Hermes Berrio, A Golden Day , 2023
Chelsea Industrial
Booth 35
Tickets available through VOLTA's website
Thursday - Saturday | 12 - 8 pm Sunday | 12-5 pm
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Join The CAMP Gallery's as the latest attendance to VOLTA brings to life the motifs of realism, from September 4 - 8th at the Chelsea Industrial building in New York.
The life we live day to day is enraptured by the need to fulfill our ideals. Realistic or not, we pursue an ever-growing list of the “what could be”, and that gives us the drive to continue our personal growth day to day. The realistic view on these aspirations, of course, are sometimes sad and encompassing in their absolute truths. Why then, do we not take as much time to appreciate the beauty of this perspective of realism, both within that sadness and grittiness, alongside the complexities of our nature and personalities? Artists Joanna Ambroz, Hermes Berrio, Seth Ellison, Michael Sylvan Robinson, and Magdalena Zych see the world through both lenses, using realism in all paths of life as their true underlying motifs inside their form and reason among their artworks.
The underlying nature that the world through our eyes and mind in a present moment can be a spectacular dive into the changing psyche of each individual is felt through each piece. Joanna Ambroz’s bicolor self portraits bring forth the emotions of tension and harmony as two sides of the same coin. Hermes Berrio’s approach to the mundane aspects of life, highlighting them as you would royalty. Seth Ellison’s surreal representations tell a tale of a culture of meritocracy that institutes a predominant sense of failure simultaneously as a facade of success. Michael Sylvan Robinson approaches a level of mysticism in their works that embody a struggle of gender and queerness still not accepted in a modern society. Magdalena Zych fills her pieces with the viscerality of nature’s forms, both magnificent and grotesque in their sensual appearance, seeking the true future of a coexistence.
We should allow ourselves this moment of relief, from a constant need to seek a return on our investment of time, emotion, and physical duress, and live for the earnestness of the reality we live in. It is not a rejection of hope and future, but an acceptance of a peace and present that is communicated by every work on the walls. To come to terms and accept the extravagance of reality in our day to day lives would do us more good for the future we wish to seek.
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