SOFT TEMPLE

June 22 through August 04, 2019

Opening reception Saturday, June 22, 6 - 9 pm

Mother Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition entitled Soft Temple from 22 June through 04 August 2019. Included in the show are artworks spanning drawing, painting and sculpture, by nine artists. The Gallery is located at 1154 North Avenue in Beacon, New York, on the ground floor.

In the Platonic dialogue Phaedrus, Socrates uses an allegory of a chariot to describe the way in which to operate within the human body. The chariot is pulled by two steeds representing polarizations, when the charioteer is in full possession of them, they soar towards their “best life.” Employing the body as a point of departure to explore the nature of being, the artists in Soft Temple transmute lived experience into visual metaphor.

“I am one with the Hudson River, especially when I urinate into it,” says Daniel Giordano, who presents a set of vulgar sculptures gracefully cobbled together, and sometimes deep-fried. Giovanni Forlino’s quixotically rendered drawings remind us that bodies are at once monstrous and fragile. Elisa Soliven creates grid-skinned vessels that could be from either the future or the past. Steven Mayer paints watery worlds populated with vaporous spirits, pages, and messengers. And in her drawings, Larysa Myers depicts vexed figures in softly rendered graphite.

With cinematic color, Chason Matthams paints a dark narrative in response to the daily barrage of information and waste and Jenny Morgan suffuses a photorealistic nude in green while addressing the mechanics of awareness. Ryan Browning deadpans a cartoonish set of eyes floating in the midst of the dense internal landscape. And embedded in a headboard by Brock Enright, lie a pair of garden hoses, hooking up ad infinitum.

The gallery is open from Friday through Sunday, 12pm to 5pm. For further information and/or photographs, please call 845 236 6039 or email info@mothergallery.art