From New York With Love: Exhibition Photos

Left to right: Katherine Keltner, Shawn Powell, Justin Neely, Albert Weaver, Chris Lucius, Qiana Mestrich, MaDora Frey, Rika Laser, Rhia Hurt, Ward Yoshimoto, Rachael Gorchov.

Cutouts, drawings, and installation by Katerina Lanfranco.

Drawings, installation, and paintings by Katerina Lanfranco.

Installation, paintings, and Tyvek cutouts by Katerina Lanfranco.

Tyvek cutouts and yarn wall drawing by Katerina Lanfranco.

Rhombus Space presents "From New York With Love" at Toronto's Red Head Gallery

"From New York with Love" is Katerina Lanfranco’s debut solo show in Toronto. The show is comprised of works on paper, collages, cut-outs, paintings, sculptures, and site-specific installations. Lanfranco grew up in Toronto and was one of Red Head Gallery's first interns. Now based in Brooklyn, New York, she exhibits her work internationally. 

Featured in From New York with Love will be a curatorial project in care of Rhombus Space - featuring works on paper by MaDora Frey, Rachael Gorchov, Rhia Hurt, Katherine Keltner, Chris Lucius, Rika Laser, Qiana Mestrich, Justin Neely, Shawn Powell, Albert Weaver, & Ward Yoshimoto.

Bioluminescence series by Katerina Lanfranco. 

Prismacolor pencil and mica powder on black paper. 2009.

Katerina Lanfranco received her MFA in Painting from Hunter College, City University of New York. In 2010, Lanfranco was a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Arts Fellow as part of the Japan-US Friendship Commission, and did a 6-month artist residency in Kyoto studying traditional Japanese arts. She has been awarded artists’ residencies at the UCSC Sesnon Gallery, Byrdcliffe Art Residency, Vermont Studio Center, and at the Elizabeth Foundation. She teaches drawing and painting at Hunter College and the Museum of Modern Art. Lanfranco has exhibited internationally, and her artwork is in several permanent collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings) in Berlin, Germany, and the Corning Museum of Glass. She is the founder and director of Rhombus Space, an experimental exhibition space in Brooklyn, NY, and represented by the Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York, and by the Piacsek Gallery in London. Lanfranco’s work addresses the intersection of nature, science, and fantasy. She explores metaphors of nature in relation to culture, cultural forms of framing and displaying nature, and how our concept of nature informs our construction of identity. 

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The Red Head Gallery
401 Richmond St. West, Suite 115 
Toronto, On M5V 3A8

Rhombus Space Presents "No Sleep Till Berlin"

Rhombus Space proudly presents "No Sleep Till Berlin," an exhibition that showcases new 3D yarn/paint/wood works by curator Katerina Lanfranco alongside works on paper by some of our favorite artists: MaDora Frey, Rachael Gorchov, Rhia Hurt, Katherine Keltner, Chris Lucius, Rika Laser, Qiana Mestrich, Justin Neely, Shawn Powell, Albert Weaver, and Ward Yoshimoto.

Left: Qiana Mestrich. Top right: Shawn Powell. Bottom right: Katherine Keltner

Berlin is an epicenter of contemporary art and of cutting-edge culture, and Rhombus Space thought we'd bring a little taste of Brooklyn to the good people of this great city at Josty, Bergstraße 22, 10115 Berlin-Mitte from 4-9PM.

By the way, in the 20th Century, the old Café Josty in Berlin was where the German Expressionists and artists affiliated with the Neo-Objectivity movement regularly met to discuss art and culture.

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"No Sleep Till Berlin": Exhibition Photos

Our exhibition No Sleep Till Berlin at Josty, Bergstraße 22, 10115 Berlin-Mitte opened June 13th, 2015 and featured drawings by MaDora Frey, Rachael Gorchov, Rhia Hurt, Katherine Keltner, Chris Lucius, Rika Laser, Qiana Mestrich, Justin Neely, Shawn Powell, Albert Weaver, Ward Yoshimoto and 3D work by Katerina Lanfranco.

Left: Selected Rhombus Space artists. Right: Yarn, wood, and paint sculptures by Katerina Lanfranco.

Left to right: Rachael Gorchov, Shawn Powell, Justin Neely, and Rhia Hurt.

On the left: Albert Weaver.

Shawn Powell

 Katherine Keltner and Chris Lucius.

 Shawn Powell.

Chris Lucius. 

Rika Laser. 

Yarn and stick works by Katerina Lanfranco.

Katerina Lanfranco.

"Heavy Metal" Exhibition Installation Photos

Robbi's Measure in C. Metal, wood, and coral. 12 x 8 x 6"

Ward Yoshimoto's Let It Drop, 2015. Hardware cloth, Krylon, and acrylic, 21.5 x 14 x 2.5"

Top: Ward Yoshimoto, Turbine, 2014. Hardware cloth, 6 x 14"

MaDora Frey, War Yoshimoto, Alexa Williams, and MaDora Frey (Left to right).

Robbii, Tom Kotik, Robbi x 2, MaDora Frey (Left to right).

Tom Kotik, Improvisation, 2015. MDF and latex paint, 51 x 81".

MaDora Frey's Kaleidescope #600, Mirrors, oil paint, canvas, light, 16 x 22 x 12", 2015

MaDora Frey's Kaleidescope #600, Mirrors, oil paint, canvas, light, 16 x 22 x 12", 2015

Alexa Williams, Thermite Sugar, 2015. Steel, chalk, and graphite on concrete, 18 x 24".

Tom Kotik, Untitle (White), 2011. Altered guitar and spray enamel, 19 x 8.5 x 6".

Robbii, Rob. Metal, coral, and wood. 13 x 7 x 4"

Ward Yoshimoto Untitled (Auto-cad Mandala), 2014. Hardware cloth and rope, 9 x 29 x 29".

Ward Yoshimoto, Bugs, 2013. Hardware cloth and plastic beads. Dimensions variable.

Robbii's Rondel. Metal and wood 17 x 5". MaDora Frey Lure, 2014. Photograph, motos, feathers and pyrite, 110 x 49 x 12"

MaDora Frey (Left) Alexa Williams (Right) Canyon in Vivid, 2015. Steel chalk, and graphite on concrete.

Rhombus Space Presents "Heavy Metal" Featuring Artwork by MaDora Frey, Tom Kotik, Robbii, Alexa Williams, and Ward Yoshimoto.

Rhombus Space presents Heavy Metal, an exhibition featuring artwork by MaDora Frey, Tom Kotik, Robbii, Alexa Williams, and Ward Yoshimoto.
Curated by Katerina Lanfranco

Exhibition Dates: April 10 - May 3, 2015

Reception: Friday, April 10th, 6-9 PM

183 Lorraine St, 3FL #33 Brooklyn, NY 11231

The artists in "Heavy Metal" examine concepts of metal as a material, alchemy, and music. Their artworks are both heavy and defiantly light. Non-traditional and often industrial materials are used to create artworks that transcend the original nature of their materiality to form engaging and unexpected sculptures, paintings, and art installations.

Robbii’s shrine-like assemblages bring a redemptive quality to otherwise humble, old, and discarded materials like machine parts, aged wood, and rusted metal. Yoshimoto references his roots in the industrial suburbs of L.A. that polarized his Japanese heritage and plastic Americana, in his suburban folk art metal sculptures and drawings. Williams represents urban and industrial space through concrete and sheet metal paintings that suggest landscape while being formal abstractions. Kotik makes activated monochromes that investigate the relationship between sound, architecture, and Minimalism. Frey’s work synthesizes idyllic nature and city grit with urban elements such as glass, asphalt, and concrete – taking on the sinewy, geometric chaos of the natural world.

The artists in “Heavy Metal” embrace the power of transforming humble media in their work, to create stunning works that make us reconsider our daily aesthetic and even spiritual experience, in urban and industrial spaces.

MaDora Frey is a New York based artist with an MFA from the New York Academy of Art (and studied art in Florence, Italy). She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally with solo shows in Seattle, WA and in NYC. Frey is the recipient of several grants and awards including: the Ford Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and Prince of Wales Fellowship (Normandy, France). She has been awarded a 2015 artist residency at the Quarry at Marble House Project.

MaDora Frey, Kaleidoscope #500 (Space for One) 2013. Mirrors and mixed media, 12 x 22 x 12”

Tom Kotik is a New York based artist with an MFA from Hunter College. His work has been widely exhibited nationally and internationally, including at Smack Mellow, Socrates Sculpture Park, the Sculpture Center in New York, the Prague National Gallery in the Czech Republic, and at the Miro Foundation in Barcelona, Spain. He is the recipient of many awards and residencies in New York. Kotik has an upcoming solo show opening in June at the Leslie Heller Gallery in NYC.

 

Tom Kotik, Untitled (Red), 2011. Altered Ibanez DT 350 guitar, spray enamel, 24.5 x 15.5 x 6”

Robbii is a New York based artist with a BFA from Parson School of Design. He was inspired to become an artist by his father who was a commercial artist for over 70 years and taught him the value of good work, and by insight sharing identical twin brother who is a rocket scientist working for NASA.  Robbii has shown at numerous galleries nationally, and has had solo shows at Gallery Juno, NYC and at the Earlville Opera House, Earlville, NY.

Robbii, Measure in C. Mixed media, 12.5 x 8 x 5”

Alexa Williams is a New York City native, based in Red Hook, Brooklyn, with a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has exhibited extensively in NYC, with solo shows at Gallery Brooklyn, Giacobetti-Paul Gallery, Schaefer Landing, and Greely Square Gallery. She is the recipient of artist residencies and fellowships including from the Vermont Studio Center and The Cooper Union. Post art school, Williams lived in Spain in order to paint near the sea, and developed her “Horizon” series.

Alexa Williams, Suzuki Reaction, 2014. Chalk and graphite on steel and concrete, 18 x 24”

Ward Yoshimoto is a New York based artist with an MFA from Brooklyn College, CUNY. Yoshimoto exhibits his work extensively nationally and internationally with solo shows in California, NYC and Paris, France. He has received several awards and residencies including, the MacDowell Colony, Governors Island, as well as from Brooklyn College and Bard College. He is also a founding member of ICOBA – a conceptual art group exploring institutional critique of the art world active in NYC and Paris, France.

 

Ward Yoshimoto, Drop Everything, 2014. Hardware cloth (metal wire), Krylon, and acrylic, 21.5 x 14 x 2.5”