Miguel Ovalle “Encryption”
Joseph Gross Gallery
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ArtNowNY presents Encryption, a multi-media exhibition featuring new work by Miguel Ovalle exploring the glitch as a metaphor for the physical, digital or emotional malfunctions of everyday life. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.
Encryption will feature an immersive body of work in various media, capturing Ovalle’s words, thoughts, and fantasies and the glitches that go hand-in-hand with these expressive and intrinsic qualities in life. “Everyday we experience malfunctions, be it physical, emotional or electronic. And like we restart our computers, our minds and bodies need to be reset daily,” Ovalle explains.
The artist attempts to find meaning from the subliminal, encrypted messages he experiences day to day, as evident in the work in the exhibition that includes sculptural installations, photographs, paintings, projections, and performance. With much of the work inspired by his recent art happening Glitterati, the spirit of his studio-as-incubator transcends to the gallery space. Viewers can expect to enter the private and topical world of the artist, and experience his translation of love and pain as expressed through a unique aesthetic synthesized from influences including architecture, typography, fashion and technology.
Well known in the street art scene of New York, Ovalle has established a reputation for creating immersive experiences that transcend the usual art/audience boundaries. Installations based on his interactions with people during his studio events are activated through 3-dimensional sculptures and video projection. Paintings of “love letters” composed in a language of the artist’s own invention lay bare his private life, though coded by the mysterious nature of their untranslatable tongue. A series of custom-made frames based on digital code add an additional dimension to the work.
Ovalle’s overall practice seeks to explore interactions between people and material objects, self-reflection, technology, and the communicative possibilities of the visual world. Ovalle’s work is representative of the place and time of its creation, as much as people are products of their circumstances.
Miguel Ovalle lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and received his BFA from Maryland Institute College of Arts Baltimore, Maryland. He has had solo exhibitions as the featured artist at the 2013 Fountain Art Fair Duchamp Tribute; the DUMBO Arts Fest with Mighty Tanaka Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; TT Underground Gallery, New York, NY; and DREAMBASE STUDIO at 112 Greene St. New York, NY, among others, and shown in group exhibitions including most recently the Scope Art Fair 2013, Miami Beach, FL; The Walk Way Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; and Superchief Gallery New York, NY. Miguel was the 2011 Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series National Winner.
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Schedule
from January 09, 2014 to February 01, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-01-09 from 18:00 to 21:00