Tanya Leighton

Tanya Leighton is pleased to announce Sam Anderson’s Lunch Hour, featuring new sculptures by the New York-based artist. By employing permutations of stock characters, Anderson’s exhibition explores narratives of desire, particularly in their unrequited form. The title ‘Lunch Hour’ is an explicit reference to such a story, a 1960’s kitchen-sink film by the same title. It follows a male mid-level executive’s ill-fated attempts to consummate an adulterous, workplace romance with his female subordinate, with whom he can never find a moment alone because his only time away from family and coworkers is the lunch hour. Anderson’s exhibition is full of subtle references to figures frustrated by desire, such as Penelope the cat from ‘Pepé Le Pew’ or the Big O from Shel Silverstein’s widely influential ‘The Missing Piece’.