Julian Hoeber: Binocular Rivalry @ Jessica Silverman

Jessica Silverman is pleased to present “Binocular Rivalry,” Julian Hoeber’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, on view June 5 through July 11, 2026. The exhibition features new paintings, a wall-mounted sculpture, and a new video work presented with 3D glasses. The show is informed by the artist’s ongoing engagement with stereoscopic vision, or the brain’s process of registering a single image from the inputs of each eye. In an increasingly technological and image-saturated world, Hoeber’s work reminds us of the complexity of visual perception. This exhibition highlights the viewer’s sense of vision as an active operation instead of a passive act.

The paintings in the exhibition are inspired by the stereoscope, a device invented in the 19th-century that enabled seeing a 3D image from two distinct 2D images. The exhibition title references a visual phenomenon, or conflict, that occurs when each eye is presented with different images, and the brain alternates between them, or perceives a fragmented mashup of both. Depicting everyday surroundings as two juxtaposed images, Hoeber’s paintings invite us, in his words, to “see yourself seeing.”