new york NEW YORK
layers of paper build up in charles CLARY’S compositions to appear as mutant rose windows hiding behind gallery walls. the color gradient created by the changing shades within the stacks amplifies their depth and gives the clusters a pop as they replicate and spread across the room.
seoul KOREA
fictitious biological beings existing in a timeless flux characterize the work of u-ram choe. kinetic sculptures bear the names and narratives of classic scientific rhetoric while breathing and floating into metallic sunsets. entrails of nuts and bolts and wings of razor-sharp steel shift through a multitude of realities in model, drawing, and diagrammatic form. somehow simultaneously familiar and otherworldly, the creatures of u-ram choe possess a compositional flow contrasted by their mechanical limbs. insects look like dragons and birds like sea creatures unified through an exquisite conglomeration of cells and scales into new hybridized scientific classifications of form and movement, nature and machine.
manchester ENGLAND
richard SWEENEY utilizes the pliability of ordinary paper in his search for form. stemming from an interest in origami as a child, sweeney explores intricacy as it emerges through folding and creasing. by taking cues from growth principles and his love of trees, his work often references the organic through unique interpretations. this work demonstrates the potential of capturing volume through the manipulation of surface and sheet material.
