Yoko d'Holbachie "In the Dark"

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"In the Dark," features new works by Yoko d'Holbachie, in what will be her first solo show at the gallery and will feature ten paintings. "In the Dark" commences the artist's departure from her traditional blazing palettes and candy-coated landscapes as her chimeric creatures take residence in lightless caves and darkened depths.

Staying true to her succulently sweet yet latently threatening creatures in this body, d'Holbachie's darker palette embraces an alternative side of her inhabitant's world and allows for their individual majesty and brilliance to shine through. Stemming from past and contemporary mythologies, Haitian, Egyptian and Greek deities are magically morphed into otherworldly, futuristic beings with an amalgamation of appendages, tusks, horns, eyes, tendrils tentacles, wings and antennas. Despite their mélange of body parts, each one of d'Holbachie's chimeras offers welcoming gazes and nonthreatening bodily gestures. The ostensibly hostile horns and tentacles beckon the viewer to enter their reality and conjoin the fantastical world of d'Holbachie with their own enchanted realms. d'Holbachie takes the often times grotesque and menacing features of what we know and purports them into a new existence which asks the viewer to examine their own tenets. Her imaginative and unique beings suggest we reconsider our own realities and interpretations and accept where we were, are and will be as living creatures of this universe.

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from January 19, 2013 to February 23, 2013

Opening Reception on 2013-01-19 from 19:00 to 23:00

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