Name: Opening Reception for Three New Exhibitions at Artspace111!
Start: 2022-05-12T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2022-05-12T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Artspace111

Opening Reception for Three New Exhibitions at Artspace111!

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Join Artspace111 | Opening Reception for Healing by Mihee Nahm, Marking Time by Robert McAn, and Solo Solo by Jason Bly! Thurs. May 12, 5-8

Healing | Mihee Nahm 
 In the Main Gallery. May 12, 2022 – June 25, 2022

Marking Time | Robert McAn
In the Great Gallery. May 12, 2022 – June 25, 2022

Solo Solo | Jason Bly
In the Solo Solo Space. May 12, 2022 – June 25, 2022
Artspace111 is honored to present three new exhibitions from May 12th through June 25th, 2022. These three exhibitions will all be held at 111 Hampton Street in the 3,000 square foot historic building. Although separate, these exhibitions emphasize the artistic merit in each other. “These three exhibitions experiment with what defines realism through oil paint. Although different in composition and subject matter, Nahm, McAn, and Bly reveal the extraordinary in everyday life. Through representations that mimic the real and the imagined, the exhibits present us with a reality we experience unconsciously every day.” – Margery Gossett, Gallery Owner and Director of Artspace111Healing by Mihee Nahm showcases everyday flora Nahm encounters on daily walks. What Nahm refers to as “marginalized greeneries,” compositions of trees, vines, and domesticated plants fill extremely dense oil paintings. What began as a photographic encounter, quickly turned to a digitally archived collection of interesting subject matter. Formal elements such as color, texture, light, shape, and form are selected and often digitally altered to communicate Nahm’s visual attraction while evoking a sense of longing. Starting with acrylic on a small scale, these images are drawn, and then a few are selected for life-sized renderings in oil. This labor-intensive way of creation emphasizes Nahm’s primary goal of mimesis. Although each individual painting goes through various approaches of fabrication, the consistency of added layers is evident throughout the entire series.Marking Time by Robert McAn brings forth the artist’s newest oil paintings and monotypes. This new work continues the artist’s exploration of the intersection between painting and photography. For the exhibition, McAn establishes the canvas ground with painterly photographic imagery. In contrast, the surface layer of the work in oil stick mimics the underlying structure of digital photography with its color blocks and pixels. Rapid and unique hand-painted monotypes are also exhibited as multiple and individual artworks. Solo Solo is an exhibition space awarded to the winner of the prior year’s Annual Texas Juried Exhibition. In 2021, Jason Bly’s oil on panel painting titled Suspension of Disbelief, won first prize. Through detailed surrealist paintings, Bly’s work examines the mundane through the lens of past predictions of the future dating from the 1950’s-1980’s. These forecasts found in scientific journals and science fiction, saw beyond the year 2000 to a variety of outcomes, whether hopeful or fearful of the future. These forecasts predicted space travel, new technologies, and stable life, while others predicted darker futures of nuclear annihilation, fear of the unknown, and a lack of natural resources.

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