Founded in 2019 Asher Grey Gallery is a contemporary art initiative based in Joshua Tree and Venice Beach, California.
Founded in 2019 Asher Grey Gallery is a contemporary art initiative based in Joshua Tree and Venice Beach, California.
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SOFTLYMarch 16–April 15, 2026
Coco HallA sculptor and toy designer at heart, Hall works fluidly between sculpture, soft wall pieces, and playful object-making. A graduate of Bennington College in sculpture, she founded a cottage industry producing her own designs, including winged baseball caps and stuffed toys shaped like fruits and vegetables known as Vegimals. In her hands, toy design and fine art are not separate disciplines but interconnected expressions sharing the same conceptual DNA.
Hall’s practice consistently intertwines with her environmental and animal rights activism.
“I believe my job as an artist is to reflect what I see,” Hall says. Humor, for her, is not decoration but strategy. It opens the mind, allowing difficult truths to surface gently. The softness of the materials becomes both aesthetic and conceptual: disarming, approachable, and quietly subversive.
The exhibition title, “SOFTLY,” speaks not only to materiality but to method. Hall’s work suggests that transformation need not arrive with force. Echoing Leonard Cohen’s words, “There is a crack in everything, That’s how the light gets in,” her sculptures and wall works hold space for contradiction—tenderness and critique, delight and discomfort—revealing light through the seams.
2021
Denim, faux fur
55 × 36 × 3 in
2019
Fleece, zipper, polyfill
46 × 35 × 4 in
2024
Fleece,faux fur
9 × 12 in
2025
Fleece, cotton, faux fur, zipperers, polyfill
72 × 46 × 2 in
2015
Fleece, polyfill
63 × 63 × 2 in
2017
Papier-mache, wire, paint, faux fur.
16 × 20 × 6 in
2017
Papier-mache, paint, faux fur
12 x 25 x 2 in
Fat Collection
2018
Velvet, polyfill
42 x 32 x 2 in
2018
Velvet, polyfill
42 x 32 x 2 in
2024
Fleece, faux fur
17 × 22 in
2024
Fleece, faux fur
9 × 12 in
2017
Fleece, cotton, faux fur, zipperers, polyfill
51 × 48 × 6 in
About the Artist
Coco Hall
I am a sculptor and toy designer at heart although I do some painting and wall hangings.
Joshua Tree-based artist Coco Hall, a Bennington College graduate in sculpture, founded a cottage industry producing her designs for winged baseball caps and stuffed toys shaped like fruits and vegetables called Vegimals. Her toy design and fine art consistently intertwine with her environmental and animal rights activism. The three creative practices share conceptual DNA, and as a consequence of the soft materials she uses, her work has a toy-like appeal, opening viewers to the innate humor our species enjoys.
I believe my job as an artist is to reflect what I see so I gather images from our culture and ideas from the isms that concern me such as feminism, consumerism, environmentalism, etc. The main current is the wonderful/horrible of our world and I like showing this with humor because humor opens the mind and can therefore function in the way Leonard Cohen was talking about when he wrote, “There is a crack in everything, That's how the light gets in.”