NEW YORK, NY.- Thierry Goldberg Projects presents Here We Aren’t So Quickly, a three-person exhibition with paintings by Guy Ben-Ari, Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline, and Hiroyuki Nakamura. The title of the show, taken from a Jonathan Safran Foer story, points to questions of authenticity and subjectivity explored in the work of all three artists. Whether through figuration or abstraction, each artist plays with the limits of representation in an attempt to knock up against something more real, and perhaps more permanent. While the work of Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline often depicts figurative forms, many of his subjects seem dislocated or pulled apart by abstraction. While something of the recognizable remains, be it hands, hair, or shoes, the figure is never complete, and seems to be disintegrating into drapery,