Gina Ruggeri and Rob Wynne "Figment"
Gallery KUMUKUMU
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KUMUKUMU presents its second special project "Figment" curated by Florence Uchida and featuring the works of Gina Ruggeri and Rob Wynne.
Gina Ruggeri’s cut-out paintings on Mylar evoke striking illusions that interact with architectural space. Attached flush to the wall and only a few millimeters thick, the works’ bold, emblematically flat silhouettes engage the entire body and lend a palpable, sculptural presence to their ephemeral subjects. The artist focuses her attention on mutable, immaterial forms in nature, drawn from her imagination and lushly rendered in translucent layers of acrylic paint. A plume of smoke hovers in suspended animation, while trompe l’oeil caverns and holes appear to erode the gallery walls. These idealized representations of transmutation and decay invoke thoughts of evanescence and mortality, even as they playfully flaunt their artifice as manmade constructions.
Ruggeri lives and works in the outer boroughs of New York City.
Rob Wynne's work is a unique combination of baroque and decadent sensibilities and notions that take many forms from glass mushrooms and glittering beaded works on velum to fly wallpaper and printed canvases with embroidery. Wynne's interests in faux nature and fascination with language are also realized in mirrored, glass text works made up of humorous and poignant works and phrases with distorted letters.
For Figment, Wynne will present a silver and pastel colored floor sculpture of glass mushrooms that reminds one of a magical 'Alice in Wonderland' hallucination. This fantastical reference to the surreal or drug induced vision can be carried on in the gold, ceramic branch with little glass eye balls protruding from it, jutting out directly from the wall.
Rob Wynne lives and works in New York City.
[Image: Rob Wynne "8 Mushroom Family" (2008) Blown, poured and mirrored glass 20 x 15 x 28 in.]
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Schedule
from November 19, 2009 to December 13, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-11-19 from 18:00 to 21:00