Certain elements of our physical composition identify us as part of a group that shares lived experiences. The shapes of our various appendages passed down through billions of years of evolution place us in a species with over 8 billion other individuals that comprise the human species. In his project room show At Arm’s Length at Hashimoto Contemporary Los Angeles, painter Gabe Langholtz highlights a person’s distinguishable characteristics as they navigate common threads of the human condition, such as creativity, power, work, love, and death. Punctuated by still life scenes and memento mori, this new collection of paintings focuses on the singular arm in various actions as a motif, revealing that people may share common traits and experiences, but the…