“Heavy Metal” Exhibition
Rhombus Space
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Rhombus Space presents Heavy Metal, an exhibition featuring artwork by MaDora Frey, Tom Kotik, Robbii, Alexa Williams, and Ward Yoshimoto.
Curated by Katerina Lanfranco
The artists in Heavy Metal examine concepts of metal as a material, alchemy, and music. Their artworks are both heavy and defiantly light. Non-traditional and often industrial materials are used to create artworks that transcend the original nature of their materiality to form engaging and unexpected sculptures, paintings, and art installations.
Robbii’s shrine-like assemblages bring a redemptive quality to otherwise humble, old, and discarded materials like machine parts, aged wood, and rusted metal. Yoshimoto references his roots in the industrial suburbs of L.A. that polarized his Japanese heritage and plastic Americana, in his suburban folk art metal sculptures and drawings. Williams represents urban and industrial space through concrete and sheet metal paintings that suggest landscape while being formal abstractions. Kotik makes activated monochromes that investigate the relationship between sound, architecture, and Minimalism. Frey’s work synthesizes idyllic nature and city grit with urban elements such as glass, asphalt, and concrete – taking on the sinewy, geometric chaos of the natural world.
The artists in Heavy Metal embrace the power of transforming humble media in their work, to create stunning works that make us reconsider our daily aesthetic and even spiritual experience, in urban and industrial spaces.
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Schedule
from April 10, 2015 to May 03, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-04-10 from 18:00 to 21:00
Artist(s)
MaDora Frey, Tom Kotik, Robbii, Alexa Williams, Ward Yoshimoto