Exhibition Dates: April 16 - May 14, 2022
Opening Exhibition: April 16, 2pm - 6pm
Gallery Hours: By Appointment Only
Embodiment asks artists to analyze how the elements of design (shape, color, space, form, line, value, and texture) transcend the sum of their parts in a cohesive composition. How do they rely upon and inform each other to bring a piece to life. The opening reception for Embodiment is on Saturday, April 16th, 2022 from 2-6pm and is free and open to the public.
The work ranges from abstract to hyper-realistic and varies dramatically stylistically, but is united in emoting a certain other-worldliness. Across the spectrum, these artworks succeed in making the incorporeal tangible. The works presented communicate very specific moods, emotions, or feelings through color, style, texture, and surrealist/fantastical elements. Each piece is an opportunity to investigate the how and why of connection through these shared emotions.
Viewers can expect to find an open-ended answer to the question of how color and form relate in these artists' paintings. In addition, a site-specific installation from Erin Zhao will take over the atrium of the gallery. Zhao's installation is a reflection upon different states of meditation and the ways in which the human form experiences them.
About the artists:
Amy Sol
Amy Sol's works depict dream-like scenes, inhabited with imaginary creatures and beings. Her paintings are recognized for their distinctly subdued palette and soft brushwork. A sense of calmness and contemplation is often expressed in the faces and gestures of her characters. Themes of introspection, kinship, and adoration of nature are often present in her work.
Bakpak Durden
Bakpak Durden, born and raised in Detroit, is a self-taught multi-hyphenate post disciplinary artist. Pulling from various figurative art techniques, Durden employs a wide range of mediums--oil and acrylic paint, graphite and fine art photography --to construct their hyperrealistic and conceptual works of art. Durden's artworks illuminate the complexity and precarity of human emotion and identity by meticulously examining their own.
In 2021, Durden completed a breathtaking mural for the inaugural BLKOUT Walls mural festival in Detroit and a vanitas style influenced mural in St Petersburg, FL for the SHINE mural festival. They were a contributor to the GUCCI VS. EVERYBODY campaign, in collaboration with the Vs Everybody brand and Gucci in conjunction with Gucci Changemakers at the start of 2021. They are a 2021 Gilda Award recipient along with the Playground Detroit 20/20 Emerging Artists Fellowship and the Modern Ancient Brown Foundation Grant awardee.
Bakpak is focused on continuing their work within their communities; highlighting black trans and queer visibility in addition to mental health, neurodiversity and disability advocacy/representation as a Detroiter in its robust art scene.
Carmen McNall
My work tells the stories of female figures of strength, focusing on those who work with their hands; keeping alive the artifacts of humanity. I find great power in the passing down of trades from generation to generation, commanding a presence and pride as craft-makers and workers of dying traditions. Incorporating patterns I find in nature, I reflect on the relationship of people and their environments as times change and we change.
Through my work, I try to recreate the emotional content of a time, place or face that I fear will be lost in the near future. I am interested in capturing the odd experiences of the human condition. The simple, quiet moments between large events. The impacting details that make up life that are easily forgotten.
Chad Hasegawa
"My style and technique is developed from how I would actually paint a wall. The paints I use, the layering process, the learning process... While painting walls you deal with elements of weather: rain, wind, dust, and all angles of direct sunlight. All these elements will influence how I paint my canvas... My approach to painting is not understanding that I'm painting on canvas; I paint on canvas with the understanding of painting on walls."
In Chad Hasegawa's current body of work, he molds his resourceful street art background with his fine art influences. Hasegawa's non objective paintings rely on forms and colors, as they relate to one another and create a single shape. Hasegawa takes his concerns for painting something that lasts outdoors, and applies the same techniques when approaching a canvas. He uses latex paint, and oversized brush strokes to ensure these paintings, like his murals, will surpass the test of time.
Although he was born and raised in Honolulu, HI, Chad Hasegawa became enthralled with graffiti and the art of the Mission School. In 2000, he moved to San Francisco and gained his BFA in advertising at the Academy of Art University. He worked for top agencies, including Venables Bell & Partners and Goodby Silverstein & Partners, before leaving advertising to concentrate on painting murals on the streets, and canvases for both commercial and non-profit gallery shows. He quickly gained recognition for his bold and colorful latex paint brush strokes that pushed the boundaries of public art.
Chiaozza
Adam Frezza & Terri Chiao are an American artist duo whose work explores play and craft across a range of media, including painted sculpture, installation, collage, photography, design, and public art. Also known as CHIAOZZA (rhymes with "wowza" or "yowza"), Adam and Terri have exhibited their collaborative work in solo exhibitions in New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles, in numerous group shows around the US, and in a variety of art and design venues internationally. The studio was founded in 2011 and is based in New York City.
Erin Zhao
Haoyun Erin Zhao is a multidisciplinary artist based in San Francisco, California, working in printmaking, painting, sculpture, and installation. Growing up in Southern China where ethnic art and cultures inspired Zhao's early interest in how hand-repetition involved creating intricate patterns and forms, she was motivated to develop a creative expression that unifies body and mind. The artist's relocation to the United States at the age of seventeen introduced her to a new set of cultures and influences. As her exposure to eastern and western influence grows and intersects, it led her interest to explore and investigate multicultural influences on human psychology, aesthetics, and activity. Rooted in her study of Eastern and Western Philosophy, Zhao's work explores the intangibility of perception through the physicality of her materials. Paying particular attention to the interaction of light, color, and form, Zhao uses transparency and abstraction to mimic the ethereal and elusive nature of human consciousness. Through her practice, the artist continues to experience and explore the connections between physical objects and non-physical mediums (e.g., light, emotion, consciousness, etc.)
Commissioned by IBM in 2020, Zhao created a mixed media installation that explores the relationship between art and blockchain technology to promote sustainability. She's the recipient of Facebook Open Arts/Artist in Residence, Edition/Basel Printmaking Residency (Basel, Switzerland), Kala Art Institute Artist in Residence (Berkeley, U.S.), Mission Gráfica Printmaking Residency (SF, U.S.), In Cahoots Residency (Petaluma, U.S.), Hearts in SF Project by Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital Foundation, Thousand-Island Lake Art Project (Zhejiang, China), etc. The artist's work has been published in various magazines and exhibited in museums, galleries, and art fairs at venues such as de Young Museum, Art Santa Fe Contemporary Art Fair, International Print Center New York, Galerie Kuchling Berlin, Root Division SF, Sanchez Art Center, Glass Rice Gallery, The Compound Gallery Oakland, etc. Her work is in the collections of Facebook, IBM, Kaiser Permanente, Boston Children's Hospital, Guizhou Minzu University (China), Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (NYC), Kala Art Institute, and numerous private collections.
Hanna Lee Joshi
Hanna Lee Joshi is a Korean-Canadian artist who's practice primarily involves depictions of the female form.
Her work currently explores the search for autonomy within and themes of individuality and how it relates to the universal identity.
"It is my way of coming to terms with being ok with taking up space; in society, in my day to day life. My pieces range from exploring a feeling of being contained within social constraints or self-created limitations to depicting the ceaseless chase for freedom. For me, it is a therapeutic reclaiming of how female bodies are depicted, little by little dismantling any internalized misogyny or any notion of how a woman should be or behave. It is a constant process where I am attempting to redefine how I see myself."
Helice Wen
Helice Wen is a Chinese-American artist. She was born and raised in Shen Zhen, China. She moved to San Francisco at age 14 where she currently lives and works.
Helice received a BA Illustration degree from Academy of Art University, San Francisco. After illustrated several children's books, Helice switched her focus to gallery work. Her work has shown in galleries both nationally and internationally.
Through her work, Helice uses figures and floral patterns to narrate the intimate, vulnerable, and sensibilities in everyday life.
Rubén Sanchez
Born and raised in Madrid (1979), adopted by Barcelona and Dubai in the past years and currently living in Badalona, Spain. Self-taught artist coming from the 90's subcultures of graffiti and skateboarding. Graphic design and illustration will later create a background that can be found in his works today: a strong graphic style that resonates through all of his projects.
Canvases, murals, ceramics, large public sculptures or even underwater installations. His works are limitless in possibilities and locations and they can be found all around the globe as a part of art festivals, commissions, humanitarian projects or international exhibitions but mostly as any kind of 'uncommissioned' works.
Vibrant color palettes, asymmetry and lack of perfect proportions are the ingredients of a game where you are challenged to depict Ruben's messages and concerns throughout characters and elements in fragile balance but with strong interactions. A personal style where visual balance, chain reactions and connectivity flirts with cubism and abstraction.
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Opening Exhibition: April 16, 2pm - 6pm
Gallery Hours: By Appointment Only
Embodiment asks artists to analyze how the elements of design (shape, color, space, form, line, value, and texture) transcend the sum of their parts in a cohesive composition. How do they rely upon and inform each other to bring a piece to life. The opening reception for Embodiment is on Saturday, April 16th, 2022 from 2-6pm and is free and open to the public.
The work ranges from abstract to hyper-realistic and varies dramatically stylistically, but is united in emoting a certain other-worldliness. Across the spectrum, these artworks succeed in making the incorporeal tangible. The works presented communicate very specific moods, emotions, or feelings through color, style, texture, and surrealist/fantastical elements. Each piece is an opportunity to investigate the how and why of connection through these shared emotions.
Viewers can expect to find an open-ended answer to the question of how color and form relate in these artists' paintings. In addition, a site-specific installation from Erin Zhao will take over the atrium of the gallery. Zhao's installation is a reflection upon different states of meditation and the ways in which the human form experiences them.
About the artists:
Amy Sol
Amy Sol's works depict dream-like scenes, inhabited with imaginary creatures and beings. Her paintings are recognized for their distinctly subdued palette and soft brushwork. A sense of calmness and contemplation is often expressed in the faces and gestures of her characters. Themes of introspection, kinship, and adoration of nature are often present in her work.
Bakpak Durden
Bakpak Durden, born and raised in Detroit, is a self-taught multi-hyphenate post disciplinary artist. Pulling from various figurative art techniques, Durden employs a wide range of mediums--oil and acrylic paint, graphite and fine art photography --to construct their hyperrealistic and conceptual works of art. Durden's artworks illuminate the complexity and precarity of human emotion and identity by meticulously examining their own.
In 2021, Durden completed a breathtaking mural for the inaugural BLKOUT Walls mural festival in Detroit and a vanitas style influenced mural in St Petersburg, FL for the SHINE mural festival. They were a contributor to the GUCCI VS. EVERYBODY campaign, in collaboration with the Vs Everybody brand and Gucci in conjunction with Gucci Changemakers at the start of 2021. They are a 2021 Gilda Award recipient along with the Playground Detroit 20/20 Emerging Artists Fellowship and the Modern Ancient Brown Foundation Grant awardee.
Bakpak is focused on continuing their work within their communities; highlighting black trans and queer visibility in addition to mental health, neurodiversity and disability advocacy/representation as a Detroiter in its robust art scene.
Carmen McNall
My work tells the stories of female figures of strength, focusing on those who work with their hands; keeping alive the artifacts of humanity. I find great power in the passing down of trades from generation to generation, commanding a presence and pride as craft-makers and workers of dying traditions. Incorporating patterns I find in nature, I reflect on the relationship of people and their environments as times change and we change.
Through my work, I try to recreate the emotional content of a time, place or face that I fear will be lost in the near future. I am interested in capturing the odd experiences of the human condition. The simple, quiet moments between large events. The impacting details that make up life that are easily forgotten.
Chad Hasegawa
"My style and technique is developed from how I would actually paint a wall. The paints I use, the layering process, the learning process... While painting walls you deal with elements of weather: rain, wind, dust, and all angles of direct sunlight. All these elements will influence how I paint my canvas... My approach to painting is not understanding that I'm painting on canvas; I paint on canvas with the understanding of painting on walls."
In Chad Hasegawa's current body of work, he molds his resourceful street art background with his fine art influences. Hasegawa's non objective paintings rely on forms and colors, as they relate to one another and create a single shape. Hasegawa takes his concerns for painting something that lasts outdoors, and applies the same techniques when approaching a canvas. He uses latex paint, and oversized brush strokes to ensure these paintings, like his murals, will surpass the test of time.
Although he was born and raised in Honolulu, HI, Chad Hasegawa became enthralled with graffiti and the art of the Mission School. In 2000, he moved to San Francisco and gained his BFA in advertising at the Academy of Art University. He worked for top agencies, including Venables Bell & Partners and Goodby Silverstein & Partners, before leaving advertising to concentrate on painting murals on the streets, and canvases for both commercial and non-profit gallery shows. He quickly gained recognition for his bold and colorful latex paint brush strokes that pushed the boundaries of public art.
Chiaozza
Adam Frezza & Terri Chiao are an American artist duo whose work explores play and craft across a range of media, including painted sculpture, installation, collage, photography, design, and public art. Also known as CHIAOZZA (rhymes with "wowza" or "yowza"), Adam and Terri have exhibited their collaborative work in solo exhibitions in New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles, in numerous group shows around the US, and in a variety of art and design venues internationally. The studio was founded in 2011 and is based in New York City.
Erin Zhao
Haoyun Erin Zhao is a multidisciplinary artist based in San Francisco, California, working in printmaking, painting, sculpture, and installation. Growing up in Southern China where ethnic art and cultures inspired Zhao's early interest in how hand-repetition involved creating intricate patterns and forms, she was motivated to develop a creative expression that unifies body and mind. The artist's relocation to the United States at the age of seventeen introduced her to a new set of cultures and influences. As her exposure to eastern and western influence grows and intersects, it led her interest to explore and investigate multicultural influences on human psychology, aesthetics, and activity. Rooted in her study of Eastern and Western Philosophy, Zhao's work explores the intangibility of perception through the physicality of her materials. Paying particular attention to the interaction of light, color, and form, Zhao uses transparency and abstraction to mimic the ethereal and elusive nature of human consciousness. Through her practice, the artist continues to experience and explore the connections between physical objects and non-physical mediums (e.g., light, emotion, consciousness, etc.)
Commissioned by IBM in 2020, Zhao created a mixed media installation that explores the relationship between art and blockchain technology to promote sustainability. She's the recipient of Facebook Open Arts/Artist in Residence, Edition/Basel Printmaking Residency (Basel, Switzerland), Kala Art Institute Artist in Residence (Berkeley, U.S.), Mission Gráfica Printmaking Residency (SF, U.S.), In Cahoots Residency (Petaluma, U.S.), Hearts in SF Project by Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital Foundation, Thousand-Island Lake Art Project (Zhejiang, China), etc. The artist's work has been published in various magazines and exhibited in museums, galleries, and art fairs at venues such as de Young Museum, Art Santa Fe Contemporary Art Fair, International Print Center New York, Galerie Kuchling Berlin, Root Division SF, Sanchez Art Center, Glass Rice Gallery, The Compound Gallery Oakland, etc. Her work is in the collections of Facebook, IBM, Kaiser Permanente, Boston Children's Hospital, Guizhou Minzu University (China), Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (NYC), Kala Art Institute, and numerous private collections.
Hanna Lee Joshi
Hanna Lee Joshi is a Korean-Canadian artist who's practice primarily involves depictions of the female form.
Her work currently explores the search for autonomy within and themes of individuality and how it relates to the universal identity.
"It is my way of coming to terms with being ok with taking up space; in society, in my day to day life. My pieces range from exploring a feeling of being contained within social constraints or self-created limitations to depicting the ceaseless chase for freedom. For me, it is a therapeutic reclaiming of how female bodies are depicted, little by little dismantling any internalized misogyny or any notion of how a woman should be or behave. It is a constant process where I am attempting to redefine how I see myself."
Helice Wen
Helice Wen is a Chinese-American artist. She was born and raised in Shen Zhen, China. She moved to San Francisco at age 14 where she currently lives and works.
Helice received a BA Illustration degree from Academy of Art University, San Francisco. After illustrated several children's books, Helice switched her focus to gallery work. Her work has shown in galleries both nationally and internationally.
Through her work, Helice uses figures and floral patterns to narrate the intimate, vulnerable, and sensibilities in everyday life.
Rubén Sanchez
Born and raised in Madrid (1979), adopted by Barcelona and Dubai in the past years and currently living in Badalona, Spain. Self-taught artist coming from the 90's subcultures of graffiti and skateboarding. Graphic design and illustration will later create a background that can be found in his works today: a strong graphic style that resonates through all of his projects.
Canvases, murals, ceramics, large public sculptures or even underwater installations. His works are limitless in possibilities and locations and they can be found all around the globe as a part of art festivals, commissions, humanitarian projects or international exhibitions but mostly as any kind of 'uncommissioned' works.
Vibrant color palettes, asymmetry and lack of perfect proportions are the ingredients of a game where you are challenged to depict Ruben's messages and concerns throughout characters and elements in fragile balance but with strong interactions. A personal style where visual balance, chain reactions and connectivity flirts with cubism and abstraction.
Exhibition Dates: April 16 - May 14, 2022
Opening Exhibition: April 16, 2pm - 6pm
Gallery Hours: By Appointment Only
Embodiment asks artists to analyze how the elements of design (shape, color, space, form, line, value, and texture) transcend the sum of their parts in a cohesive composition. How do they rely upon and inform each other to bring a piece to life. The opening reception for Embodiment is on Saturday, April 16th, 2022 from 2-6pm and is free and open to the public.
The work ranges from abstract to hyper-realistic and varies dramatically stylistically, but is united in emoting a certain other-worldliness. Across the spectrum, these artworks succeed in making the incorporeal tangible. The works presented communicate very specific moods, emotions, or feelings through color, style, texture, and surrealist/fantastical elements. Each piece is an opportunity to investigate the how and why of connection through these shared emotions.
Viewers can expect to find an open-ended answer to the question of how color and form relate in these artists' paintings. In addition, a site-specific installation from Erin Zhao will take over the atrium of the gallery. Zhao's installation is a reflection upon different states of meditation and the ways in which the human form experiences them.
About the artists:
Amy Sol
Amy Sol's works depict dream-like scenes, inhabited with imaginary creatures and beings. Her paintings are recognized for their distinctly subdued palette and soft brushwork. A sense of calmness and contemplation is often expressed in the faces and gestures of her characters. Themes of introspection, kinship, and adoration of nature are often present in her work.
Bakpak Durden
Bakpak Durden, born and raised in Detroit, is a self-taught multi-hyphenate post disciplinary artist. Pulling from various figurative art techniques, Durden employs a wide range of mediums--oil and acrylic paint, graphite and fine art photography --to construct their hyperrealistic and conceptual works of art. Durden's artworks illuminate the complexity and precarity of human emotion and identity by meticulously examining their own.
In 2021, Durden completed a breathtaking mural for the inaugural BLKOUT Walls mural festival in Detroit and a vanitas style influenced mural in St Petersburg, FL for the SHINE mural festival. They were a contributor to the GUCCI VS. EVERYBODY campaign, in collaboration with the Vs Everybody brand and Gucci in conjunction with Gucci Changemakers at the start of 2021. They are a 2021 Gilda Award recipient along with the Playground Detroit 20/20 Emerging Artists Fellowship and the Modern Ancient Brown Foundation Grant awardee.
Bakpak is focused on continuing their work within their communities; highlighting black trans and queer visibility in addition to mental health, neurodiversity and disability advocacy/representation as a Detroiter in its robust art scene.
Carmen McNall
My work tells the stories of female figures of strength, focusing on those who work with their hands; keeping alive the artifacts of humanity. I find great power in the passing down of trades from generation to generation, commanding a presence and pride as craft-makers and workers of dying traditions. Incorporating patterns I find in nature, I reflect on the relationship of people and their environments as times change and we change.
Through my work, I try to recreate the emotional content of a time, place or face that I fear will be lost in the near future. I am interested in capturing the odd experiences of the human condition. The simple, quiet moments between large events. The impacting details that make up life that are easily forgotten.
Chad Hasegawa
"My style and technique is developed from how I would actually paint a wall. The paints I use, the layering process, the learning process... While painting walls you deal with elements of weather: rain, wind, dust, and all angles of direct sunlight. All these elements will influence how I paint my canvas... My approach to painting is not understanding that I'm painting on canvas; I paint on canvas with the understanding of painting on walls."
In Chad Hasegawa's current body of work, he molds his resourceful street art background with his fine art influences. Hasegawa's non objective paintings rely on forms and colors, as they relate to one another and create a single shape. Hasegawa takes his concerns for painting something that lasts outdoors, and applies the same techniques when approaching a canvas. He uses latex paint, and oversized brush strokes to ensure these paintings, like his murals, will surpass the test of time.
Although he was born and raised in Honolulu, HI, Chad Hasegawa became enthralled with graffiti and the art of the Mission School. In 2000, he moved to San Francisco and gained his BFA in advertising at the Academy of Art University. He worked for top agencies, including Venables Bell & Partners and Goodby Silverstein & Partners, before leaving advertising to concentrate on painting murals on the streets, and canvases for both commercial and non-profit gallery shows. He quickly gained recognition for his bold and colorful latex paint brush strokes that pushed the boundaries of public art.
Chiaozza
Adam Frezza & Terri Chiao are an American artist duo whose work explores play and craft across a range of media, including painted sculpture, installation, collage, photography, design, and public art. Also known as CHIAOZZA (rhymes with "wowza" or "yowza"), Adam and Terri have exhibited their collaborative work in solo exhibitions in New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles, in numerous group shows around the US, and in a variety of art and design venues internationally. The studio was founded in 2011 and is based in New York City.
Erin Zhao
Haoyun Erin Zhao is a multidisciplinary artist based in San Francisco, California, working in printmaking, painting, sculpture, and installation. Growing up in Southern China where ethnic art and cultures inspired Zhao's early interest in how hand-repetition involved creating intricate patterns and forms, she was motivated to develop a creative expression that unifies body and mind. The artist's relocation to the United States at the age of seventeen introduced her to a new set of cultures and influences. As her exposure to eastern and western influence grows and intersects, it led her interest to explore and investigate multicultural influences on human psychology, aesthetics, and activity. Rooted in her study of Eastern and Western Philosophy, Zhao's work explores the intangibility of perception through the physicality of her materials. Paying particular attention to the interaction of light, color, and form, Zhao uses transparency and abstraction to mimic the ethereal and elusive nature of human consciousness. Through her practice, the artist continues to experience and explore the connections between physical objects and non-physical mediums (e.g., light, emotion, consciousness, etc.)
Commissioned by IBM in 2020, Zhao created a mixed media installation that explores the relationship between art and blockchain technology to promote sustainability. She's the recipient of Facebook Open Arts/Artist in Residence, Edition/Basel Printmaking Residency (Basel, Switzerland), Kala Art Institute Artist in Residence (Berkeley, U.S.), Mission Gráfica Printmaking Residency (SF, U.S.), In Cahoots Residency (Petaluma, U.S.), Hearts in SF Project by Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital Foundation, Thousand-Island Lake Art Project (Zhejiang, China), etc. The artist's work has been published in various magazines and exhibited in museums, galleries, and art fairs at venues such as de Young Museum, Art Santa Fe Contemporary Art Fair, International Print Center New York, Galerie Kuchling Berlin, Root Division SF, Sanchez Art Center, Glass Rice Gallery, The Compound Gallery Oakland, etc. Her work is in the collections of Facebook, IBM, Kaiser Permanente, Boston Children's Hospital, Guizhou Minzu University (China), Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (NYC), Kala Art Institute, and numerous private collections.
Hanna Lee Joshi
Hanna Lee Joshi is a Korean-Canadian artist who's practice primarily involves depictions of the female form.
Her work currently explores the search for autonomy within and themes of individuality and how it relates to the universal identity.
"It is my way of coming to terms with being ok with taking up space; in society, in my day to day life. My pieces range from exploring a feeling of being contained within social constraints or self-created limitations to depicting the ceaseless chase for freedom. For me, it is a therapeutic reclaiming of how female bodies are depicted, little by little dismantling any internalized misogyny or any notion of how a woman should be or behave. It is a constant process where I am attempting to redefine how I see myself."
Helice Wen
Helice Wen is a Chinese-American artist. She was born and raised in Shen Zhen, China. She moved to San Francisco at age 14 where she currently lives and works.
Helice received a BA Illustration degree from Academy of Art University, San Francisco. After illustrated several children's books, Helice switched her focus to gallery work. Her work has shown in galleries both nationally and internationally.
Through her work, Helice uses figures and floral patterns to narrate the intimate, vulnerable, and sensibilities in everyday life.
Rubén Sanchez
Born and raised in Madrid (1979), adopted by Barcelona and Dubai in the past years and currently living in Badalona, Spain. Self-taught artist coming from the 90's subcultures of graffiti and skateboarding. Graphic design and illustration will later create a background that can be found in his works today: a strong graphic style that resonates through all of his projects.
Canvases, murals, ceramics, large public sculptures or even underwater installations. His works are limitless in possibilities and locations and they can be found all around the globe as a part of art festivals, commissions, humanitarian projects or international exhibitions but mostly as any kind of 'uncommissioned' works.
Vibrant color palettes, asymmetry and lack of perfect proportions are the ingredients of a game where you are challenged to depict Ruben's messages and concerns throughout characters and elements in fragile balance but with strong interactions. A personal style where visual balance, chain reactions and connectivity flirts with cubism and abstraction.
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Opening Exhibition: April 16, 2pm - 6pm
Gallery Hours: By Appointment Only
Embodiment asks artists to analyze how the elements of design (shape, color, space, form, line, value, and texture) transcend the sum of their parts in a cohesive composition. How do they rely upon and inform each other to bring a piece to life. The opening reception for Embodiment is on Saturday, April 16th, 2022 from 2-6pm and is free and open to the public.
The work ranges from abstract to hyper-realistic and varies dramatically stylistically, but is united in emoting a certain other-worldliness. Across the spectrum, these artworks succeed in making the incorporeal tangible. The works presented communicate very specific moods, emotions, or feelings through color, style, texture, and surrealist/fantastical elements. Each piece is an opportunity to investigate the how and why of connection through these shared emotions.
Viewers can expect to find an open-ended answer to the question of how color and form relate in these artists' paintings. In addition, a site-specific installation from Erin Zhao will take over the atrium of the gallery. Zhao's installation is a reflection upon different states of meditation and the ways in which the human form experiences them.
About the artists:
Amy Sol
Amy Sol's works depict dream-like scenes, inhabited with imaginary creatures and beings. Her paintings are recognized for their distinctly subdued palette and soft brushwork. A sense of calmness and contemplation is often expressed in the faces and gestures of her characters. Themes of introspection, kinship, and adoration of nature are often present in her work.
Bakpak Durden
Bakpak Durden, born and raised in Detroit, is a self-taught multi-hyphenate post disciplinary artist. Pulling from various figurative art techniques, Durden employs a wide range of mediums--oil and acrylic paint, graphite and fine art photography --to construct their hyperrealistic and conceptual works of art. Durden's artworks illuminate the complexity and precarity of human emotion and identity by meticulously examining their own.
In 2021, Durden completed a breathtaking mural for the inaugural BLKOUT Walls mural festival in Detroit and a vanitas style influenced mural in St Petersburg, FL for the SHINE mural festival. They were a contributor to the GUCCI VS. EVERYBODY campaign, in collaboration with the Vs Everybody brand and Gucci in conjunction with Gucci Changemakers at the start of 2021. They are a 2021 Gilda Award recipient along with the Playground Detroit 20/20 Emerging Artists Fellowship and the Modern Ancient Brown Foundation Grant awardee.
Bakpak is focused on continuing their work within their communities; highlighting black trans and queer visibility in addition to mental health, neurodiversity and disability advocacy/representation as a Detroiter in its robust art scene.
Carmen McNall
My work tells the stories of female figures of strength, focusing on those who work with their hands; keeping alive the artifacts of humanity. I find great power in the passing down of trades from generation to generation, commanding a presence and pride as craft-makers and workers of dying traditions. Incorporating patterns I find in nature, I reflect on the relationship of people and their environments as times change and we change.
Through my work, I try to recreate the emotional content of a time, place or face that I fear will be lost in the near future. I am interested in capturing the odd experiences of the human condition. The simple, quiet moments between large events. The impacting details that make up life that are easily forgotten.
Chad Hasegawa
"My style and technique is developed from how I would actually paint a wall. The paints I use, the layering process, the learning process... While painting walls you deal with elements of weather: rain, wind, dust, and all angles of direct sunlight. All these elements will influence how I paint my canvas... My approach to painting is not understanding that I'm painting on canvas; I paint on canvas with the understanding of painting on walls."
In Chad Hasegawa's current body of work, he molds his resourceful street art background with his fine art influences. Hasegawa's non objective paintings rely on forms and colors, as they relate to one another and create a single shape. Hasegawa takes his concerns for painting something that lasts outdoors, and applies the same techniques when approaching a canvas. He uses latex paint, and oversized brush strokes to ensure these paintings, like his murals, will surpass the test of time.
Although he was born and raised in Honolulu, HI, Chad Hasegawa became enthralled with graffiti and the art of the Mission School. In 2000, he moved to San Francisco and gained his BFA in advertising at the Academy of Art University. He worked for top agencies, including Venables Bell & Partners and Goodby Silverstein & Partners, before leaving advertising to concentrate on painting murals on the streets, and canvases for both commercial and non-profit gallery shows. He quickly gained recognition for his bold and colorful latex paint brush strokes that pushed the boundaries of public art.
Chiaozza
Adam Frezza & Terri Chiao are an American artist duo whose work explores play and craft across a range of media, including painted sculpture, installation, collage, photography, design, and public art. Also known as CHIAOZZA (rhymes with "wowza" or "yowza"), Adam and Terri have exhibited their collaborative work in solo exhibitions in New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles, in numerous group shows around the US, and in a variety of art and design venues internationally. The studio was founded in 2011 and is based in New York City.
Erin Zhao
Haoyun Erin Zhao is a multidisciplinary artist based in San Francisco, California, working in printmaking, painting, sculpture, and installation. Growing up in Southern China where ethnic art and cultures inspired Zhao's early interest in how hand-repetition involved creating intricate patterns and forms, she was motivated to develop a creative expression that unifies body and mind. The artist's relocation to the United States at the age of seventeen introduced her to a new set of cultures and influences. As her exposure to eastern and western influence grows and intersects, it led her interest to explore and investigate multicultural influences on human psychology, aesthetics, and activity. Rooted in her study of Eastern and Western Philosophy, Zhao's work explores the intangibility of perception through the physicality of her materials. Paying particular attention to the interaction of light, color, and form, Zhao uses transparency and abstraction to mimic the ethereal and elusive nature of human consciousness. Through her practice, the artist continues to experience and explore the connections between physical objects and non-physical mediums (e.g., light, emotion, consciousness, etc.)
Commissioned by IBM in 2020, Zhao created a mixed media installation that explores the relationship between art and blockchain technology to promote sustainability. She's the recipient of Facebook Open Arts/Artist in Residence, Edition/Basel Printmaking Residency (Basel, Switzerland), Kala Art Institute Artist in Residence (Berkeley, U.S.), Mission Gráfica Printmaking Residency (SF, U.S.), In Cahoots Residency (Petaluma, U.S.), Hearts in SF Project by Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital Foundation, Thousand-Island Lake Art Project (Zhejiang, China), etc. The artist's work has been published in various magazines and exhibited in museums, galleries, and art fairs at venues such as de Young Museum, Art Santa Fe Contemporary Art Fair, International Print Center New York, Galerie Kuchling Berlin, Root Division SF, Sanchez Art Center, Glass Rice Gallery, The Compound Gallery Oakland, etc. Her work is in the collections of Facebook, IBM, Kaiser Permanente, Boston Children's Hospital, Guizhou Minzu University (China), Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (NYC), Kala Art Institute, and numerous private collections.
Hanna Lee Joshi
Hanna Lee Joshi is a Korean-Canadian artist who's practice primarily involves depictions of the female form.
Her work currently explores the search for autonomy within and themes of individuality and how it relates to the universal identity.
"It is my way of coming to terms with being ok with taking up space; in society, in my day to day life. My pieces range from exploring a feeling of being contained within social constraints or self-created limitations to depicting the ceaseless chase for freedom. For me, it is a therapeutic reclaiming of how female bodies are depicted, little by little dismantling any internalized misogyny or any notion of how a woman should be or behave. It is a constant process where I am attempting to redefine how I see myself."
Helice Wen
Helice Wen is a Chinese-American artist. She was born and raised in Shen Zhen, China. She moved to San Francisco at age 14 where she currently lives and works.
Helice received a BA Illustration degree from Academy of Art University, San Francisco. After illustrated several children's books, Helice switched her focus to gallery work. Her work has shown in galleries both nationally and internationally.
Through her work, Helice uses figures and floral patterns to narrate the intimate, vulnerable, and sensibilities in everyday life.
Rubén Sanchez
Born and raised in Madrid (1979), adopted by Barcelona and Dubai in the past years and currently living in Badalona, Spain. Self-taught artist coming from the 90's subcultures of graffiti and skateboarding. Graphic design and illustration will later create a background that can be found in his works today: a strong graphic style that resonates through all of his projects.
Canvases, murals, ceramics, large public sculptures or even underwater installations. His works are limitless in possibilities and locations and they can be found all around the globe as a part of art festivals, commissions, humanitarian projects or international exhibitions but mostly as any kind of 'uncommissioned' works.
Vibrant color palettes, asymmetry and lack of perfect proportions are the ingredients of a game where you are challenged to depict Ruben's messages and concerns throughout characters and elements in fragile balance but with strong interactions. A personal style where visual balance, chain reactions and connectivity flirts with cubism and abstraction.
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