Lorimoto Gallery is pleased to start off the New Year with an exhibition - Fractures in Serenity featuring artworks by Habby Osk and Minako Iwamura.
Habby Osk is a sculptor who’s engages gravity into her work. Simple geometric masses in form of a sphere , cylinders and cubes are carefully balanced and displayed. Viewers are confronted with precarious compositions that can easily become disrupted. Each sculpture is a sensitive composition of balance andstability. Osk’s work is a contrast of permanence and frailty. Objects cast in concrete possessing stability and weight are placed in a manner that could be lead to destruction with the slightest change of weight distribution. Osk’s sculptures are always under tension . A tension that suggest the fine line or the frailty that lies between quiescence and chaos. Osk is originally from Iceland and currently a recipient of the prestigious ISCP Studio program for 2020.
Minako Iwamura’s work is a delicate balance of serenity and emergence. Constellation like etchings and lines emerge on a background that resemble the sky at daybreak or at night. Each pattern is meticulously placed , some paying homage to her Japanese heritage. Iwamura’s paintings exude a spiritual undercurrent , as if the lines and patterns are the consciousness and the quiescent background is the unconscious. There is a strong presence of duality in her art . A stoic execution of parameters versus the intuitive free forming or nature versus geometry. A duality which illustrates the state that hovers in a precarious spot of in-betweenness and the untethered.
Both artists are stylistically diverse, however both possess bi-cultural backgrounds and their works suggest a sensitive balance of two states. The unifying factor is the presence of a fine physical line - symbolically a force in which keeps the two states at an equilibrium. If serenity were a thin sheet of glass, Osk and Iwamura’s work represent a faint fracture present, yet staying dormant and maintaining the peace.
Fractures in Serenity will open on the 18th of January from 6PM and will be on view each weekend from 2-6PM or by appointment.
Lorimoto Gallery 1623 Hancock Street, Ridgewood, NY 11385
