Three exciting new exhibitions open this Friday in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. An intense showing at each gallery, each artist expands their respective traditions of artmaking. Friday night is a not to miss evening of artgoing in Williamsburg. | ||||
Katie Shima at Devotion Gallery Katie Shima: Living Machines at Devotion Gallery Opening November 16th, 7-11 The Living Machines are a series of hand-drawn images in ink and graphite on vellum made using traditional architectural drafting techniques. The drawings look into the ways in which industrialized societies replace natural processes with artificial ones in order to maintain their standard of living, or ways in which they might do so in the future. Parts of these mechanical landscapes are drawn with technical accuracy, in section or elevation, like architectural documentation, but the hand-drawn, illustrative quality of the technique adds depth, nuance, and mood, helping to draw out the narratives of the allegorical machines.
Yoon Lee "Road to Absolution" at Pierogi Gallery Opening November 16th, 7-9pmPierogi is pleased to present an exhibition of recent paintings by Yoon Lee. This exhibition consists of large-scale paintings, expansive both physically and visually, punctuated by smaller works that appear to be moments torn from some larger event, with the occasional rest stop in between. These new paintings operate at once at the macro and micro level. They suggest movement through deep space rather than through a particular space. They resemble explosions or points of origin more than whirlwinds of swirling movement through industrial environments. And, simultaneously, they imply temporal events of which the viewer alternately occupies the center point of origin, as in “Road to Absolution” and “More Than a Spoonful,” or is a spectator receiving the brunt of the effects, as in “Sirens.” In a single vertical painting, “Refusal (Rise Against the Current),” Yoon brings all visual forces at her disposal to create a vertiginous splash of defiance. Other paintings, such as “Avoidance” and “Rest Stop (Oasis)” deploy shadow and double vision effects to offer momentary pauses, points of reflection and respite. |