NOWNESS, a group exhibition of artists Cordy Ryman, Diana Al-Hadid and Jennifer Riley. The exhibition brings together three artists whose works reference organic elements of architecture and time. Cordy Ryman’s works defy categorization, straddling the lines of sculpture and painting, the artist engages the viewer by manipulating materials such as wood, Velcro, metal, Gorilla Glue, staples and scraps. The assemblages are both intuitive and spontaneous in nature and challenge the viewer to notice subtle differences in his work. While the use of found materials may at first seem haphazard, every shift in material, color, and scale is carefully considered. Diana Al-Hadid is a sculptor and painter living in Brooklyn, NY. Her work references historical past and present, conjures up mythological stories, and references architecture of towers, both mythological and real. Working with a variety of materials the artist creates tower like sculptures and paintings depicting the world in a state of decay. Her varying interests, from quantum mechanics to pop culture, find their ways into the pieces she creates which seem at times to be from the distant past while also appearing to be in varying states of construction. Jennifer Riley is a painter, arts writer and educator whose work introduces organic sensation to geometric abstraction. Linear gradients are paired with intensely hued flat color in canvases that are homages to early landscape painting and to constructivism.
