Maria Jose Duran Steinman “…From the Kitchen”
Soho20 Chelsea Gallery
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The kitchen was the pin of Steinman’s formative experiences, where teaching, communication and sense of family ripened around a meal. Sentementality and autobiographical narrative emerged from within this positive social environment; it has has since evolved into a springboard for meditative creative practice, and in turn, a space for emotional healing. Automatism plays a key role in Steinman’s creative process; it is often a spontaneous act which extends beyond the realm of concious control. While grasping for physical re-organization and psychological reorientation, she finds comfort in both structural repetition and elemental tactility. She savors spatial configuration and patterning to form geometric objects, considering how they are felt and experienced by the eye, like pieces of a puzzle. Simultaneously, she relishes in experimenting with rudimentary materials such as clay, to produce soft plasmic forms that reflect somatic qualities and embrace rituals of organic transformation.
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from October 29, 2013 to November 23, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-11-07 from 18:00 to 20:00