Neuvo Estilo II: PASSION PLAY
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Fri 7-late, Sat 12-7, Sun 12-7
Open Ground is pleased to present a fresh installation of poignant explorations from these member artists:
Juan Betancurth
Emily Bicht
Pilar Cordoba
Robyn Desposito
Mark Koval
Patrick May
Guillerma Moreno
Lolo Rodriguez
Radek Szczesny
All of these artists honor the intense, personal drama in defining presence and space. Their work examines the immediacy and contradictions of personal life.
Juan Betancurth’s mixed media works explore the mythology surrounding dwellings. Similarly, Emily Bicht takes a look at the expectations and struggles of domestic expectation.
Other artists will present collections that engage definitions of identity. Pilar Cordoba’s cross-stiched sex toys playfully subvert the moral expectations of the medium. Robyn Desposito will present an installation of used cosmetics that betrays the false confidence of shopping for beauty.
These intimacies will be complimented by sublime icons which revel in the intimacy of dream logic. Mark Koval loves immediate, volumous ephemeral drawings that register immediately. Patrick May evokes romantic landscapes in impossible photographs that evade the description of any specific space. Radek Szczesny’s recent drawings explore a certain dark decadence, at once seductive and unsettling.
The crowning touch to the exhibition are two artists who invert the notion of the personal through an examination of the exotic. Guillerma Moreno has a passion for discovery, capturing the essence of a person and their environment in a series of travel portraits. Lolo Rodriguez borrows the form and spirit from Amazonian shamanism to create work that utilizes the figure of the serpent as a central theme.
ABOUT OPEN GROUND
Open Ground is a social space and an open network, constituted by artists, and open to all. Open Ground has emerged from an eight-year experiment with a revolving roster of multidisciplinary artists who support and contextualize each other’s creative work through exhibitions, performances and studio critiques.
The collective was originally housed in a gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where artists practiced an open-source, consensus-based curatorial process. The space became a breeding ground for community building, a place to support local politics, and a headquarters for radical ideas, experimental work and progressive dialogue. Open Ground has nurtured a wide range of artistic styles, and brought hundreds of visitors into a conversation about art and community. We’ve articulated values of openness, generosity, experimentation and DIY-volunteerism that are essential to the progressive spirit of art.
The participating artists have leveraged the support of Open Ground to develop their voice, creating artwork that is unexpectedly inclusive and beautifully aware of their environment. Our dialog is based on profound respect for each other’s cultural and artistic differences.
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