New Voices features four artists who use materiality to conjure spiritual forces, primeval imagination, and history in ways that reach beyond fact and science into other realms.
New Voices brings together artists working in Cleveland, Detroit, Baltimore, and Mexico across mediums and generations. This group show features four artists who use materiality to conjure spiritual forces, primeval imagination, and history in ways that reach beyond fact and science into other realms. This emphasis on materials leads the viewer to approach the work experientially, from Claudia Peña Salinas’ crystalline brass, plexiglass and wool Ali, suspended from the ceiling to Julia Callis’ matte paintings on panel, unfolding joyfully across the gallery’s long wall. Jen P. Harris exhibits a new series of multi-layered woven paintings, while Thiang Uk’s heavily impasto oil paintings of nature and the sublime also explore touch and emotion through a layered approach.