick Hoecker
Heritage XII, 2025
German Wool Blanket, American Standard Urinal, Weapon Bowling Ball, Hardware, Steel Artist Frame
50” H x 68” W x 14” D
50.5” H x 68.5” W x 14” D (Framed) taken in Sebastian Gladstone New York by @nickhoecker

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The exhibition opens with “Poser,” an image from an ongoing series of found photographs sourced through online estate sales and reprinted at a uniform scale and frame. The title is literal and sly. The subjects pose, and so does Hoecker, who enters photography conceptually rather than by taking the picture himself. Across the larger series, standardized framing pulls intimate images of gay desire into the fiction of a single hand, a serial structure only partly visible in the lone work shown here. Still, “Poser” functions as a thesis, setting the terms of the exhibition from the start: appropriation and projection, image and object, “Photography opens a portal for fantasy,” Hoecker says, “and sculpture brings the body back to the ground.”

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Nature also introduces a suite of lichen-based tarp works titled “Freshman,” “Sophomore,” Junior,” and “Senior,” a naming structure that maps organic growth onto the four-year arc of high school. Cut from the same weathered tarpaulin and marked by exposure and corrosion, these works carry the exhibition’s concerns into a quieter register. If Heritage traces the conflict between inherited and imagined selves, this group points toward another form of becoming, less driven by punishment and performance than by time, contact, and accumulation. “My hand is in the cropping and the stretching,” Hoecker says, “but the composition was made by nature.” Framed and stabilized by the artist, they extend Poser’s authorship game while offering a softer image of identity: a process built through exposure, time, environment, and accumulation.

-Michael Bullock
@michaeljbullock taken in Sebastian Gladstone Gallery by @nickhoecker

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“Hoecker returns to the codes and penalties that structured his early life, beginning with his father, who, in the artist’s account, “dismissed homosexuality.” The series began with a Mazda Miata, which he bought for himself while knowing his father derided the model as a “hairdresser car.” Between them, sexuality remains unspoken, displaced onto the coded vocabulary of automobiles.”

-Michael Bullock

Nick Hoecker
Hubris I, 2025
Miata Steel Bumper Support, ‘We’ve got Ballz’ shirt, Weapon Bowling Ball, Black Steel Cock Ring, Hardware
26” H x 43” W x 6” D
#nickhoecker taken in Sebastian Gladstone New York by @nickhoecker

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Nick Hoecker at Sebastian Gladstone, New York
“Nature”
March 6 – April 18, 2026
Photos: images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Sebastian Gladstone, Los Angeles/New York
@sebastiangladstone @nickhoecker taken in New York City, N.Y. by @nickhoecker

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At the center of Nature is an extension of the Heritage series, a body of work that translates the punishments and seductions of masculinity into a visual language shaped by repression, attraction, and emotional pressure. Here, Hoecker returns to the codes and penalties that structured his early life, beginning with his father, who, in the artist’s account, “dismissed homosexuality.” The series began with a Mazda Miata, which he bought for himself while knowing his father derided the model as a “hairdresser car.” Between them, sexuality remains unspoken, displaced onto the coded vocabulary of automobiles.

-Michael Bullock

Nick Hoecker
Heritage XI, 2025
Polo Ralph Lauren Towel, Alfred Stieglitz Spiritual America Page Book, Plexiglass Case, Hardware, Steel Artist Frame
59” H x 29” W x 5” D
59.5” H x 29.5” W x 5” D (Framed) taken in Sebastian Gladstone New York by @nickhoecker

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A huge thank you to everyone who came out last night to see Nature! The exhibition is on view in New York through April 18th.

“An American Standard urinal, the exact model from the artist’s Catholic school, a site marked by repeated bullying and humiliation; a rusty surfboard from his childhood, left in storage after a cruel outing at age eleven made him unwelcome among his peers; and rare wheels from his father’s British racing car, a Triumph TR6, congeal into a dense psychological landscape. For all their specificity, Hoecker presents them as only part of the story. Biography is paired with the byproducts of a rich interior life, shaped by artists and subcultural figures including Joseph Beuys, Jean Genet, Jack Pierson, Robert Rauschenberg, and Henry Rollins. In some works, those influences appear directly in the form of photographic monographs, including Good Bye America by Volker Corell, Teenage Lust by Larry Clark, and Beautiful Men by Crawford Barton, presented in custom plexiglass enclosures.”

-Michael Bullock
@michaeljbullock

Nick Hoecker
Hubris II, 2026
Formica Table, Rusty Surfboard, Teenage Lust by Larry Clark Book (Signed), Plexiglass Case, Hardware
72” H x 30” W x 12” D taken in Sebastian Gladstone New York by @nickhoecker

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Please join us tonight in New York for the opening of Nick Hoecker “Nature” from 6-8PM. taken in Sebastian Gladstone New York by @nickhoecker

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When nature calls with @sicknethi

At my show that opens tonight @sebastiangladstone by @nickhoecker

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Sebastian Gladstone Gallery is pleased to present Nature, an exhibition by Nick Hoecker, opening March 6, 2026. The show follows Last Cool Hive (2024), Hoecker’s first solo exhibition, presented at the gallery’s Los Angeles location. Moving between found photography and engineered wall assemblages, Hoecker, an interdisciplinary artist who describes himself primarily as a sculptor, has developed a practice in which recontextualized images and repurposed domestic and automotive fragments are configured into works that feel both exacting and emotionally exposed. In Nature, that language expands to include newly introduced functional furniture.

-Michael Bullock

Nick Hoecker
Heritage IX, 2025
German Wool Blanket, Tire, Goodbye America by Volker Corell Book, Plexiglass Case, Hardware, Steel Artist Frame
48.5” H x 68.5” W x 9.5” D
#nickhoecker taken in Sebastian Gladstone New York by @nickhoecker

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