No Man's Land

About

NO MAN’S LAND features the mysterious, blue creations of Radka Salcmannova, large scale painting and works on paper by Theresa Bloise and Su A Chae’s abstracted mindscapes. 

Bloise’s monumental painting ‘Drippy Mountain’ featured on the back wall of the galery, majestically looking out over a field of mysterious Salcmannova sculptures. Their organic shapes, in varying hues of blue, from deep cobalts to greenish turquoise’s, suggesting infinte watery worlds. The material —silicone— strongly resembles the organic world, reminding of a wild element of nature, yet, it’s not organic at all, but a human invention.

Science that feels like science fiction inspires Bloise’s most recent paintings. She uses small earthly objects as a reference, meteorite like slag stones and pebbles on the sidewalk. Collecting and arranging small objects to create a scene meant to inspire awe is a routine practice in the way she works. The work is intended to be read as both still life and landscape: microscopic and monumental, primordial and apocalyptic. 

Su A Chae is also interested in the micro and the macro, as well as the tension between interior and exterior and the organic and mechanical. In her work she uses abstraction as a means to extract her cultural and autobiographical identity, investigating the associated ambivalence thereof. She uses asymmetrical balance of shapes, patterns, colors, and textures to deliberately create paradoxical spaces.

The grids, lattice and checkerboard-like structures resemble fences (and gates) of a physical, psychological and cultural barrier that Chae experienced since she moved to the United States. Braiding organic and biological elements into her geometrical abstractions. The animal skin, blood vessels, blood cells, DNA, flower petals, leaf veins, and tree branches appear frequently in her recent work as metaphorical imagery as well as a counter-balancing element. 

Salcmannova’s projects span the fine arts, experimental installation and fashion. Mixing different media allows her to transgress categories that traditionally define a work of art. The two large sculptures named ‘Blue Coral’ are made from silicone dresses she created for the New York Fashion Week at Pier59 Studio, and the Los Angeles Fashion Week. The pieces were also used in numerous photoshoots and music videos. After all these events, she melted and reworked them, resulting in the pieces now on view.

Our current exhibition NO MAN’S LAND searched to describe the organic nature of the universe. Each artist has created a unique platform from which to view and depict the cosmos.