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| Click HERE to see the whole show online |
To see the Joseph Park show click HERE.
To see the Marco Mazzoni show click HERE.
Roq La Rue Gallery
presents
Joseph Park
" Pureheart "
new paintings
and
Marco Mazzoni
" River of Milk "
new work
Opens Friday October 12th 6-9pm
show runs through November 3rd.
Roq La Rue is pleased to present two solo shows for the month of October.
We are very pleased to present a solo show by Seattle artist Joseph Park. A masterful painter with several successful shows and museum exhibitions under his belt, including the Frye Art Museum and the Portland Art Museum. Joseph will be unveiling a new series of works in which he presents a new painting style called "Prizmism".
The approach is a hybrid of two concepts, creating a collusion in which organic forms are viewed through the lens of technology and digitization, referencing the new ways we are coming to see the world.
Park has been inspired by both the writings of J.G. Ballard’s ‘A Crystal World' - a world in which life is suspended in perpetual stasis, as well as essays on the New Aesthetic, a current theme in cultural criticism that explores the eruption of the digital.
At it's heart, Prizmism is achieved through a series of paint layers. Each layer, while containing different visual information, combines with the other to reveal a deeper, richer image once the viewer becomes immersed in the paintings. This is his first show in Seattle in years and we are beyond thrilled to be hosting this dynamic painter at Roq La Rue.
We will also be exhibiting Italian artist Marco Mazzoni. Mazzoni creates beautifully disturbing drawings, dreamlike snapshots of faces flooded in an incandescent light as if in an overexposed photograph, and encircled by sumptuous flora and fauna. Using the symbology of the flowers and animals he depicts, Mazzoni references the ancient myths of feminine power and the remaining fragments of previously suppressed holistic wisdom from his homeland. His work is completely rendered in layered colored pencils, giving a muted stain glass quality to his rapturous yet witchy imagery. Despite his work being in vast demand this is his first US solo show and we are pleased to welcome him to the gallery.
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