The gallery is pleased to present a summer group show including works by: Jess Allen, Michael Lombardo, Brittany Miller, Ernesto Renda, Ben Tong and Avery Wheless. In a wide range of techniques and languages, all the paintings on display works like fragments of narratives. Similarly to the frame of a movie, the whole story can be imagined starting from there. Sometimes the clue that suggest the untold narrative is an interior scenography, sometimes a cloth or a shadow. This is the case of Jess Allen, UK based artist. Her whole narrative is in absentia. The presence of figures is just suggested by their own shadows projected on domestic objects, such as couches or sofas. These shadows do not express though a sense of lack, but on the contrary they suggest a sense of intimancy to whom everyone can relate to, with engagement and no voyerism. In her recent interview published on Revue Eclipse, the artist better explain this concept as follow: “Recently I discovered the Japanese term ‘Ma’, which is a term used to describe a very important part of their cultural aesthetic. In the essay ‘When Less is more: Japanese Concept of MA, Minimalism and Beyond’ ,Yukiko Kisaki describes Ma as ‘an emptiness full of possibilities, like a promise yet to be fulfilled’, and ‘the silence between the notes which make the music.’ Equally important in their architecture, space/ Ma, is significant as a place to pause. This concept is much more than a physical phenomena, but a philosophy of being, and a metaphor for existence.”
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