Akiyuki Ina: Emitting Evanescent Beauty

Feb. 16th – Mar. 6th
Opening Reception: Feb. 20th, 7-10pm

left: “Empty Attention” I, tape, light and paint on wood, 96x 36x 36″
right: “New Ruin”, photograph, 25 x 14 x 2″

Due to the mortgage crisis of 2007, there is a preponderance of buildings whose construction has been indefinitely halted. Inspired by these ghostly structures, Ina has created an installation at OPEN SOURCE GALLERY that communicates his admiration for the strange beauty and evanescent nature of this unfolding process. These works utilize elements such as safety net coverings and lighted panels to recreate the fleeting clarity of these abandoned “monuments”.

*Three dimension works will be exhibited along with documentary
photographs taken from 2008 to the present.

Ondrej Brody & Kristofer Paetau: PAINTING CHINA NOW

March 6th -April 3rd
Opening: March 6th: 7-10pm

Painting China Now is a collection of thirty new oil paintings by Ondrej Brody & Kristofer Paetau. These works, depicting instances of violence inflicted by the Chinese government upon their own citizens, are rendered with a breathtaking realism. Such masterful craft and handling of paint has become alien to the west, specifically in our contemporary arts, provoking the artists to commission a professional Chinese craftsman via the internet to realize the paintings for a cheap price and to import them to Europe. The results are beautiful, seductive and desirable works whose motivation, through suggesting ‘painterly qualities’, is in fact to embody the realities of capitalist profit and political oppression in a painting.

The following pictures are an overview of the exhibition that took place at KIOSK (Ghent, Belgium) mid december 2007 until mid january 2008 as well as studio shots of each painting. If you wish to discover more about the depicted subjects please follow the link which was the source for our project:

Rachel Youens

April 3rd – May 5th
Opening Reception: April 10th, 7-10pm

The painting cycles ‘Cornucopias,’ ‘Caves,’ and ‘Constructions’ all reflect my investigation into themes of loss and abundance. They are poetic allegories that portray the panoply of nature, the labor of transformation between nature and culture, and the complexities of affluence.

Patricia Watwood: Portraits 2010

May 7th – June 2nd, 2010

The tradition of portraiture is 3000 years old. What do we look like? Who are we and what does our presence signify in this world at this moment? These paintings invite you to consider who we are, and what our experience here means, to you, and to me.