No Reason for Such Moments to End - Eric, Anahita Bagheri, Flaviu Cacoveanu, Cecile Chong, Forrest Eagle D'Olympia, Josh Feigin, Calvin Kim, Noah Pica, Sun You, Sun Young Park
Opening: July 11, 6-8 PM
Exhibition: July 11 - 26, 2024
SARAHCROWN is delighted to announce its summer exhibition, “No Reason for Such Moments to End.” This evocative exhibition features the work of ten artists from diverse backgrounds, united by a shared desire to immortalize fleeting, memorable moments through their art.
In the words of curator and artist William Kim:, “Amidst one summer, we recognized one another like birds do notice traffic lights, or more so clouds… we drew along the veins of our eyes and there, we shaped a creek which dabbled melodies like daisy chains… we turned this into our forever hub... for that one-season-too-short-to-be-truly-called: summer.” This poetic reflection captures the essence of the exhibition, where the lightness and playfulness of late summer nights and garden gatherings are explored alongside the eerie, heavy, slow-moving moments in between.
The exhibition offers an opportunity to reflect on the sense of personal connection and truth present in playful, experimental art practices.
Anahita Bagheri’s sculptures navigate our eyes within rawness, refinement, and destruction.The care with which the Iranian interdisciplinary artist treats her materials transforms solid steel into a foundation for blossom. A narration of her very own between abstraction and representation.
Calvin Kim’s paintings unveil, preserve and prolong intimate, whimsical moments, weaving absurdity, humor, and lightness into themes of melancholy and vulnerability.
Cecile Chong’s dreamlike tondos address ideas of cultural interaction and interpretation, emphasizing the commonalities humankind shares in their relationships with nature and one another .
Eric’s paintings echo the experience as dad of a new-born, his. The raw shapes, the unfinished, the surface level development, the saturated color palette, all are directly drawn from him eavesdropping on the pre-verbal sounds of his child.
Flaviu Cacoveanu’s distinctive photography combines wordplay and imagery, poignantly staging the ephemerality of life in humorous reflection upon the current state of our world.
Forrest Eagle D’Olympia’s paintings deal with the deconstruction of linearity and the multidimensionality of translated narratives. He utilizes paint to unlock personal and cultural mythologies, a portal that often enters the eerie and unutterable.
Josh Feigin’s bizarre figurations delve into the uncanny relationship between the reality-here and the subconscious-there; macabre glimpses of unspoken scenes.
Noah Pica’s practice explores the uniformity of quotidian objects that almost-unnoticed depict the mundane life. The works spotlight and aestheticize our man-made environments, a comment on how common objects stamp ideals, stereotypes and normativity.
Sun Young Park reveals images of distant and clear memory using flowing shiny and matte clay surfaces, activated with a pencil. Through these contrasting oppositions, they suggest the dualities of domesticity to nature, control to spontaneity, feminine to masculine, and East to West.
Sun You sources the shapes of her polymer clay works from the ephemeral nature of connections and the realm of linguistic translation; a lyrical language of abstraction at play - often born out of the experience of writing and translating between two languages (English and Korean).
William Kim’s curatorial practice streams alongside the motif of the playground, the sandbox and the treasure hunt. Their interest in these infantile elements of exploration lay in their communal nature for self-discovery and community-building.
“No Reason for Such Moments to End” invites visitors to embrace the playful, the personal, and the profound, composing a space to ponder within the ephemeral beauty of life and, herein the inherent vulnerability of their fleeting nature.
Join us for the opening reception on July 11, 2024 from 6 to 8 PM at SARAHCROWN Gallery. The exhibition will be on view until July 26, 2024 Wednesdays to Fridays, 12- 6pm, and by appointment.
SARAHCROWN
373 Broadway #215
New York, NY 10013
SUMMER HOURS: Wed-Fri 12-6 and by appointment
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