Hot Water Cool Art 1st Annual Exhibition – The Journey
Curated by Lulu Jiang & Christopher “Ender” Coryat
Join us as we celebrate the one-year anniversary of Hot Water Cool Art with our first annual exhibition. Featuring artists we've interviewed alongside open-call participants.
Explore a curated showcase of 26 emerging and established artists spanning painting, sculpture, mixed media, digital art, photography, and more.
Hot Water Cool Art is a community for all art lovers. Our mission is to make the art worldmore accessible and foster transparency through engaging artist interviews. We believe,
“Nobody talks about art better than the artists themselves.”
Curatorial Statement
This exhibition didn't begin with a concept, it began with a revelation. Standing before a single work, I was transfixed not by spectacle but by honesty. Layers of translucent blues and greens vibrated beneath a sheet of plexiglass, the exposed stretcher bars no longer hidden but integral to the work's meaning. It whispered: I am showing you everything, my depth, my structure, my vulnerability. This was not merely transparency as aesthetic choice, but as profound declaration.
This moment crystallized something essential about "The Journey" we've gathered to explore. Not as movement from here to there, but as the courage to be seen completely. The works we’ve assembled navigate this delicate terrain. Some turn inward through memory and personal myth; others stretch across geography and time. What binds them is a quiet rigor, a commitment to revealing what typically remains concealed: process, structure, history, pulse. They engage in the ongoing negotiation between protection and exposure, between surface and depth.
These artists aren't illustrating journeys, they're inviting us into their negotiations with visibility itself. What does it mean to become legible to others while preserving complexity? What does transparency cost, and what does it offer? The exposed stretcher, the visible brushstroke, the unresolved edge, these aren't imperfections but truthful acknowledgments that becoming whole requires showing all parts of oneself.
This exhibition resists tidy narratives. It offers no neat arc with beginning, middle, and end. Instead, it creates a field of resonance where visibility becomes its own form of movement. The journey presented is not toward a destination but toward depth—toward the courage to be seen completely, with all layers intact.
True movement happens when we allow ourselves to be witnessed in our entirety. This exhibition, The Journey: not a linear path, but a revelation inward.
-Christopher Ender Coryat
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