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OPENING TODAY:
Nancy Lorenz
States of Matter

Opening reception from 5-7pm.

The exhibition remains on view until January 8, 2022.
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Can’t wait! Marnie Weber’s ‘Songs Forevermore’ opens this Saturday, Nov 13, 3-6pm at ODD ARK LA.✨You don’t want to miss it!

✨ Songs Forevermore is an installation and record release exhibition of 250 hand-collaged and painted unique LP cover’s for the vinyl album soundtrack of Weber’s visionary feature film The Day of Forevermore. On view from Nov 13 - Dec 4, 2021.

👉 For more information and inquiries, please DM or contact the gallery at [email protected]

TODAY’S READ: ‘Artist Gisela Colón goes from Earth to Beyond’ by Beatriz Colón for

“All of my recent pieces are a continuum of my practice of organic minimalism but extrapolated and extended into the natural world. So in the realm of land art, or environmental art, and that movement that emerged in the late 1960s, early ’70s, was mostly men, and they were all making very aggressive marks on the land, and utilized hard, geometric forms. So when you’re creating land art in the context and the backdrop of that history that is so male-dominated, I see my work as expanding that lineage of the male-dominated field and adding and contributing a new voice that is all about having a feminist approach to the world, a world in which we imbue everything with organic qualities. After all, our planet is called “Mother Earth” for a reason.” -

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GAVLAK is pleased to present States of Matter, a solo exhibition of new mixed media works by New York-based artist Nancy Lorenz (), on view from November 13, 2021–January 8, 2022. This recent body of work, which centers on the artist’s ongoing interest in the fundamental elements that compose our universe, explores the four states—solid, liquid, plasma, and gas—with alchemical aspirations. The result is an existential reflection on the materiality of our world that bridges the conventional categories of fine art, craft, and design.

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GAVLAK is pleased to announce Paul Stephen Benjamin’s () participation in this year’s Prospect 5 New Orleans (). The artist will exhibit his large-scale sculpture Sanctuary in Yesterday we said tomorrow, an exhibition curated by Naima J. Keith and Diana Nawi, on view at the New Orleans African American Museum () from October 30 – January 23, 2022. Installed outside on the old campus of the New Orleans African American Museum, Sanctuary seeks to connect Benjamin’s personal history of working with his family as a builder in New Orleans to the history of the place itself, which was formerly a brick yard on the site of the historic community of Treme. In this work, Benjamin creates a monument from metallic black brick and black graphite mortar in order to emphasize the multivalent significance of the color black, a key conceptual tenet of his work. As the title suggests, Benjamin’s sculpture is thematically rooted in a consideration of care and a desire to create a sacred space for the contemplation of Black life and labor.
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New Orleans African American Museum
October 30, 2021 - January 23, 2021
Wednesday–Sunday, 11 AM–4 PM
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Eternity Now by Gisela Colón
The site-specific installation, Eternity Now, embodies a timeless moment, where past, present, and future merge on the historic 4500-year-old UNESCO site of the Great Pyramids of Giza. The 30-footlong golden elliptical dome pays tribute to the deep historic legacy of ancient Egypt, known as a birthing site or ‘cradle’ of ancient culture.

The monumental sculpture is informed by the astounding volumes of knowledge acquired by the ancient Egyptians spanning the fields of astronomy, science, mythology, art, architecture, and sacred geometries. The installation’s formal geometric aspects embody the mythical shape of the sun god Ra’s glowing orb: the venerable chroma of gold being omnipresent in Egyptian symbolism and ritualism.

The dome’s elliptical curvatures reference the Eye of Horus, the mystical mind’s eye or third oculus, a form of mythological geometry symbolizing healing, protection, and rebirth. Speaking a fundamental and universal language, Eternity Now envisions a future of humanistic solidarity, reconciliation, and interconnectedness.

By Bassant Mohammed for Daily News Egypt

OPENING THIS SATURDAY, OCT. 30 AT GAVLAK PALM BEACH:
No Soft Edges: Women in Minimalism

No Soft Edges questions the conventional relationship between gender and minimalism with an intergenerational exhibition dedicated to the often overlooked women working within the field of minimalist theory and practice. Focusing on the works of six artists—Karen Carson, Alex Chitty, Gisela Colón, Linda Daniels, Beverly Fishman, and Anne Truitt—the exhibition covers nearly sixty years of contributions by women to a realm of artistic production historically dominated by men, with the intention of redefining a canon that continues to grow and develop.

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Alex Chitty
Saltwater (string painting), 2020
Painted steel, cast brass, walnut, cotton cord
48.375 x 38.5 x 3 in (122.9 x 97.8 x 7.6 cm)
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at the Great Pyramids of Giza. 

Gisela Colón | Eternity Now

The site-specific installation, Eternity Now, embodies a timeless moment, where past, present, and future merge on the historic 4500-year-old UNESCO site of the Great Pyramids of Giza. The 30-foot-long golden elliptical dome pays tribute to the deep historic legacy of ancient Egypt, known as a birthing site or ‘cradle’ of ancient culture. The monumental sculpture is informed by the astounding volumes of knowledge acquired by the ancient Egyptians spanning the fields of astronomy, science, mythology, art, architecture, and sacred geometries. The installation’s formal geometric aspects embody the mythical shape of the sun god Ra’s glowing orb: the venerable chroma
of gold being omnipresent in Egyptian symbolism and ritualism. The dome’s elliptical curvatures reference the Eye of Horus, the mystical mind’s eye or third oculus, a form of mythological geometry symbolizing healing, protection, and rebirth. Speaking a fundamental and universal language, Eternity Now envisions a future of humanistic solidarity, reconciliation, and interconnectedness.

The exhibition will be running from October 21st to November 7th.

🪐 New work by

Gisela Colón
Morph (Gamma), 2021
Blow-molded acrylic
42 x 35 x 12 in (106.7 x 88.9 x 30.5 cm)
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