PRESS RELEASE
REDS TO_BLUES
curated by William Norton
September 3 through September 27, 2020
Opening Reception: Thursday September 3 from 6-9 pm
3 Women’s Thoughtful Landscapes During Lockdown
Rejoice: even during this time of dangerous isolation, when the safest conditions to exist and advance have been fostered by female leaders around the globe, 3 indomitable, very ambitious women here in the NYC area have been singing their
curated by William Norton
in paint and resins and repurposed materials, and have been running the scales: from being as coolly provocative as Sarah Vaughn to as unconquerably on fire as Tina Turner. “Nasty” women, whose talents and intelligence have been fiercely battling and slaying these silly dragons of misogyny, discrimination, and testosterone fueled ignorance, simply by working in their studios to create their powerful works.
Each of these artists already work within a form of abstracted landscape, either visually or philosophically interpreted. During this Covid19 Lockdown they were forced to recognize their separation from the natural world outside their windows and what has been their studio world they naturally exist within, with eyes focused on new possibilities.
Yukari Edimitsu is Japanese and typically works in oil on canvas as she renders the emotional resonance of a remorseless celestial landscape, has brought fresh urgency and scale to her new work. While exploring the violent clash of the moment with the enhanced strictures of current life she has exploded and expanded her gifts into multi paneled complexities.
Etty Yaniv is Israeli and typically works with repurposed materials, faced her new restrictions by choosing to create one new small scale landscape each day, capturing her changing sense of time, windows that ereflected her interior space, the fluidity of time in this new reality, creating a cataclysmic outpouring much like JMW Turner.
JiJi Ryoo is South Korean and has coolly focused her eyes inward, pouring blue resins in subtlety whispered layers, repeating and dancing along with the edges of her panels, that calmly entrance the viewer, like looking from within the heart of slowly revealing glacier. The geometry of the square feels more organic and welcoming than it would in less gifted hands, She embraces her viewer and intimately welcomes them inside.
Featuring:
Yukari Edamitsu
@yukariedamitsu
Etty Yaniv
@etty.yaniv
JiJi Ryoo
@jijiryoo
curated by:
William Norton
@norton_william
Reds to Blues
-the gallery LTD-(PeepShow Space -a pop up)
Opening Thursday September 3 from 6-9 pm
Running through Saturday September 27
37 North 15th Street
Williamsburg Brooklyn 11222
On the Gem Street Side
The exhibition will be able to be viewed from the street Thursdays and Fridays from 12-6 pm. Saturdays and Sundays the gallery will be open to accept small groups of people at a time from 12-6 pm & small tours can be given on demand by contacting William Norton as listed below.
This will be socially distanced exhibition and
Attendees Must Wear a Mask and Maintain 6’ of distance from others.
The exhibition will be visible through the glass frontage but small parties of up to 6 people can be accommodated at a time.
for more information please contact:
William Norton
creativemyth@hotmail.com
917.407.6124
