Negotiating Diaspora: From The Personal To The Universal
5 March 2021 — 18 April 2021This grouping of artists presents a multi-vocal mosaic of spaces that are at once deeply personal and at the same time reflective of universal lived experience. While distinct in their subject matter and form, what draws these artists together are the prevalent universal themes of migration, spirituality, socio-politics, and landscape. And through these themes, these artists undertake a forensic examination of difference as they negotiate change and parlay it into compelling aesthetic form. The art in this exhibition is powerful. Featured artists are WW Hung, Shireen Kamran, Chung-Im Kim, Andrew Lui, Viktor Mitic, Shani Mootoo, Derya Ozparlak, Ivo Stoyanov, Catherine Vamvakas Lay, and Dmitry Yuzefovich. A close examination of difference, often and surprisingly, will reveal similarity. In this exhibition the notion of universal is reconciled with the notion of difference. In the high modern era of abstract expressionism that aimed toward the universal, difference was excluded, the hand of the artist erased. Here it is not. This exhibition draws attention to the value of the unique visual vocabulary of each artist and reveals that difference is universal, that personal is universal. Exhibition Description PDF.
Installation
Artwork
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Tethered 1/9 WW Hung $8,000 -
Self Portrait (Selfie) Viktor Mitic $7,000 -
Whitehouse Kennedy Viktor Mitic $7,000 -
Safe Harbour Viktor Mitic $28,000 -
Marc Viktor Mitic $8,000 -
Indy Grab WW Hung $7,500 -
The Sum of All Parts No 22 Shireen Kamran $4,800 -
Saudade No 21 Shireen Kamran $5,800 -
Pomegranate with Casing Catherine Vamvakas Lay $2,800 -
Four Pomegranate Seeds Plus One Catherine Vamvakas Lay $4,900 -
From the Earth: Red Seeds Catherine Vamvakas Lay $5,800 -
Vivid Blue No 31 Ivo Stoyanov $8,500 -
Equal Neutrals No 1 Ivo Stoyanov $8,500 -
Dark Orange No 41 Ivo Stoyanov $8,500 -
Mutation 10 Chung-Im Kim $2,500 -
Lake Opinicon Shani Mootoo $3,400 -
County Rd. 28 Shani Mootoo $3,400 -
Gold Top Viktor Mitic Sold -
Yearning 1/9 WW Hung Sold -
The Sum of All Parts No 23 Shireen Kamran Sold -
The Sum of All Parts No 21 Shireen Kamran Sold -
Door No 50 Dmitry Yuzefovich Sold -
Red Tricycle Dmitry Yuzefovich Sold -
Red Umbrella Dmitry Yuzefovich Sold -
Anthem Andrew Lui Sold -
Being Timelessness as it is to Time II Andrew Lui Sold -
Epic of Darkness Andrew Lui Sold -
Flight to Egypt IV Andrew Lui Sold -
Mutation 7 Chung-Im Kim Sold -
Nalgae Chung-Im Kim Sold -
Tumsae Chung-Im Kim Sold -
White Sand 1 Chung-Im Kim Sold -
White Sand 2 Chung-Im Kim Sold -
Blue is My Colour Derya Ozparlak Sold -
Redline Derya Ozparlak Sold -
You Are All You Have Got Derya Ozparlak Sold