The Memory of Touch

The dynamics of transformation is a driving concept and process behind Biagi’s work, in particular, the transformative power of coating everyday objects with layers of viscous tar. With his series of round paintings, the transformative power of tar is explored on its own terms, as the singular materiality of painting. While on one level the minimal yet richly textured tar forms conjure dark themes like voids or black holes, they simultaneously invoke the opposite, their perfect geometric circularity referencing solid presence, totality, and completion. Mattia Biagi was born in northern Italy in 1974 and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. After working under the tutelage of Giulio Cappellini for 11 years, Biagi departed for Los Angeles to launch his career. During a chance encounter with some black tar oozing from the ground at the La Brea Tar Pits...

Vincent Pocsik’s sculptural works are a study of human form abstracted down to the point of its most transformative power. Flesh twists, contracts, pushes against bones and skin and ...

Edward McHugh Untitled, 2021 Acrylic, ink, thread, iron oxide, polyester resin on double-refined fiberboard 3 x 45.5 x 56.5 in

Contemporary artist Jennifer Printz "More than Memory" series is collection of nine postcard like prints using photography, graphite, and Epson Ultrachrome inks on BFK Rives paper. The work is matted and framed in wood, protected with anti-static, non-glare Plexiglass glazing. The idea for this body of work comes from Jennifer's fascination with the public nature of mourning during the Victorian period. Back then, people used dress...