“Intertwined” Exhibition

1969 Gallery

poster for “Intertwined” Exhibition
[Image: Nora Maité Nieves "The Cathedral" (2021) mixed media on canvas, 23.3h x 19w in.]

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curated by Alex Allenchey

Over the past year and a half, everyone has been rethinking pretty
much everything. Stuck at home, our smallest movements became
monumental, while on a global level, pandemic-induced geopolitical
paralysis forced a reevaluation of our social structures. Intertwined gathers
eight artists whose works provide an appraisal of the way things were, and
offer potential visions for a brighter, more communal future.

Cut off from our extended networks, we recently found ourselves more isolated from the outside world than ever before. Full, robust lives were transformed into ones of forced quietude, replete with extreme introspection and self-inspection. At a time when sharing even air became dangerous, the attenuation of weak links revealed how dependent we are on chains we cannot see, how enmeshed we are with people we will never meet. Hyper-local communities became increasingly important—the people and businesses on your block, the scenes you could encounter when you ventured outside on foot.

Despite the persistent, misguided allegiance to individualism held by some, we are never not part of the world—we are all a piece of the continent, a part of the main. With our newfound recognition of the power of individual actions and their compounding effects, one hopes that a communal push toward reinforcing our linkages leads to a fairer and healthier body collective.

E.E. Ikeler’s densely constructed lattices hint at the ties that bind, while her text-based work shows that small words sometimes reveal the biggest truisms. Ernesto Renda paints on canvas layered over a separate sculpted image, expressing a certain simultaneity of action: the present is always changing, becoming an afterimage as quickly as it arrives. Victoria Roth’s abstractions present disparate mechanisms working in tandem—a mysterious, albeit harmonious display of synergistic functions. With his assemblages of found canvases that turn trash into tapestry, Graham Collins stitches together a whole infinitely greater than the sum of its parts.

Maria Calandra’s slippery landscapes display the interconnectedness of the natural world, with writhing, flowing processes that occur absent human intervention. Meanwhile, drawing inspiration from urban architecture, Nora Maité Nieves shows us that constellations of stars are all around us, not just in nature. Alessandro Teoldi constructs communities from the byproducts of commercial travel, lending a sense of tenderness to an otherwise anonymous activity. Exploding with color, Beverly Acha’s paintings present a thrilling antidote to situational social smallness, and revel in how electrifying it is to feel those renewed connections.

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Schedule

from November 11, 2021 to December 19, 2021

Opening Reception on 2021-11-11 from 18:00 to 20:00

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