Friday 26th, 1-5 PM, 2024 | Saturday 27th, 1-5 PM | Sunday 28th 1-5 PM
Curated by Diego Ponce
After our successful launch in May 2024, Taylor and Ponce Contemporary is now delighted to present our second group Studio Exhibition. Curated by Diego Ponce, this show features an exciting selection of cutting edge contemporary collages and paintings by the NYC artists we have worked with in recent years.
“Collage & Painting”
Text by: Isabel Taylor
Glen Gauthier unearths, channels and combines printed ephemera, his collage process serving as a form of time machine that both taps into his inner creative child and creates startling new art in the present. India Evans uses a similar creative process to resurrect memory and bring transformation into being. Describing her objects as ‘a vocabulary of feelings’, the artist uses the recycling and juxtaposition of apparently obsolete or forgotten objects to explore the stages of feminine awareness. The collages of Morgan Lapin are a chaotic, comedic, fertile funhouse mirror of his life as an artist and musician, bursting with his influences from Sci-fi and vintage horror to tiny worlds created within city trash.
Gary Schwartz combines a Social Realist practice of narrative painting with his own childhood memories. In ‘The Dutch Paint Company’ we see a group of Baroque gentlemen ranged in front of a roofscape of nostalgic NYC Americana, almost dream-like in its brightness and coloured shadows. The viewer is left to absorb the strange scene, or attempt to enter the artist’s psyche by disentangling its myriad visual allusions. Julia Foote depicts domestic scenes, full of traces of lives and people but largely unpeopled. Her hyper-patterned interior scenes, both imaginative and familiar, also serve to pull the viewer into a nostalgic American world which is both relieving and hypnotic.
In ‘The Devil of Hell’s Kitchen Wears PRADA’ GL Wood draws on his background in the music, fashion and celebrity world, combining collaged comic book textures with graceful, unnerving figures. Natalia Nieves, with training in fashion illustration at FIT, uses her intricate watercolour paintings to create contemplative visual spaces that offer a delicate exploration of the feminine experience, drawing on both reality and dreams. In her powerful painting ‘It could be me, it could be you’, presented in this show, Anna Hopfensberger depicts a woman with shaded face and strong hands and legs reaching towards a ripe basket of fruit; immersed by her own strength in the bright sunlight, rather than the male gaze.
Painters Olga Spiegel and Ayako Bando both draw on nature in their work, with different visions. Born and raised in Japan, Bando depicts the elements of earth, sky, mountains and rivers that she grew up immersed in. Over the course of a many decades long career, Olga Spiegel has developed the concept of ‘Psyche-Realism’ and the ‘Art of Pareidolia’. We will present her painting ‘A Cultural Filling Station’ which combines deep influences of psychedelia and the psychological and imaginative frontiers of computer-generation. In ‘Woman Doodle’ (described by the painter as a ‘giggle on embedded painting’) Broderick Price also draws on the visual and psychological impact of becoming an artist in Europe and America during the extreme social unrest of the 1960s. The painting seems to ripple and sensuously disintegrate before our eyes, creating a hyper-pigmented flux of natural and synthetic beauty and disquiet.
