[ Art Fair ] Untitled Miami 2016

Gildar Gallery is excited to announce our participation in Untitled, Miami Beach 2016 featuring a juxtaposition of paintings by Andrew Jensdotter and sculptures by Dmitri Obergfell, two artists whose works employ subtractive material processes to reveal hidden meaning.

Andrew Jensdotter makes a visual case in paint for the problematic and evocative process of cultural memory and its inevitable distortions. His visceral abstracted surfaces are formed by compressing a multitude of appropriated imagery derived from mass media representations of celebrities. Stacking layers of rote figurative painting, the artist, selectively slices through the many piled-on depictions unearthing rings of optically blended colors to form an aura-like composition of its subject. These representations of contemporary icons reduced to shrouds of color are all the specificity that remains to grasp onto of mythologized personas.

In his sculptural work, Dmitri Obergfell invokes the cycle of transformation that occurs to symbols as they pass through time and cultural filters. Utilizing destruction as a creative act Obergfell casts classical busts that erode in one material mode as they gain substance in a different visual format. These sculptures that vary in material make-up from plaster to graphite create powerful visual metaphors related to the changing values of society as monuments and icons shift hands across time.