Extended spotlight series
Mia Fonssagrives Solow. Apple Form, Green enamel on fiberglass. Also available in blue, black, orange, red and white. Image courtesy of Leila Heller Gallery.
During these days when we all have time on our hands, what better opportunity than to get deeply acquainted with artists that you’ve only ever briefly encountered? I posted last week about Leila Heller Gallery’s online viewing rooms, well, this week they have launched a spotlight series focusing on specific artists and with high quality images of their work.
The first spotlight was on Mia Fonssagrives Solow, an American contemporary artist based in New York and Paris. A sculptor who works with a range of mediums, she has an interest in form and colour and the gallery describes her aesthetic as whimsical. In the piece pictured above, her curves are reminscent of nature and her innate sense of space and surrounding make the work almost sensual.
Richard Hudson, NOTE, 2018. Polished Mirrored Steel. Five metres tall. Courtesy of Leila Heller Gallery.
Staying with sculpture, the gallery also posted a spotlight on Richard Hudson whose seminal works in organic forms are usually in marble, wood, steel or bronze. The gallery have provided concise information on each artist that gives a useful introduction. For Hudson, the statement reads: “Exploring the canon of Western sculpture and changing approaches to beauty, Hudson’s smooth and sensual sculptures concern not only the fields of art and art history but also psychology, anthropology and philosophy. Hudson’s sculptures, which range in size from miniature to monumental, employ exaggeration and even humor to veil underlying essences of form and beauty.”
Habitat The Bird, 2019. Porcelain. 120 cm x 145 cm.
The gallery also posted a showcase of nine porcelain works by Melis Buyruk, a talented artist who uses ceramic who create dimensional and topographic works of intricate flora and fauna encased in wooden boxes, which the artist also calls their own habitat. “In a mastery of porcelain, the traditionally feminized and overlooked art form associated with domestic life is reinterpreted as a medium that points to bio-futurist tensions,” says the gallery. These work are truly magnificent in the flesh but the short video on the gallery has posted gives a great insight.
Leila Heller Gallery, Unit 80, Alserkal Avenue, Street 8, Al Quoz, Dubai. Sun to Thurs, 10am to 7pm. Sat 11am to 7pm. Tel: (04) 3216942. leilahellergallery.com