Alchemical Reactives

Like the early Alchemists whose first practitioners wrought scientific magics by candlelight, mixing beakers with the elements of fire, air, water, and earth in an attempt to understand how nature and our base instincts could be elevated and transmuted into a celestial gold, Sonomi Kobayashi and David Miller each search our interior heavens, concoct magical excursions with beakers and mixtures of inks and paints and joyfully give us transmuted gold.

David Miller is a consummate storyteller, in the dry Texas tradition. As an alchemist I see him more in the guise of Mickey in the Sorcerer’s Apprentice, enjoying the wonders that the magical fires released from his fingertips bring forth in an unanticipated chaos, while the humor of the situation he’s put himself into plunges his audience into laughter, he frolics around stacking the dishes and spreading his images in inks of joy. Though dressed up in an adult’s raiments the mischievous and constantly intrigued child never leaves the room. Circuit boards and plants are wired to spark imaginative and fertile discussions.

Sonomi Kobayashi brings forth broad and intricate visions of life gained through meditation and her deeply understood painting process. Though thoroughly modern, with her absorption of both Eastern and Western artistic traditions, she could as easily have navigated the shamanist world, firing various midnight magics from the night sky onto our temple walls. Seeing what shapes the galactic cosmos expanding outward as the capillaries that carry air and nutrients within all she intricately paints with various inks and paints her mind’s eye as it’s centered within her. She births these works as a loving and generous gift for those lucky enough to be in their presence.

Opening Friday 2/20/2021 from 6-9 pm

open Saturdays and Sundays from 12-6 pm

-the gallery LTD-(PeepShow Space)

37 North 15th Street

Brooklyn, NY 11222

(corner of Gem Street)

curated by William Norton