Kira Scerbin at King’s Leap

Artist: Kira Scerbin

Exhibition title: Corp.

Venue: King’s Leap, New York, US

Date: April 8 – May 15, 2022

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and King’s Leap, New York

Here we go now. A group of us suckling in the golden glow of the Father’s full breasts. Suckling Corp. Fostering ingenuity, special brain, meat body, and a girl who changed the world. Luck be beautiful, rules be kind. Welcome thee to body time. We are CEO of skin mods basking in the comfort of a rotting corpse. To what do we owe the pleasure of docking into our fresh body lot. Experiencing waves of air vibrating against us like a metallic clock.

Masks of machine and organism, the figures are lucid and direct. Odors of a city, sunned skin, and an audible scent of a feral footing. Concepts of a desperate love triangle between a hovering self, primal desire, and a body as pure raw material; blue lit and ready for market.

Kira Scerbin (b. 1991) is a Cleveland-born artist based in Chicago. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014. Selected solo and two-person exhibitions include Chapter NY (New York, NY), Final Hot Desert (White Pocket, AZ), Et Al (San Francisco, CA), Springsteen Gallery (Baltimore, MA), Catbox Contemporary (Queens, NY), Prairie (Chicago, IL), and King’s Leap (New York, NY). She has been included in group exhibitions at Harkawik (New York, NY), Interstate Projects (Brooklyn, NY), In Lieu, (Los Angeles, CA), New Works & Horses Two, (Chicago, IL), Phil Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), and Species, (Atlanta, GA).

Kira Scerbin, Corp., 2022, exhibition view, King’s Leap, New York

Kira Scerbin, Corp., 2022, exhibition view, King’s Leap, New York

Kira Scerbin, Corp., 2022, exhibition view, King’s Leap, New York

Kira Scerbin, New Cicada, 2022, oil on canvas, artist metal frame, 34½ x 24¼ inches, 87.6 x 61.6 cm

Kira Scerbin, New Cicada, 2022, oil on canvas, artist metal frame, 34½ x 24¼ inches, 87.6 x 61.6 cm

Kira Scerbin, New Cicada, 2022, oil on canvas, artist metal frame, 34½ x 24¼ inches, 87.6 x 61.6 cm

Kira Scerbin, Corp., 2022, exhibition view, King’s Leap, New York

Kira Scerbin, Dock, 2022, oil on linen, artist wooden frame, 36½ x 30½ inches, 92.7 x 77.5 cm

Kira Scerbin, Dock, 2022, oil on linen, artist wooden frame, 36½ x 30½ inches, 92.7 x 77.5 cm

Kira Scerbin, Dock, 2022, oil on linen, artist wooden frame, 36½ x 30½ inches, 92.7 x 77.5 cm

Kira Scerbin, Corp., 2022, exhibition view, King’s Leap, New York

Kira Scerbin, Corp., 2022, exhibition view, King’s Leap, New York

Kira Scerbin, Operating Model, 2022, oil on linen, artist wooden frame, 29½ x 31½ inches, 74.9 x 80 cm

Kira Scerbin, Operating Model, 2022, oil on linen, artist wooden frame, 29½ x 31½ inches, 74.9 x 80 cm

Kira Scerbin, Operating Model, 2022, oil on linen, artist wooden frame, 29½ x 31½ inches, 74.9 x 80 cm

Kira Scerbin, Biter in a Very Rich Hour, 2021, oil on canvas, artist wooden frame, 18 x 14½ inches, 45.7 x 36.8 cm

Kira Scerbin, Biter in a Very Rich Hour, 2021, oil on canvas, artist wooden frame, 18 x 14½ inches, 45.7 x 36.8 cm

Kira Scerbin, Biter in a Very Rich Hour, 2021, oil on canvas, artist wooden frame, 18 x 14½ inches, 45.7 x 36.8 cm

Kira Scerbin, Corp., 2022, exhibition view, King’s Leap, New York

Kira Scerbin, Bullet Pie, 2022, oil on canvas, artist wooden frame, 31½ x 25½ inches, 80 x 64.8 cm

Kira Scerbin, Bullet Pie, 2022, oil on canvas, artist wooden frame, 31½ x 25½ inches, 80 x 64.8 cm

Kira Scerbin, Bullet Pie, 2022, oil on canvas, artist wooden frame, 31½ x 25½ inches, 80 x 64.8 cm

Kira Scerbin, Corp., 2022, exhibition view, King’s Leap, New York

Kira Scerbin, Angel, 2022, oil on linen, artist metal frame, 32 x 18½ inches, 81.3 x 47 cm

Kira Scerbin, Angel, 2022, oil on linen, artist metal frame, 32 x 18½ inches, 81.3 x 47 cm

Kira Scerbin, Angel, 2022, oil on linen, artist metal frame, 32 x 18½ inches, 81.3 x 47 cm

Kira Scerbin, Corp., 2022, exhibition view, King’s Leap, New York

Kira Scerbin, Meat Reviver, 2022, oil on linen, artist metal frame, 30½ x 36½ inches, 77.5 x 92.7 cm

Kira Scerbin, Meat Reviver, 2022, oil on linen, artist metal frame, 30½ x 36½ inches, 77.5 x 92.7 cm

Kira Scerbin, Meat Reviver, 2022, oil on linen, artist metal frame, 30½ x 36½ inches, 77.5 x 92.7 cm