From February 8, 2014 through April 4, 2014
The Diana Lowenstein Gallery is pleased to announce the gallery’s first solo exhibitions of 2014. Charlotte Squire will exhibit in Miami for the first time, while Uisuk Byeon returns to the gallery. Both exhibitions will be on view until April 4, 2014.
Charlotte Squire: The Visitors
Charlotte Squire’s installations, using light and reclaimed objects from domestic interiors, are borne of a process of collecting, selecting and reusing mundane objects and materials. She is interested in the poetry of the ordinary object and its syntax. The intention is to transform the ordinary into something extraordinary, which belies and transcends its origins. Illumination is, more often than not, part of the construction. This is a mix-up process of assemblage: the constructed objects becoming, via their inherent previous lives, their own family portrait. Grouping them offers a sense of their own sociability and internal history both self-contained and reflexive, yet open-ended as a social encounter. Temporal installations are created from the resonances and vestigial traces of derelict, vacated places: empty shop spaces, run-down arcades and rooftop illuminations.
Charlotte Squire received her MFA from Goldsmiths College, London in 2006. She also studied at Ravensbourne College (formerly the Bromley School of Art) and Middlesex University. She was the recipient of the 2013 Arte Laguna Prize (Venice). Squire lives and works in London.
Uisuk Byeon: The Rhthym of Materiality
From the artist:
“My process involves working on the floor with gravity. This refers back to the oriental paintings from my undergraduate studies. Materiality of paintings plays an important role. When I came to the United States in 2006, above all other things the experience of using different materials, itself, was a new challenge and [primary] concern. Through rhythmical patterns of cracked lines that are created as paint dries, I find its own aesthetic beauty. I see the perfectness of a form created by natural consequences, and there is not much that I can control designing craquelure line. The unstretched canvases on wood panels show the power [struggle] pushing and pulling between fabric and paint as it dries. Viewers can perceive what is happening on the back of big, colored paintings from these small works, showing the back of fabrics with subtle patterns.”
Uisuk Byeon originates from Korea and lives in Boston. She received her BFA and MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007 and 2009, respectively. She has exhibited widely at various international venues.
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 8 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Friday, 10:00am to 5:00pm and Saturday, 10:00am to 3:00pm
Diana Lowenstein Gallery
2043 North Miami Avenue
Miami, Fl 33127
305.576.1804
www.dianalowensteingallery.com
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