We’re very honored and excited to announce Linda Sormin’s sculpture Ta Saparot is one of the featured new acquisitions in the upcoming exhibition, This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery.
The paradoxical combination of aesthetically pleasing adornments with serious subject matter is echoed in Demetri Broxton’s Save Me, Joe Louis
“The most impressive work in the show is Linda Sormin’s gargantuan agglomeration of tangled clay tubes, numerous video screens of varying size, a section of a spiral staircase, a dragon head used in Chinese festival dances, and detritus, arcing through the air within and around a zigzag metal framework.”
“Truong believes that artists are multidisciplinary by default. She impresses this upon her students and makes it particularly evident in her work. She combs through historic archives and delves into the Western art historical canon, unafraid to bring ideologies such as Manifest Destiny or Abstract Expressionism into her fold.”
“Beyond Definitions: The Works of Julia Couzens”, interviewed by Maria Rosaria Roseo for ArteMorbida Textile Arts.
San Francisco sculptor Ramekon O’Arwisters, originally from North Carolina, said he was honored to contribute to the show.
The scale of this work is defiantly human, reflecting the artist’s stated desire to make a world without resorting to the easy grandiosity of immense canvases.
“Queer Threads” presents nearly three dozen artists connected to the West coast who are remixing fiber and textile traditions to explore contemporary LGBTQ ideas.
“The Potential of Objects” highlights a number of artistic practices employing everyday objects and materials to explore the human condition.
From DNA to human emotions, “Speculative Portraits” explores how contemporary artists are drawing from technology and scientific research to expand on ideas of portraiture and identity.