Orchid: Group Exhibition
Sydnie Jimenez, Haylie Jimenez, Juan Arango Palacios, Edward Cushenberry, and Kayla Mattes
July 28 - August 8th. 2021
GROUP EXHIBITION
ORCHIDS
GROUP EXHIBITION (PROJECT GALLERY)
EXHIBITION DATES: 28TH JULY 2021 to 8TH AUGST 2021
OPENING RECEPTION: FRI, JULY 28TH FROM 5:00 - 8:00 PM
GALLERY HOURS: TUES - SAT / 1PM - 6PM
NEW IMAGE ART, 7920 SANTA MONICA BLVD LOS ANGELES CA 90046
New Image Art is pleased to present Orchids, a group exhibition featuring drawings, paintings, textiles, and ceramics by Sydnie Jimenez, Haylie Jimenez, Juan Arango Palacios, Edward Cushenberry, and Kayla Mattes. This group exhibition examines the contemporary journey of crossing the threshold of the age of the self, and all the angst, self-discovery, hedonism, kinship, community, love, and loss that comes with it. The artists featured offer a vast array of visual languages, all coming together to tell their stories in unique ways.
Sydnie Jimenez was born in Orlando, FL but spent most of her childhood in north Georgia from which she draws much inspiration. She recently graduated from SAIC (BFA 2020) focusing on ceramic sculpture and is a recipient of the Windgate Fellowship (2020). Much of her work centers around the representation of black/ brown youth and self-expression as a form of protest, self care, and power within the community.
Haylie Jimenez was born in Orlando, FL but spent most of her adolescence in rural north Georgia along with her twin. She graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA in May 2020. Her work depicts/centers around black and brown queer femmes, either in normal everyday settings based on her own lived experiences, sometimes including mythical or magical elements to emphasize certain marginalized realities. Her practice consists of drawings, printmaking, and animation. She is interested in drawing as a form of documentation and in the various ways drawing styles are informed and how lived experiences inform style as well as subject matter.
Juan Arango Palacios practice works towards addressing their lived experiences of ambulant queer identities that have been marginalized within a diasporic or migratory context. Through the fluid and boundless medium of paint, Palacios has been able to represent memories,places, people, and archetypes that they associate with the safety, survival, and endurance of queer bodies in spaces that challenge their existence. Also, through the process of weaving they are producing narrative objects that aim at expressing the stories of individuals within a similar context. Placing emphasis on color and composition, Palacios’ work aims at create images glorifying and fantasizing the idea of safety in a queer experience.
Edward Cushenberry lives in the Los Angeles area where he splits his time between photographing his life and drawing everything else that's going on in his world, in an attempt to merge real life with romanticism.
Kayla Mattes is a visual artist, working across disciplines including weaving, sculpture, and installation. She archives the ephemeral vernacular of digital culture through the interconnected threads of tapestry. Based in LA, Kayla Mattes presents her work through the rarely-seen craft of weaving. The artist uses the meditative practice of weaving to tackle questions of memory, a life in the age of technology, and our relentless consumerist habits. Through an unmistakable comic cynicism, Mattes’ tapestries communicate the most influential tools and symbols of today as the subject, while the intricate, historical, and politically charged medium, dialogue in each point.
