Julia Haft-Candell || Suzan Frecon
1326 South Boyle Avenue
Saturday, April 6 at 6:00 PM 9:00 PM
Ends May 25, 2019
Parrasch Heijnen Gallery is pleased to present Julia Haft-Candell / Suzan Frecon an exhibition of new sculpture by the Los Angeles-based artist in direct historic conversation with works on paper by New York-based abstract artist Suzan Frecon. Julia Haft-Candell’s ceramic sculptures re-imagine essentialist forms building upon the artist’s previous vocabulary involving rhythm, repetition, and ritual. This latest body of work presents the familiar in a highly focused context through ambiguous shapes and fluid moments. Haft-Candell’s hand-molded gestures capture the immediate responsiveness of her primary material, as she experiments with subject and scale in relation to the body. The artist often balances the natural with the vitreous in her finishes acknowledging a conscious understanding of her medium’s inherent properties. Haft-Candell’s specific use of glaze intentionally highlights visceral textures and rough cracks, drawing color to form. These ideas are visible throughout her oeuvre as presence and materiality formulate the motivation behind her objects. Haft-Candell views her work as a continuous body that evokes movement and motion in universal symbols to address a greater primordial narrative.
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