Dwellers - Solo Exhibition, New York

Opening Reception: October 18, 6-8pm

On view: 10/18 - 11/18

E.TAY Gallery is pleased to present Dwellers, a solo exhibition of paintings by Lorella Paleni. Paleni’s work investigates the relationships between humans and animals. Her paintings are tangled scenes of encounters in the wild that invite viewers to grapple with their own ecological consciousness.  

 Through a process of overlapping, erasing, adding and scraping, dynamic landscapes emerge on Paleni’s canvases. Colors and compositions are arranged in a conflicting manner that evokes both mysticism and sinister intent. While the natural environment dominates the pictorial landscape, ambiguous human characters invade the settings to disrupt the harmony.

 In Dwellers, gloved human hands, ghostly industrious figures, monkeys, branches, and other beings inhabit the paintings. The foreground and background intersect with the creatures in an inextricable mesh illustrating that, despite the estrangement between human and nonhuman worlds, they are invariably part of an intricate whole.

 Paleni’s paintings are an attempt to question the power structure that lies at the root of our reasoning to question human exceptionalism and imagine new possibilities of existence in the world. The work seems to acknowledge that society is hierarchical, and that the few who rise to the top often do so at the expense of the voiceless.

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address: 39 White Street, New York, NY 10013

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Anthology 2017 at Charlie Smith London

Private View & Prize Giving: Thursday 03 August 6.30-8.30pm

CHARLIE SMITH LONDON | 336 Old St, Shoreditch, London EC1V 9DR

336 Old Street, London EC1V 9DR, United Kingdom | +44 (0)20 7739 4055 | direct@charliesmithlondon.com | www.charliesmithlondon.com | @CHARLIESMITHldnWednesday–Saturday 11am–6pm or by appointmentANTHOLOGYOpen Call Prize ExhibitionPRIVATE VIEW Thursda…

336 Old Street, London EC1V 9DR, United Kingdom | +44 (0)20 7739 4055 | direct@charliesmithlondon.com | www.charliesmithlondon.com | @CHARLIESMITHldn

Wednesday–Saturday 11am–6pm or by appointment

ANTHOLOGY

Open Call Prize Exhibition

PRIVATE VIEW Thursday 03 August 6.30-8.30pm

EXHIBITION DATES Friday 04 August – Saturday 19 August 2017

GALLERY HOURS Wednesday-Saturday 11am-6pm or by appointment

 CHARLIE SMITH LONDON announces its seventh edition of the annual juried exhibition Anthology.  Ten finalists will be exhibited

at CHARLIE SMITH LONDON in August 2017 and one winner will receive a £2,500 cash prize and will be profiled on Artlyst. The

winner announcement will take place during the private view on August 3rd .

Selected and curated by internationally respected art world professionals, Anthology is a multi-disciplinary exhibition that reaches

out democratically to artists worldwide. The 2017 jury is Kate Bryan (Art Historian, Curator, Broadcaster), Matthew Collings (Artist,

Writer), Faye Dowling (Curator, Editor, Producer), Zavier Ellis (Gallery Director, Curator, Collector) and Bert Moore (Collector).

The 2017 finalists are:

Tae Eun Ahn

Helen Bermingham

Claudia Carr

Graham Crowley

Luigi Francischello

Giulia Lanza

Steve Moberly

Margaret O’Brien

Lorella Paleni

Jay Rechsteiner

Presented at the CHARLIE SMITH LONDON gallery in Shoreditch, London, the exhibition will continue to be a key barometer of

emerging and established talent, and will continue to provide unforeseen opportunities to artists. Previous winners and finalists

have enjoyed notable success as a direct result of their inclusion in Anthology, having been curated into significant exhibitions;

placed in prominent private collections; and represented by CHARLIE SMITH LONDON.

Previous winners are Tom Ormond (painting), Eric Manigaud (drawing), Robert Crosse (video), Florian Heinke (painting), Ben

Woodeson (sculpture / installation), Beatrice Haines (installation / mixed media) and Eva Masterman (ceramic / sculpture).

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Magic + Love x Art

Magic + Love x Art Curated by Larissa Kikol

Opening reception: Friday, February 17th at 6 PM - 9 PM

We are pleased to present the works of 10 artists in this group exhibition curated by Larissa Kikol.

ABETZ & DRESCHER
DR. JOHANNES ALBES
STEFANO BOSIS
FREDERIKE VON CRANACH
GIUSEPPE GONELLA
TIMO KLÖPPEL
DANIEL LANNES
ERIK NIEMINEN
LORELLA PALENI
SADIE WEIS

The square root of “magic” plus “love” multiplied by “art squared” is an amusing equation that allows one to contemplate artworks that conjure the unknown. Traditionally magic was, in essence, a transformation — taking something less valuable and making it remarkable. The works in this group exhibition are infused with a cathartic spirit and vision of the universe that is expansive, always in motion and open to mystery. The message embedded in the tongue-in-cheek formula, that is the exhibition’s title, suggests that the artist’s role is to find inspiration in the unusual and to create enigmatic and thought provoking works. Artists are everyday shamans, their strategy and artistic process is to construct riddles out of the world.