Work by Marie Watt / Kavi Gupta Gallery exterior
Kavi Gupta presents Sky Dances Light, a solo exhibition of new works by celebrated, interdisciplinary Seneca artist Marie Watt, whose bold, multi-sensory visual language celebrates and fosters community connections.
Watt’s debut exhibition with the gallery, Sky Dances Light centers her highly anticipated new series of jingle clouds: biomorphic, hanging sculptures assembled from tens of thousands of jingle cones, rolled pieces of tin historically fashioned from the circular lids of tobacco containers.
Though each jingle cloud is a singularity with a distinct physiognomy and scale, when suspended in a luminous constellation above the gallery floor the works form a spectral community of numinous sentinels, guiding and guarding the space and everyone who enters it.
Closing September 30
Kavi Gupta presents Lightspace, a group painting exhibition examining aesthetic spaces, physical and metaphysical, within contemporary painting where concepts of lightness are central to the work.
In this exhibition, a lightspace can be a zone of literal brightness, a mental space free from heavy burdens, or an ethereal space welcoming of contemplation; it could describe a symbolic depiction of shine, a poetic representation of illumination, or a material transformed into a source of reflective light.
Each of the 14 works in the exhibition addresses lightspace from a distinctive position—some in a conceptual sense, such as Glenn Ligon’s Study for Negro Sunshine II; some from a meditative viewpoint, like Miya Ando’s Unkai (Sea of Clouds) series, or in an abstract context, like James Little’s White Paintings; some from a metaphysical point of view, such as Manuel Mathieu’s Framing the Abyss, or from a celestial perspective, like Michi Meko’s So simple then: Cause I find myself in the place where I'm last seen, or from a minimalist viewpoint, like Manish Nai’s untitled circular, hanging jute works.
Though each is unique, together the works argue for lightspace as a multifaceted, if somewhat fugitive, essence, difficult to condense, yet evident within many threads of contemporary art.
Closing October 7
Friday: 11-6
Saturday: 12-6
Sunday: closed
