Paradigm Shift

Lannie Hart

Phenomenal Women

MARCH 26 – APRIL 19

Opening Reception: Thursday March 28th, 5-8pm Open House: Saturday March 30th, 4-7pm

SOHO20 CHELSEA GALLERY 547 West 27th St. Ste. 301
NY NY 10001

Above: Adam & Eve, oil and collage on canvas with brass and aluminum, 40×45 inches, 2013 SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery is pleased to present Phenomenal Women new paintings

and sculptures by artist Lannie Hart.

William Blake said that poetry and art are ʻways to converse with paradiseʼ. In Lannie Hartʼs exhibition she attempts to connect one paradise with the other. Hartʼs surreal painting “Emilyʼs Garden” relates to not only the series of garden poems by Emily Dickinson but to the soul of Dickinson as she vomits flowers. Her “Adam and Eve” painting evokes the image of Eve, the naive victim as depicted in the poem by Ralph Hodgson, and also Derek Walcottʻs poem which presents Eve as Adamʼs death. With Allen Ginsbergʼs epic poem “Kaddish”, Hart stretches for the depth of mourning in her sculpture,of the same name. She takes the humor of Billy Collinsʼs “Taking Emily Dickinsonʼs Clothes Off” and turns it into a painting about peeling off the layers of Dickinsonʼs insecurity. The painting “Womb” relates to a poem about a

womanʼs desire to tell the child she has aborted that she loves it. Her steel sculpture “Virgin of the Apocalypse”, influenced by a haiku by Scott Mason, gives us a Madonna with a glass heart and stigmata.

In all of Hartʼs latest work she continues to explore the image of women and how they are perceived by society as portrayed in myth and legend. The paintings are oil and collage on different surfaces with fabricated brass and aluminum frames. The sculptures consist of different fabricated metals, polymer clay and found objects.

Lannie Hartʼs career as an artist began in the fine crafts area as a soft sculptor, which culminated in a two-person show at Julie Artisanʼs Gallery and inclusion in the classic book “Art to Wear”. She has shown at the Museum for Contemporary Crafts in NYC and at numerous juried craft shows. Her more current work has been shown at the Katonah Museum and the Virginia Museum of Fine Art. She is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University with a BFA. Hart is also a graphic artist and ran her own graphic design studio in NYC for 15 years. She has traveled and worked in Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Europe. This is her second solo exhibition at SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery.

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Patricia Espinosa

Popping Into Abstraction

March 26 – April 19, 2013 Opening Reception: Thursday March 28th, 6-8pm

SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery
547 West 27th Street, Suite 301 New York, NY 10001

Above: “Brote” (Outbreak), Mixed Media 12×12 inches

SOHO20 presents Popping Into Abstraction, new work by Patricia Espinosa, on view March 26 through April 19. The exhibition will feature large paintings and mixed media installations and works by the artist.

At the heart of Espinosa’s work and practice is a desire to strike a balance between natural dualities and to understand both the interconnectedness and contrasting nature of these elements.

While Espinosa has a long history with drawing and traditional fine art practices, she employs unconventional techniques and materials in her work to disrupt the canonical nature often found in contemporary art. Used either directly in the work or as a tool to facilitate her practice, items such as bubble wrap, coffee stirrers, ping pong balls, hoops, and various household objects play an important part in Espinosa’s creative process. She explains, “The use of non-art materials in art practice frees the artist from the heaviness and expectation that art materials carry”.

In “Sueño de Luto” (Mourning Dream) Espinosa combines mono print and painting, mapping out layers of black, white and gray in rhythmic but chaotic pattern. References to grid-like order and organization are offset by a sporadic bulge or dissipation of pattern. Even the tightly stretched piece “El Atrapa Sueños” (Dream Catcher) juxtaposed with the hanging bubble wrap works in the show are orchestrated to bring a sense of equilibrium. Espinosa’s work acknowledges the harmony in destruction, the loss found in growth and the light found in darkness. One gives rise to the other.

Patricia Espinosa is a Mexican-born artist living in New York City. After completing her BFA at Universidad de las Américas in Mexico in 1996, she moved to New York City to earn her Masters in Fine Arts degree from Parsons School of Design. In 2005 Espinosa joined the Art Student’s League of New York where she studied under the guidance of Nicki Orbach, Kenneth McIndoe, Mariano Del Rosario and Bruce Dorfman. She currently works from her studio in West Harlem. This is her first solo exhibition with SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery.

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