The Contemporary Art Modern Project will be kicking off the new year with three exhibitions running alongside each other in the gallery. A new concept to the gallery, we will be launching our own Incubator Space beginning with a section of works from Joanna Ambroz and Magdalena Zych as they explore nature, both human and biological in Human/Nature. Each of the three exhibitions offer the viewer to experience five different artistic expressions all reacting to the world in which they inhabit.
Opening January 3rd and running through the month, we also invite visitors to an Artist Talk on January 25 from 1:00 to 5:00 with an in-person interview with Jason Micheal Hackenwerth and Andrew Arocho where they will speak not only about their artworks and process but also their journey as artists.
Launching our incubator space, artists Joanna Ambroz and Magdalena Zych may appear to explore very different topics upon a first glance, where in reality what they both explore is nature - both human and the natural in Human/ Nature. Balancing personality as a marker of nature between the two artists leads Ambroz to explore the internal where Zych infuses the natural environment with suggestive eroticism representing the external. Considering both personality and the erotic, what is and what is not, the viewer can see that when combined these artists forge a pathway into very human considerations, even though their artistic vocabulary relies on different symbols. Considering also that for one to understand human nature, and nature itself - they should recognize that these ideas are composed notions that rely on both a sense of separation and connection - and by taking this suggestion, one can see that when placed side by side both Ambroz and Zych create a balance in their approaches.
For example, Ambroz composes stark landscapes of personality and the internal, shutting out all distraction but for the titles she employs - which when placed against the canvas, may confuse one. But, it is the idea of silencing distraction and focusing on both her painterly manner and topic that allows, finally, a true sense of exploration into how the title is translated into the finished work - and how that moment is part of what it means to be human.
When dissecting the works of Zych, as stated there is an abundant sense of the erotic, which is a label affixed to that which imbues fertility and reproduction, but what is key to her work is the idea of flourishing, blooming, erupting and all that is needed for any of those actions to happen. Taking the silencing of distraction and flavoring that silence with the opportunity for renewal is finally how these two topically different artist are able, when joined together to offer insight into how varied and unpredictable nature, both in the natural world and in humans is really what makes existence interesting.
