The Glassyard’s latest group exhibition weaves together into an organic and complementary narrative the work of four artists whose creative practice can be understood as a response to the inevitable and powerful emergence of their identity issues and existential conditions.
The work of all four artists can be characterized by a rich, organic, sprawling aesthetic, a biomorphic abstraction with sensitive details and deeply personal themes that often work to transcend a hard lived reality. All of them channel creative energies into their artwork that they cannot really experience elsewhere and for which a personal, irrepressible urge for self-expression is the restless inner source.
The intuitively assembled constellation of artworks on display at the Glassyard can also be interpreted as an encouragement to those experimenting with similarly rich and innovative forms of expression, whether it be in the struggle against heteronormative systems, problematizing the oppression of minorities or individual responses to abstract, invisible, external forces and society at large.