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FRONT art space is pleased to present:
Inhabited Mindscapes
Group EXHIBITION
November 19th - December 9th, 2021
New York, NY – November 19th – Inhabited Mindscapes is a group exhibition curated by Dionisio Cortés. This show features the work of 14 artists: Magdalena Dávila, Dale Emmart, Horacio García, Suzanne Kammin, Margaret Krug, Alva Mooses, Ricardo Mulero, Stephen Niccolls, Leticia Ortega, Allison Russo, Jill Weinstein, Mauricio Cortés, Dionisio Cortés-Ortega, and Dionisio Cortés.
In the current exhibition Inhabited Mindscapes, 13 personal panoramas will give us access to a wide and fascinating array of inner worlds. Mindscapes, the states of mind in our inner reality resulting from experiencing or imagining landscape, are subjective and very personal in meaning. And yet, these mindscapes are also regarded as panoramas capable of being contemplated/inhabited by other persons.
Open for conversation, the playful “bodegones” (Spanish still-life genre paintings) of Magda Davila, ask us to rethink our way we look at the world around us.
The atmospheric drawings and paintings of Dale Emmart present us with her graphic responses to active, open skies which aim to capture the ordinary as something more potent.
Horacio Garcia Rosas's vigorous abstractions are visual forces willing to apprehend the reality that surrounds us as well as our inner reality which he calls “our inner nature”.
Suzanne Kammin’s paintings are informed by Buddhist emptiness teachings which posit that nothing possesses inherent existence; everything is dependent on its parts, on causes and conditions and on the mind.
Margaret Krug’s atmospheric pictorial spaces slowly reveal the artist's emotional state to us and provide an avenue for connection with a greater emotional field.
Stephen Niccolls’ structured abstractions establish their own unique world, evoking portrait paintings, still-lifes or landscapes, aiming to sum up the mood of being in a place and time.
Ricardo Mulero’s luminous and color-infused paintings are visual recognitions of environments the artist inhabits: Puerto Rico, New York City, Fire Island, and Hudson NY.
Leticia Ortega’s constant negotiation between painting and sculpture, and between abstraction and figuration, produces atmospheric landscapes with loosely merged layers of color. And by contrast, also yields forms of the human body which she consciously and accurately renders.
The work of Allison Russo captures singular moments in time, usually of something fleeting that others may find unremarkable. For her, sunlight on the morning waves, her dad’s gaze, a walk surrounded by the color green are some of the memories she savors the most.
Jill Weinstein’s painting work allows her to use color and light to convey emotion and space. Her work aims to find balance between movement and stillness, and line and form.
Mauricio Cortes’ work explores novel ways of processing and generating imagery. Drawing from his teaching experience and his interactions with young students, his work frames complex ideas around identity and sense of belonging.
Do our minds create specific spaces for our memories and ideas? Dionisio Cortes Ortega’s latest drawings tackle this question. His poetic interpretation show the asexual human body representing ideas or memories intertwined in the neurological network of tree branches of the mind.
Dionisio Cortes’ clay head sculptures are fictionalized characters. Realistic in nature, they are philosophical abstractions with conceptual aspirations.