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LEDC / Utility Works

An art exhibit featuring three Philadelphia-based artists. Marria Nakhoda , Cassie Renée Peña and Maria Fernanda Nuñez Alzate.

Utility Works - Creative Community, East Baltimore Avenue, Lansdowne, PA, USA

Material Variations Opening Reception Friday, February 16th 6:00-8:00pm Exhibit open February 16th - March 30th (Gallery open to the public Wed - Sat12:00-4:00pm) Kiosk Gallery at Utility Works - 32 E Baltimore Ave., Lansdowne, PA 19050 <a href="https://marrianakhoda.com/" title="https://marrianakhoda.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Marria Nakhoda</a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/hi_byeeeeeeeeeeee/?hl=en" title="https://www.instagram.com/hi_byeeeeeeeeeeee/?hl=en" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Cassie Renée Peña</a><a href="https://fernandanunez.com/" title="https://fernandanunez.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Maria Fernanda Nuñez Alzate</a> These artists approach material with a reverent comedy. An amphora half coated in to-go foil, the porcelain reminiscent of a cool brick of cream cheese. A ceramic stick fired in a wood kiln, burnished glossy by the burning of that which it represents. Hefty brushes casually splay their leg-like bristles toward one another, as if playing footsie. All three artists engage in material mimicry. Peña renders a classical greco-roman vessel form using non-western coiling methods. Nakhoda transforms clay–those preciously plastic fine grains of earth–back around into solid stone. Nuñez Alzate gestures dripping wax into a luscious broken egg white. In these works I find a particular affection for ordinary materials. Indeed, in their own words these three embrace the common, the overlooked, the mundane, the quotidian, the humble, the useless, the provisional. They cannily mix high and low, industrial and intimate, ancient and contemporary. The effect is an equalizing of media. The mundane is uplifted, the special is grounded. Material as material. - Zach Ozma, curator

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