Ki-Smith Gallery:
Angelica Yudasto
@ayudasto
Angelica Yudasto is a multi-disciplinary artist interested in impressions of the body and the vulnerability evoked in what is easily shattered and dissolved. When she makes arrangements, the environment shifts. Her works are temporary recreations of her internal psyche using fragmented forms and the residual. Yudasto's responses to the space are recorded in the site-sensitive installation. Her pieces are momentary and transient.
Recently, she has been experimenting with flame-worked glass and digitally printed fibers to expand on her internal meditations in reaction to physical space. The work is naturally autobiographical in how they behave as mappings and tracings of her memories, attraction to soft objects, to drawing, to translucency, and to mirroring.
Yudasto was Born in Lima, Peru, and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia. She eventually made her way to Miami, Florida where she has participated in group shows including exhibitions at the Wynwood Art District for the Wet Heat Project during Basel week. She has also been included in group shows at the Blackfish Gallery in Portland, OR as well as been invited to be at the Art on the Vine Art Auction at the Portland Art Museum. Past residencies include Haystack Mountain School of Craft and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation.
About her Work:
What happens if the body’s inner anxieties and fragilities are reflected into our surroundings? Do they begin to look like trash, are they sharp, are they bulbous, do they look like floating echoes of silenced screams? The nuance of shadows and layering in the silk fabric adds to the confusion of what is digitally printed and what is layered. The degree of what can be seen moves back and forth in a way that complicates the source of the complete image. The glass arrangements next to it adds to how the atmosphere is fractured by implication. The resulting image offers little glimpses and remnants of trauma, personal memory or a happening.
Featured Artist: Kiyomi Taylor
Kiyomi Quinn Taylor (b.1995) is an artist born and raised in South Orange, New Jersey.
Taylor received her BFA from New York University in 2017 and her MFAfrom Columbia University in 2020.
Her work examines her family’s narrative history,as well as, iconography of her mixed race heritage - Black and Japanese.
Taylor isa mixed media artist - working in drawing, painting, installation, video andperformance.
She uses these mediums to meditate on time travel, ancestralmemory, and the chaotic force of love.
She currently lives in Harlem.
Social Media: @kiyomitay
Website: http://www.kiyomitaylor.com
Fu Dogs, 2019
Oil on Canvas, Fabric Trim, Found Curtains, Yarn
72” x 80”
Two dead, beloved family dogs standing sentinel on soft pillars. These two works are inspired by Chinese guardian lions and made in the larger-than-life likenesses of dogs previously protected and cared for by the family of the artist. Instead of standing on either end of the threshold to a family’s home they are intended to hang indoors in defense of a family’s spiritual life. This work is about protection, the transformative power of death, and love’s ability to transcend it.
Featured Artist: Ryan Bock
Ryan Bock specializes in painting, drawing, puppetry, animation and experimental film methods. Bock’s practice is rooted in a need for narrative structure. Residing somewhere between mythology and nightmare, Bock depicts mise-en-scène riddled with symbology and allusions both cinematic and painterly. Maintaining a fascination for shape, shade, shadow, structure and optical illusion, Bock deconstructs his subject matter into often barely-recognizable delineations and structurally unsound repetitive patterns. By consistently contrasting historical subjects with those of the present, and using the recurring patterns found to generate predictions about our future—a process he refers to as ‘dusty futurism’—Bock propels his audience to reconsider the routine human experience and discloses the illusions implemented to keep them from questioning. @bockhaus
Exhibition Informations:
Originally exhibited in 2019 at Ars Necronomica, a group exhibition at Providence Art Club organized by the Lovecraft Arts and Science Council.
In Bock’s signaturepalette of black, white, and grey, this abstracted surrealist composition is inspired by the stories of American horror writer H.P. Lovecraft.