Elliott Hundley: Book of Sand / Regen Projects
Elliott Hundley
Book of Sand
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
September 16–October 24, 2026
Marking the artist’s seventh solo exhibition with the gallery, the presentation furthers Hundley’s rich, multifaceted approach to materiality through an expanded lens of metacognition and philosophically grounded play. Whereas previous exhibitions have drawn from the subject matter and esprit of Euripidean tragedies, Rilke’s sonnets, and plays by Artaud and Genet, Book of Sand focuses on Hundley’s own exuberant internal universe.
With each work in the show, Hundley follows a path of automatism: compiling paint, paper cut-outs, string, encaustic, and other found materials without a predetermined narrative or aim. Hundley’s characteristic use of pins and accumulation as both method and content surfaces throughout the exhibition as an important symbol for the conscious and unconscious act of becoming. “The pin, collecting, assembling, is simultaneously the desire to remember, to track, to understand—and also to lose track, to lose oneself in the fantasy of one’s objects of desire, one’s attachments, becoming plural, multitudinous, and overwhelmingly so. A self forgotten in its manifold projections, collections, memories, and possibilities.” (Jonathan Alexander, Los Angeles Review of Books, 2023)
The exhibition engages Jungian sandplay therapy, a method which enables unconscious elements of the psyche to become visible and processed by playing with miniature figurines in a tray of sand. Often used for children and adults who struggle with trauma, the sand tray provides another modality for expressing intense emotions beyond language. Certain paintings in the presentation are bordered by a pronounced frame echoing the boundary of a sand tray, while the gallery space becomes a psychic arena in which the artworks are arranged as figurines.
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