Five Times TwoMy Love of Everlasting Things,  Mae Noland

20th January  2024 — 10th March 2024


Five Times Two is pleased to present My Love of Everlasting Things, a solo exhibition of 10 works by Mae Noland. An opening reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, January 20th from 12 until 4 pm. The exhibition will remain open until March 8th.


Mae Noland is an artist, equally a collector, and even more so an alchemist. Noland blows the dust off of forgotten objects, values, and ontologies to create dynamic visual relationships that summon viewers to the wall.


The title of Noland’s show, My Love of Everlasting Things, is drawn directly from Yukio Mishima’s 1949 novel Confessions of a Mask. The show’s title makes plain Noland’s cyclical understanding of energy. She directly opposes modern allegiance to single-use lifespans and the finality of death. Instead, Noland’s work familiarizes the viewer with valuing the tarnished and making use of the used-up. Repurposing found things, in the title’s case words, imbues the everlasting with the dignity that it deserves.


Working with images, both sourced on the interwebs and captured by the artist’s hand, allows Noland to evoke and mobilize things that are no longer physically present. Noland utilizes image-based chemistry to mix and match worlds, creating new poetics. While shepherding semi-permeable realities into shape is a freeing process, it also removes contexts by jaggedly rehoming things. Noland describes this as a mystical doubling, entrapment within oneself, an echo chamber. Containment, originality, and formulas knot together and focus in on what feels simultaneously new, old, and present. Juggling these timelines and lifetimes results in ghostly and chimeric encounters.


Noland grew up in a place with horse X-ing signs and steeds sprinkled within fenced lawns on main roads. Often in her work, animals act as a lifeline. They become our hopeful guides to unknown mystical scenes. Beautiful beasts with huge glittering eyes hold some kind of secret knowledge. Noland explains animals are just like us, though not demented by tools. Speaking without words. 


Every piece feels like magic. Every intersection ushers a surprise. Things we once thought nothing of are turned into occasions of curiosity. In a way, we’ve been tricked. Noland entangles absurdity and beauty to transform the unseen into something you need to see. Somewhere you’d like to spend hours.


Mae Noland (b. 2001) is an artist living and working in Los Angeles. Noland received her BA from UCLA. She has presented work at UCLA’s Little Gallery (2023) and Rejected (2021). Her piece Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Harry Styles will be included in Hyperobject at Fellows of Contemporary Art (FOCA) this June.




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