The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery invites you to our ARTIST TALK with Natalia Kolodzei Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

TIME IS LIGHT : Alexandra Dementieva, Anna Frants, and Raphaele Shirley MARCH 6 – MAY 18, 2024 ARTIST TALK with Natalia Kolodzei Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM   SWPK THE SYLVIA WALD & PO KIM GALLERY 417 LAFAYETTE STREET, 2ND FLOOR, NYC RSVP FOR OPENING

The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery invites you  to our Artist Talk on Tuesday, April 30th, which is held as part of the exhibition, Time Is Light, on view through May 18, 2024. Three media artists, Alexandra Dementieva, Anna Frants and Raphaele Shirley will discuss their works with moderator Natalia Kolodzei.

Time Is Light offers an exploration of the kinetic relationship between its two titular elements, featuring installations by three distinguished multimedia artists. In its usage of colors, luminosity, interactions, reflections, and movements of light, this installation opens a portal, evoking transient yet poignant moments. The works of these artists endeavor to celebrate the innate ability embedded in light for storytelling, communication, and affecting emotional change. Before scientists sought to systematize its behavior, and certainly before its existence was understood as an unsolvable problem in the world of quantum physics, light had already been heavily examined throughout history, as its natural mysticism allowed it a central role in many global mythological systems. Though contemporary society has all but disregarded a theology hinged upon deities of light reigning over the Earth, there remain lingering traces of this transcendence. This spectacular nature of light is central to the installations in Time Is Light. In these works, light is at once a medium through which time can be reflected and the means through which emotional and political change is allowed to occur.

Alexandra Dementieva, Breathless, 2024, Interactive installation, 39.37 x 39.37 x 78.74 inches

Alexandra Dementieva's Breathless imagines light as a function of time in the present moment, mapping online linguistic trends in real time. By allowing the glow of installation's lights to be altered when a participant breathes into an attached sensor, Dementieva emphasizes the malleability of the political landscape, as well as the agency of the human subject within it.

Anna Frants, Stories of Light, 2024, Robotics, flip books, pencil drawings and led lights, Dimensions varied

Anna Frants' contributions from her series Simple Pleasures, trace the moving image historically. These "stories of light" provide contemporary reanimations of one of humanity's oldest aspirations: capturing movement, and thus time, in light. Through moving images, Frants evokes a tradition which has evolved over millennia from the age of cave paintings and shadow puppets to the modern era of film, camera, and digital animation.

Raphaele Shirley, 3 Tone Ephemeral with sound composition by Rhys Chatham, 2024, Mixed Media, 240 x 48 x 144 inches

3 Tone Ephemeral, a sculpture in light by Raphaele Shirley, celebrates the vibrancy of time as experienced through the present moment. Light here intonates emotion and underlines duration through its sequential appearance of alternating wavelengths. Integrated into the piece are original compositions by minimalist composer Rhys Chatham. His sounds interplay with the color fields in an open-ended sequence. The installation envelops the viewer in an evolving sensorial environment through the weaving loop of colors and sounds, at once expansive and minimal.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS Alexandra Dementieva is a multidisciplinary artist born in Moscow and based in Brussels whose work incorporates sculpture, dance, music, cinema, and performance. Her installations demonstrate an interest in both technology and human psychology.         Anna Frants is an internationally acclaimed new media artist, curator, and art writer born in Leningrad, USSR and currently residing in Miami. She is a co-founder of the CYLAND Media Art Lab and the CYLAND Foundation, and is a leading voice in cultural dialogue surrounding experimental art. Born in Wisconsin and based in New York, Raphaele Shirley is an internationally recognized multi-media artist. Her oeuvre is an amalgam of sculpture, light, public art, and performance which sits at the intersection of art and technology. Through her work she explores the topics of physics, civilization through time, and finitude of existence.

ABOUT Natalia Kolodzei Natalia Kolodzei is an art curator and historian. Ms. Kolodzei is Executive Director of the Kolodzei Art Foundation established in 1991, and, along with Tatiana Kolodzei, owner of the Kolodzei Collection of Eastern European Art, containing over 7,000 artworks (paintings, sculptures, works on paper, photography, kinetic and digital art) by over 300 artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Ms. Kolodzei has curated over eighty art exhibitions in the US, Europe and Russia. She is an author and editor of multiple publications and organized and contributed to symposiums and panel discussions for universities and museums worldwide.

ABOUT SWPK SWPK—The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery— is a non-profit art foundation committed to promoting East-West cultural exchange through the arts by sponsoring and hosting art exhibitions of national and international artists. For more information visit: swpk.org Time Is Light is produced in collaboration with the Donghwa Cultural Foundation.

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Gallery One Twenty Eight: Musashino Consortium 2024 -Sixth Annul Exhibition-May 1 - 12, 2024 Opening Reception: Friday, May 3, 5 - 8pm

Musashino Consortium 2024 -Sixth Annul Exhibition-   May 1 - 12, 2024 Opening Reception: Friday, May 3, 5 - 8pm Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Saturday 1 - 6pm, Sunday 1 - 5pm   Musashino Consortium was established in 2017 by 14 artists in New York, by the alumni of Musashino Art University. Musashino Art University is an Art University in Japan founded in 1929. Our medium may vary such as paintings, sculpture, installations, photographs and multimedia, but we, who have left Japan long ago have found a significance in the opportunity to present our works in New York. This collaboration as a group symbolizes the transformation we have experienced in the midst American art and society.   Kana Handel. Miho Hiranouchi. Maho Kino. Ayane Kurai. Kunihiko Maehara. Mieko Mitachi. Hiroko Ohno. Mitsuya Okumura. Yasuko Okumura. Yoshimi Tanaka. Akemi Uehara. Junko Yoda. Toshihisa Yoda. Atsuko Mu Yuma. Painting by Miho Hiranouchi   onetwentyeight 128 Rivington Street (between Essex and Norfolk)  New York, NY 10002  galleryonetwentyeight.org #galleryonetwentyeight#fieartmagazone#fineartfun

Wally Gilbert Art is part of the Somerville Open Studios. See below

"Nets"  A 24" x 36" panel on a Flush Mount. Digital Sublimation Print on Aluminum with a Satin finish.   Wally Gilbert Will Open His Studio as part of Somerville Open Studios One Fitchburg Street Somerville, MA 20143 On Saturday and Sunday May 4th and 5th 12 to 6 pm Wally Gilbert's Studio is C319   "Red Diamond Peak"  A 36" x 24" panel on a Flush Mount Digital Sublimation Print on Aluminum with a Satin finish.   This is part of the Somerville Open Studios. Click here for general information. Click here for more Wally Gilbert information.   Click Here for a Virtual Gallery of the new work that will be shown.  See a Catalog of these new images by Clicking Here

"Green Nets"  A 24" x 36" panel on a Flush Mount. Digital Sublimation Print on Aluminum with a Satin finish.

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RGR Gallery Mexico exhibits Francisio Munoz works False Spiritual

FALSO ESPIRITUAL

Francisco Muñoz

20 de abril - 15 de junio, 2024

Galería RGR se complace en presentar la nueva exposición individual de Francisco Muñoz, Falso espiritual, la cual se inaugurará el próximo 20 de abril de 17:00 - 20:00 Hrs. Bajo la curaduría de Paola Santos Coy, esta exposición representa la continuación de la investigación artística de Muñoz, en la que, con un enfoque innovador, explora técnicas formales provenientes de diversas expresiones artísticas a lo largo del tiempo y de diferentes culturas. En Falso espiritual, Francisco Muñoz se adentra en la espiritualidad contemporánea para invitar al espectador a reflexionar en torno al significado y valor de las imágenes, inspirándose en momentos y lugares específicos de la historia, como la arquitectura y la escultura moderna en México, la pintura mural prehispánica y formas de objetos arqueológicos mesoamericanos, así como en referencias de otras culturas como la de Japón.

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Galería RGR is pleased to present Francisco Muñoz's new solo exhibition, False Spiritual, which will open to the public next April 20 from 17:00 - 20:00 H. Under the curatorship of Paola Santos Coy, this exhibition represents the continuation of Muñoz's artistic research, in which, with an innovative approach, he explores formal techniques from various artistic expressions over time and from different cultures. In False Spiritual, Francisco Muñoz delves into contemporary spirituality to invite the viewer to reflect on the meaning and value of the images, inspired by specific moments and places in history, such as modern architecture and sculpture in Mexico, pre-Hispanic mural painting and forms of Mesoamerican archaeological objects, as well as references from other cultures such as Japan.

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