Andrew Kreps Gallery is pleased to announce Measures of Intimacy, a group exhibition including artists Uri Aran, Fran Chang, Nino Kapanadze, Kristy Luck, Marta Naturale, Thérèse Oulton, and Emma Rose Schwartz. Organized by Alice Conconi, Measures of Intimacy brings together a cross-generational group of artists whose practices address the mutable boundaries that separate the self from its surrounding environment. Drawing on a wide array of sources, from intimate domestic spaces and autobiographical details, to art historical references and the expansiveness of the natural world, the works included often take a fragmentary approach to representation. Mediated by both the artists’ own experiences and the application of paint itself, the familiar architectures are rendered uncanny, and recognizable forms and references appear to stop short of legibility. The resulting works relish in the generative potential of human perception, representing a composite of formal decisions, time, and shifting emotional states. Similar to the process through which visual marks are transformed into language, visible, fractional components of the works’ origins invite the viewer to engage in their own connection with the paintings on view; mimicking the interior dialogues and processes that bring the works from an interior space into fruition.
