Jack Shainman Gallery is honored to present Ghost Fires, an exhibition of new work by Hayv Kahraman, the artist's fifth solo presentation with the gallery. My own ghost fires began showing up in my paintings months before the fires in Los Angeles. Can the ghost fires be generative? The womb is furiously burning like the volcano in Hawaii and it will smolder even once the fires are extinguished. Parallel to this nascent world are the ghost fires that haunt me as I replay the few memories my mind has chosen to keep of the war, in my body, today, in LA.