"FUSION" Group Exhibition

“FUSION” a selection of cotemporary works of artists presenting several engaging and contrasting points of view. The roster includes, Pip Brant, Emanuele Cacciatore, Tony Caltabiano, Emmy Cho, Debra Holt, Jean Claude Rigaud, David McConnell, Peter Mackie, Sara Modiano, Kerry Phillips, Louis Ulman, Suzan Woodruff and JaYoung Yoon. Each artist speaks in a different visual language and technique. The message is dynamic, giving the artists the liberty to explore the creative process freed from a central theme. With the diverse techniques for creating art and different methods of interpreting life, they aim to introduce a clear message, be it through philosophy, music, nature, psychology, the figure or a reinterpretation of familiar icons. Their various life experiences bring a unique perspective to the concept of art and its role in today’s society.

Fiber style artist Pip Brant uses a plethora of found materials, everything from doilies to vintage postcards and takes them out of their context by altering them in ironic and humorous ways, bringing out the political and social messages imbedded in them. New York area artist Emanuele Cacciatore is in complete command of the tools of his trade and it is through brushes, knives and even stencils that Cacciatore builds up the rich and phenomenal surfaces of his paintings.  Californian area artist Tony Caltabiano’s photographic images explore some of the lesser-known wilderness areas on the fringes of urban sprawl in California. He often works into the print with oil and acrylic glazes. It is through the process of painting that these landscapes become more than photographic images.  Emmy Cho’s paintings feed off of abstraction, Taoist philosophy, Chinese landscape painting, and modern physics. Cho creates contradictory subjects that are made to work together in order to achieve what the artist calls a “visual globalism” – an astute portrayal of modern society.  Debra Holt’s monochromatic photographs on nature deceive the eye and transform perception in an illusionistic process. Nature is not nature in the real sense in Holt’s photographs but a pictorial construction of forms, textures, and colors that have become unnatural, distanced from the real, twisting into an imaginary landscape of shadows or lights counterpoint with impassive echo. Peter Mackie’s photographic images present scolding references to urban elements and recreate a constructivist world of tools and industrial materials in a rough and textured environment.  Los Angeles artist/record producer David McConnell’s paintings, video, and sound installations were created when McConnell had decided to leave the recording industry in LA to focus on his new artworks.  The artist blends his musical knowledge with paintings and installations.  Sara Modiano’s “Thin Slice Series”, the artist methodically cuts an image of herself from the series “Reflect”- a portrait of the artist outwardly expressing heightened emotions. Kerry Phillips many of her processes and materials are collected from memories she has, things she has learned growing up or things her grandma taught Kerry, or did, or used.  Suzan Woodruff, one of the leaders of the new Flow painters, gives expression to both the world she inhabits and the world she experiences. The primary conduit of both light and memory in her work is color, she understands that colors are not only physical expressions of light and space, but have psychological dimensions as well.  Korean artist Ja Young Yoon varies in format from installation to sculpture, photography, drawing and performance. The artist uses her own hair in her works to explore issues of identity and power. Her works provoke memories and associations made up both fanciful, fictions and factual realities.

From multiple solo exhibitions to participation in museums, these artists have shown their work worldwide.

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About Abba Fine Art:   Abba Fine Art’s objective is to showcase samples of the diversity found in the creative flow of today’s contemporary art scene. The gallery stable includes works from artists that deal with different aesthetics as well as ideological dynamics. The subjects represent different aspects of life, ranging from the organic and natural to the psychological, figurative and pop culture references. Art.