"The Shape Of Now : Viridian Artists Group Show"
Chelsea, New York: The Viridian Artists gallery is pleased to present The Shape Of Now, an exhibition of Viridian Artists members Hiromi Aoki, Zoe Brown-Weissmann, Ellen Burnett, May DeViney, David Fitzgerald, Sue Fontaine, Denise Fulton, Kazuo Ishikawa, Kathleen King, Marco Lando, Ralph Miller, and Rick Mullin.
The present, in all its forms, keeps slipping through our hands as it passes before our eyes. A work of art in all of its curious investigations, at its core, presents what is now. Even as an exploration of the past or an invention of the future, these creations translate through the artist's eye and hand to become a captured glimpse of what changes so readily. As our minutes flow steadily away in all directions, what the artist puts forth is a testament of what we as humans experience and how our understanding of this experience moves with us in the river.
What is in the shape of now is what passes through the senses of the viewer. As this shape is explored in this exhibition the senses are exercised quite well. Being present in the gallery at the moment the viewer is exposed to a realism enlightened with warm bright colors, shadows and a vulnerability that produces an extraordinary awareness of what is human. There are landscapes that piece together vibrancy through impressionistic forms and dissociated objects, creating a place of here that cannot be denied. Pieces in abstraction of bent metal and wood or fabrics and mixed media illustrate unfolding truths yet to be named. While worlds that can only be imagined come to life in fantastic imagery with a new tenderness and verve, with an energy that places the observer, through the art object, completely in this moment.
In the flux that is our time on Earth it is the artist who renders the untouchable moment palatable for our grasp and perception. In comprehending what is there in life presented as what is here at the gallery we can better understand ourselves, the world, and a place in it, as what seems formless is given a shape, is given many shapes, for us now.
For further information please contact Christopher Heffernan, Acting Gallery Director at 212 414 4040 or viridianartistsinc@gmail.com or view the gallery website: www.viridianartists.com or instagram @viridian artists
The present, in all its forms, keeps slipping through our hands as it passes before our eyes. A work of art in all of its curious investigations, at its core, presents what is now. Even as an exploration of the past or an invention of the future, these creations translate through the artist's eye and hand to become a captured glimpse of what changes so readily. As our minutes flow steadily away in all directions, what the artist puts forth is a testament of what we as humans experience and how our understanding of this experience moves with us in the river.
What is in the shape of now is what passes through the senses of the viewer. As this shape is explored in this exhibition the senses are exercised quite well. Being present in the gallery at the moment the viewer is exposed to a realism enlightened with warm bright colors, shadows and a vulnerability that produces an extraordinary awareness of what is human. There are landscapes that piece together vibrancy through impressionistic forms and dissociated objects, creating a place of here that cannot be denied. Pieces in abstraction of bent metal and wood or fabrics and mixed media illustrate unfolding truths yet to be named. While worlds that can only be imagined come to life in fantastic imagery with a new tenderness and verve, with an energy that places the observer, through the art object, completely in this moment.
In the flux that is our time on Earth it is the artist who renders the untouchable moment palatable for our grasp and perception. In comprehending what is there in life presented as what is here at the gallery we can better understand ourselves, the world, and a place in it, as what seems formless is given a shape, is given many shapes, for us now.
For further information please contact Christopher Heffernan, Acting Gallery Director at 212 414 4040 or viridianartistsinc@gmail.com or view the gallery website: www.viridianartists.com or instagram @viridian artists
