NYAB Event - Lilia "Revealing Momentsan"

Lilia "Revealing Momentsan"

Elga Wimmer PCC

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ElgaWimmer Gallery, PCC presents Lilia: Revealing Momentsan exhibition curated by Dr. ThaliaVrachopoulos.

Lilia’s multi-media sculptures and photographic prints that elaborate upon organic form are like poetic assays into the boundlessness of the human psyche. Like the assay that examines an object to determine the components of its character, Lilia analyzes form to ascertain its weight, measure or quality. Working with hard, tough and flinty materials like marble in her sculptures she creates soft shapes that invite the viewer’s touch while also his query. Thus the dualism of the hard surface juxtaposed against the softly nuanced curve becomes a poetic interval.

Lilia depicts parts of what appears as female anatomy, thereby engaging the analysis of form that like the philosophical idea of deconstruction, challenges traditional notions of absolute knowledge. The viewer can examine these parts from several vantage points to arrive at varied conclusions depending on their context to finally discover that his reading of the form has been subverted. Their significance lies not only in the form itself, but also in the suggestion derived from studying them.The best example of this is seen in her pink alabaster and rope sculpture Strings Attachedthat morphologicallyalludes to a crevice with an unraveling rope emerging from it. When viewing this sculpture from different perspectives it shifts appearance along with its meaning which can be found in the object itself, its context, as well as in the inner dialog of the viewer searching for meaning.

Lilia’s techniquesare timely and combine digital with physical media. The artist carves or casts her sculptures. Her artistic process continues with photography, 3D scanning, and 3D printing of the sculptures. The juxtaposition of digital/handmade, dark/light, soft/hard and rough/smooth afford us a symphony of contrast that magically captivates our eye while engaging our imagination.

Lilia’s photographs like her sculptures depict parts of what can be read as the form with a focus on the crevice and curve. Like the master of chiaroscuro Ingres, she deals with softly modulated values of tone rather than coloristic variation. Ingres’ Odalisque in grisaille also contains such a masterful use of light and dark tonebuthow better to show his virtuosity than on the female form?

Past exhibitions of Lilia’s work have included the Chelsea Museum of Art, the National Arts Club, The Sidney Mishkin Gallery, The Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, The Tenri Gallery, The Consulate General of Greece in New York, The John Jay College Art Gallery, and the 4 Walls Gallery in Seoul. She has also produced a public art project in granite, at Geochang, South Korea. Lilia is currently a graduate student at ITP/Tisch/NYU. She blogs about Art & Technology for the Huffington Post.

[Image: Lilia "Shattered II" (2012) 3d printed sculpture, resin, enamel, pigment, rope, leather, wood (walnut), 48 x 29 x 31 in.]