HIJINKS

HIJINKS

 

February 24 - March 22

opening reception Saturday, February 24, 4-6 pm

*The gallery is open for early previewing

 

 

JAVIER ARIZMENDI KALB

KIM FROHSIN

GENEVIEVE L’HEUREUX

JYLIAN GUSTLIN

 

 

Andra Norris Gallery is proud to present Hijinks — an exhibition featuring new paintings, assemblage, mixed media, and aquatint etchings from four contemporary artists who forge into the unknown with aesthetic bravery.

 

 

JAVIER ARIZMENDI-KALB

Mexican-American artist and internationally renowned architect Javier Arizmendi-Kalb’s abstract paintings are characterized by their pictorial structure of space and the relationship between line and color. A dynamic new series of assemblages — presented in plexiglass boxes — reflects the artist’s interest in formal issues of geometry, composition, color, abstraction, mass, volume, and shape. These small works are also explorations of the nature of various mediums, including found advertisements on cardboard, and they demonstrate his ability to further communicate signature painterly applications that consider the natural world as it intersects with utilitarian design. 

 

 

KIM FROHSIN 

Bay Area Figurative artist Kim Frohsin’s iconic Cautionary Tales series reflects on how technology is disrupting our world with a speed at which we cannot comprehend the repercussions. The series was created in reaction to the wholesale gentrification and neighborhood dislocations the artist experienced in her own beloved San Francisco in 2015, where changes in the name of societal advancement were occurring at a dizzying pace. The messages are universal, however, and not limited to San Francisco. Although the works make a bold statement, they are highly personal and directed with a quiet, guiding voice. 

 

 

GENEVIÈVE L’HEUREUX

We are delighted to exhibit for the first time the elegant work of printmaker Geneviève L'Heureux, whose methods and expertise include a variety of aquatint etching techniques, mezzotint, and chine collé. L'Heureux’s evocative works oscillate between opposing concepts that mirror the human condition. Fittingly, the works simultaneously induce a sense of meditative calm while being aesthetically destabilizing, in that they bring us away from the comfort of established norms and closer to our fundamental nature: one of continuous transformation.

 

 

JYLIAN GUSTLIN 

Jylian Gustlin explores how science and mathematics intersect with art in her abstract and representational mixed media paintings that she created with acrylic on wood panels and other media, including ink, gouache, pencils, and resins. She intuitively brings her ideas into being by immersing herself in the complex themes that form the basis of her process-driven work.

 

 

 

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