KP Projects is proud to present our group exhibition, Slice of Summer: Spheres of Influence. Spheres of Influence brings together a multigenerational group of artists whose practices are in active dialogue with aesthetic, cultural, and conceptual precedents. The exhibition frames influence not as a linear transfer of style or ideology, but as a dynamic field of interaction in which creative identities are formed, challenged, and expanded.

This show foregrounds the ways in which artists position themselves within and against a variety of inherited vocabularies: from canonical art movements and avant-garde manifestos to popular culture, subcultural aesthetics, and ancestral knowledge. The works
on view reflect complex relationships with sources of influence—at times reverent, at times revisionist—and reveal how these interactions serve as catalysts for innovation.

Many of the artists here draw inspiration from a polyphony of references, collapsing distinctions between “high” and “low,” tradition and experimentation. Others use influence as a material in itself, appropriating, sampling, and recontextualizing elements from visual culture to make visible the constructed nature of identity, history, and authorship. Across media, their practices interrogate the very notion of originality, proposing instead a model of art-making as an evolving conversation across time and space. By mapping the myriad ways influence operates—intellectually, intuitively, and emotionally—Spheres of Influence invites viewers to consider the interdependence of creativity. It is in this porous exchange between artists, movements, and moments that the
most resonant and transformative work often emerges.