NYAB Event - “Made In Ratio” Exhibition

“Made In Ratio” Exhibition

Cheryl Hazan Gallery

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In Made in Ratio, a group show of accomplished artists whose work is inspired by materials, geometry, structures, space, and patterns, objects are taken out of their original context, impeded by other structures, separated from their source, or have their history of place concealed. In the paintings, sculptures, mixed media, and photography, the ratio of past to present hovers in flux, grasping onto some known while being infiltrated by an unknown.

An admixture of pure pigment watercolor and resin resonate within a sculpted white framework in Michele Francis’ M II Series. The ethereal colors steep in a sensorial and visceral experience. The thick multi-colored drips of Gian Garofalo’s paintings lay neatly side-by-side, as they pull towards the edges in suspended drips, like stalactites. At times they are on vintage wood soda cases as support or are contained within an iconic shape, such as a map of the United States or a comic bubble. The visual language of mark making and pattern in Charles Christopher Hill’s deep and seductive paintings is enhanced by the luscious surface and pristine care he gives each piece. Hill references historical and geographical art and craft he saw during his travels. In House, Hill was inspired by patterns on African textiles; the dense shapes seem layered and pieced together, resting seamlessly together atop a creamy backdrop.

A synchronistic fragmentation occurs in the wake of translucent and opaque paint layers in the enamel and mixed media works by Jeffrey Cortland Jones. The range of whites, creams, pale colors leaching in, and crisp edges of linear shapes combines with shadows seen through the acrylic sheets he paints on. Tamiko Kawata transforms everyday materials into rhythmical collections of patterns and spatial divisions. Safety pins, rubber bands, and newspapers are some of the objects that are reformed in a focused and malleable way. The discarded materials Kawata uses simultaneously reflects her interest in environmental issues and Dadaism. Aakash Nihalani plays with perception and illusion of three dimensional space in his geometric paintings, sculptures, and installations. Inspired by the urban architecture of New York City, Nihalani extracts portions within larger frameworks and intercedes expectations of illusion. Color and space pull the viewer into a new realm in Thomas Pihl’s paintings, away from over consumption and into an ethereal space. Layers of semi-transparent paint are poured onto the canvas, creating a smooth and unaffected surface. Amanda Valdez references the body in a myriad of ways in her mixed media paintings. The intricacies of interior and exterior, places where bodies meet, and the terrain of bodily textures all commingle in her work. Embroidered sections collide and infiltrate the painted segments of her canvases. The movement these various bodies create as well as her witty use of color introduces a seductive tension. Angles and proportions are pushed, pulled, and shifted in Kazumi Yoshida’s mixed media assemblages. Their minimal quality holds an intended space for the complexity of his abstractions.