“If Only a Wave”, a solo exhibition of Emily Roysdon in New York city east Houston street, which was curated by David Everitt Howe. The composition of the artwork is related to the idea of gestalt. Every piece of the element on the clock creates powerful orientations that clearly direct to a specific position. One of the clock hands has similar movement and lighter blue compares to the topside of the upside down triangle, which perfectly make the connection between each element of the clock and show a contrast of acting and stabling (the line movements and the freezing time).
Clocks are placed horizontally next to each other as repetition about twenty times, making strong cohesion with imposing direction forces. The smooth texture with a little bit reflection of viewers; the calm and cold royal blue base, light blue and snowy white clock hands; the unseen time; the stagnant of clocks, create a moment that manifest a way for self-observation. The frozen moment and self-reflection help viewers to look at things that had been changed, a live story of yourself and everything around you. All the things are turned into something different, until you look at yourself and a frozen time together, you can easily notice what had been so different. As we cannot say the exact time the clock displays, there is a range of possible time it could be, which also represent things that you had experienced might not as clear as the original moment. People are losing their memories and forgetting themselves.
“Brazil” is a mixed media artwork on canvas, was created by Nobu Fukui in 2012. Now it is exhibited in SEE ME FEEL ME, a Gallery on 23rd street. The color is the dominant spot to look at in this piece. The colors are not just put randomly but in a different rhythm from the middle white keep expanding out with stronger and darker blue, which looks like universe and a feeling of mystery. Each circle in the work has connections with each other, which makes the whole image holonomic. The artist is using the three primary colors (yellow, red, blue) help to keep the color in balance and dominant to reduce distraction. It is really interesting that the white circle is kind of providing negative shapes, whereas each of the pearl pin is painted a white dot, this connection is also the subdominant in the artwork. All the circles create very powerful unifying force and playing with color and line stroke variations that transform the image from two to three dimensions.
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