Curated by Khang B. Nguyen, the just-closed exhibition at Wonzimer Gallery invited viewers to enter a new world of the mystical, spiritual and metaphysical with the exhibition.
A wide range of work from the sculptural to painted images shape an exhibit that looks both ethereal and mysterious. The sculptural work above from Sandeep Mukherjee (pictured with gallerist Alaia Parhezi) serves as an entry portal into a new space and time. Using a retired dancer as his subject, Mukherjee molded his glowingly otherworldly, fossil-like images from light aluminum.
Curator Khang B. Nguyen offers meditative paintings that are layered and complex as in his dimensionally fascinating work below. His sharp use of dimension is at play throughout the curation as well.
Other exhibiting artists include Russell Crotty, Tomory Dodge, Sharon Ellis, Nancy Evans, Lia Halloran, Charles Long, Linn Meyers, Patti Oleon, Lisa Wedgeworth, and Marcus Zuniga.
Summoning the spirit of 13th century Zen master Eihei Dogen, the art is a transformative experience, one that questions and embodies notions of time, space, and spirit, adding in compelling ideas about time and self, consciousness and a realm beyond it. This is a thoughtful and compelling exhibition thematically, with unique and often trippy art works that defy category.
Lia Halloran’s oil on wood spirals evokes an expanding universe…
Marcus Zuniga’s “Chuparosa” is multi-dimentional wall art that fractures and multiplies vision using reflective glass, acrylic, and aluminum.
Charles Long’s surreal and wonderful aluminum sculpture “Endinglessness,” dazzles with shapes rooted in fantasy and dusted with holographic glitter.
Linn Meyers’ large-scale acrylic on linen provides a blissful port of entry to a rift between rock and sky on the gallery’s back wall; while Russell Crotty’s suspended fiber glass sphere “Milky Way Over Hull Mountain,” below, shapes a hypnotic journey into the sky, one that is well-paired with Patti Oleon’s “Blue Circle Lobby.”
Melting with moonlight, Nancy Evans “untitled” acrylic on canvas, below, is a study in motion caught in stillness.
Each artist’s work gives out a meaningful vibration of art and spirit, in which the viewer’s “time being” can, at least for a moment, pause and refresh. If you missed entering this beautiful exhibition in person, the exhibition is available for viewing online in 3D on the Wonzimer website.
- Genie Davis; photos by Genie Davis