IMAGINE
Opening Reception
Friday, JANUARY 17TH, 2020
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through MARCH 6
Kai Lin Art is pleased to announce our first exhibition for 2020 : IMAGINE exhibiting from January 17th through March 6th. IMAGINE is a four artist group exhibition that features the works Greg Noblin, Elliston Roshi, Stan Clark, and Kevin Palme.
The artwork of IMAGINE encompasses a diverse range of mediums and techniques with the underlying themes of imagination through childhood impossibilities and daydreams (Greg Noblin), imagination of abstract expressionist universes (Elliston Roshi), imagination of storytelling and folklore (Stan Clark), and imagination of fragility and impermanence through the exploration of ice cubes (Kevin Palme).
This latest body of work by Greg Noblin delves further into childhood memories of imagination. The narrative of his storybook scenes conjure up ideas of elation, connection, and whimsy. Using textures to create a sense of nostalgia, Noblin incorporates the stitching of gridded panels divided into even squares then reconstructed into a whole image. The result is a meshing of the artificial with the organic. The animals in his series act as a contemporary allegory for the viewer’s imagination.
Elliston Roshi returns to the gallery with this collection of a re-imagination of the ancient idea that an image floats in multiple spaces simultaneously. Each work of art is a shadowbox of the space between the viewer and painter, foreground (glass) and background (gesso panel), the macro and micro worlds of nature’s elements. The result of the organic with the geometric pigmented shapes and fluid movements result in a transitory state of flux. Elliston explores a range of colors and interplay of forms creating a symphony of dappled space, an imagined expression of abstraction.
Stan Clark explores the connection between memory, storytelling and imagination with this new body of artwork. Using heavyweight sheets of rag paper, like pages torn from a giant storybook, Clark recasts well-worn allegories from literature and folklore into a contemporary light. From pop-graphic interpretations of Greek Mythology and freshly animated illustrations of Oscar Wilde’s fables, recognizable settings and landscapes are reimagined as both familiar and otherworldly. Lustrous views of Georgian wilderness are rendered in neon-violet tones while luminous impressions of cityscapes are depicted in a series of overlapping impressions like the dazzling firework displays.
Ice painter Kevin Palme returns to the gallery to explore the impermanence as our only constant. We live in a world defined by change at every turn from mundane daily occurrences to seasonal transitions of birth and death. For Palme, painting feels permanent. A tower of ice cubes is, of course fragile and impermanent. It is a structure designed to fail and in doing so return to a prior state. While earlier iterations of the ice cubes were black and white, color has played an increasingly important role in the work encouraging new ideas and interpretations of the subject matter to emerge. Color imbues the work with a sense of history and ambience. Each palette carries a memory with it, creating opportunities for dialogue, remembering, and imagining possibilities.
