Two renowned artists explore the meaning of reality and clay
What do you think when you view your immediate surroundings? Are they simply backgrounds for your experiences? Or do they mean something more? This is what contemporary artist Nona Garcia ponders.
What about ceramics? Is it a hobbyist’s pleasure? Or a path to non-verbal communication between artist and viewer? With every subtle touch and change in the potter’s state of mind comes immortalisation in the form of minute grooves.
Answer these questions for yourself with Nona Garcia and Jon Pettyjohn’s latest exhibitions at the Silverlens Gallery from June 8 to July 1.
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Overland
With an art practice that spans two decades, Nona Garcia examines the essence of things—investigating the contrast between the transparent and concealed, the framed and natural, the sublime and the everyday. For her latest solo exhibition, Garcia combines subject, style, and concept to bring images that place viewers in the obscure yet colossal aspirations of the real.
Garcia’s journey across virtual landscapes comes from a specific place—one of great importance to her—Baguio. In Overland, she depicts the visible world with abstractions of objects, relics, and phenomena. Some might find it odd, ordinary or bizarre, but one thing rings true. Nothing is inconsequential. What you see is a memorialisation of the land that seeks its beauty.
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