NYAB Event - Mario Naves and Holly Miller Exhibitions

Mario Naves and Holly Miller Exhibitions

Elizabeth Harris Gallery

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Mario Naves's recent work continues his long-standing exploration of collage as a form of painting. Employing acrylic paint, pasted paper and, in rare cases, found materials. Naves created images that emerge from a rough-hewn, improvisatory process.

Holly Miller was born in Buffalo, NY but grew up in Rome, Italy. In her work she has always embraced the sensibilities of two cultures.
Arte Povera inherently influences Miller. She uses "poor" materials and a restrained palette, expanding within those limits. Raised in a culture that is fearless in communicating through touch, she tries to convey a tactile awareness through visual means. Drawing with thread on a painted canvas, the layers on lines conceal the skin of the painting by creating a physical accumulation of saturated color, especially when seen from the side. As the viewers faces the painting, the lines open up, revealing the painted surface.
A hybrid is created between the optical and the tactile, painting and sculpture, illusion and realty, the ethereal and the material. Her work addresses many dichotomies: warm/cool, sensuous/restrained, intuitive/structural.

Media

• Painting
• Sculpture

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