3 ARTISTS’S STATEMENTS Exhibition April 28 to May 3 Opening April 30, from 5 pm to 8 pm
- Apr 10
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 13
Jim Engel
‘‘Aggregation’’
In his creative process Jim Engel explores, using salvaged materials, the tensions between beauty and toxicity, confinement and openness, order and instability. Rather than concealing the origin of these materials, he emphasizes their physical qualities so that their aesthetic appeal coexists with their environmental and cultural implications. Through these intuitive processes, his work reconnects manufactured matter to organic and lived experience.
‘‘My work focuses on everyday industrial materials, particularly those related to production, consumption and waste, which I transform through abstraction to highlight their materiality and symbolic presence. Using savaged materials, I create spaces for reflection on the systems that shape, circulate and celebrate the materials inherent in contemporary life.’’
Jim Engel
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Rita Jerumanis ‘‘ From dusk to dawn’’ ‘‘Through acrylic, I blend impressionism and realism to explore nocturnal light, the fleeting moments when the sky is most alive with color and the world feels still. Whether set in nature or urban landscapes, my work is an invitation to pause, to breathe and experience the calm energy that exists between darkness and light.’’ Rita Jerumanis |
Nikoo Fallah
‘‘ On remaining whole’’
‘‘I paint from a place where memory and identity are inseparable.
I come from a geography that doesn’t leave the body once you’ve left it. It takes root. The female figure in my work is not a subject, it is a site of negotiation of tension between visibility erasure, between heritage and self-definition. I am drawn to stillness. not calm, but restraint. A pause laden with meaning. The moment before speech. I am not trying to narrate trauma, I am more interested in transformation, constraint reshapes the imagination, how limitation engenders inner depth.
Certain forms recur in my paintings, vertical structures. They are the receptacles of memory. They carry within them a collective pain and a silent endurance. They stand upright, they bend and persist.’’
Nikoo Fallah
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