Artist in Residence at Catwalk Institute during June 2018.
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Monograph hardcover published on occasion of the solo exhibition "Dwellers" at the E.Tay Gallery of New York, October 18th-November 18th, 2017. Critical text by Natasha Marie Llorens
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Dwellers at E.Tay Gallery, NYC - Installation view
Dwellers - solo exhibition Installation view
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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.
email: etaygallery@gmail.com
address: 39 White Street, New York, NY 10013
Hours: Wed - Sat: 12 - 6pm
Create Magazine Issue VI
Find my work on Create Magazine Issue VI, get your copy at https://createmagazine.store/products/create-magazine-issue-vi-pre-sale
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
Art das Kunstmagazin
Article 'Starter: Lorella Paleni' by Larissa Kikol on Art das Kunstmagazin
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.
Virtual to Physical: thepostdigitalprintmaker
Feb 1 – Feb 28
Manhattan Graphics Center
250 West 40 th Street 5 th Floor
New York, NY 10018
Reception and Artist Talks Feb 11, 6:30-8:30
Inquiries: events@ourownart.com
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