VB Contemporary is delighted to present its Spring season group exhibition titled "IN SPRING" with a stellar line-up of accomplished artists. The exhibition celebrates the theme of "SPRING" with all its glory. Flowers, vegetation, green landscapes, floral abstractions and flora photographs along with themes of rebirth are presented in varying styles and mediums. Hence, a kaleidoscope of a Spring tapestry comes forth embracing the varying artwork within the exhibit welcoming the viewer to a Spring-full journey through the arts.
The exhibition brings together artists from many corners of the world such as Washington DC, Los Angeles, New York City, Connecticut, New Hampshire, London, Trent, Germany and Hiroshima Japan.
Artists in the exhibition are:
Hermann Lederle, KK Kozik, Lee Kaloidis, Margery Thomas Mueller, Victor Griffin, Vanessa Mitter, Ian R. Pearsall, Andrew Harrison, Katsumi Ishikawa, Irfan Ajvazi, Vian Borchert
About the Concept:
The "IN SPRING" theme touches upon the conceptual aspects and philosophies of rebirth and Spring renewal. Flora depictions and abstractions are presented to illustrate the multitude of what Spring entails. The artists' ideas are blooming and spring to life in this spectacular exhibit that celebrates the power of creativity mixed with the skill of artistry encompassing a Springtime exploration of the artists' renderings of nature and the environment.
Concept and curation by Vian Borchert
Exhibition Dates: April 16 - May 31, 2024.
The catalog for the exhibit "IN SPRING" is available for Download
Banks
Banks
72 x 144 inches (h x w)
Oil and Goldleaf on Canvas - 3 Panels
2022
About the Artwork:
Los Angeles artist Hermann Lederle is known for his innovative “Beautiful Chaos” abstract landscapes and unique layered pixel painting. Blurring the boundaries between paint-scape and landscape reality, and between the paint and its intended object, the work combines geometric abstraction and pure color concept to explore a new ethereal thematic content. Through a pilling of dotted lines and multitude of hyper-glow colors, Lederle constructs an unordered free floating imagery that is frozen in a still frame, with its kinetic forces relentlessly pushing up against its limits.
Consequently, the outcome is an experimental composition of primal shapes and lines striving for a creative expression of artificial spaces in another dimension and direction. Thus, a new-dimensional structure slowly emerges transcending the traditional geometric shapes.
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Bluebirds
Bluebirds
46 x 37 inches (h x w)
Oil on linen
2019
About the Artwork:
Excerpt from the artist, KK Kozik, “As to me," wrote poet Walt Whitman in 1881, 'I know of nothing else but miracles.” Whitman goes on to list some very ordinary phenomena as miracles, from “stars shining quiet and bright,” to standing under trees in a wood to observing birds in flight. I've been looking for a way to put into words what links these new paintings together and I relate to Whitman’s words. The vein of American mysticism linking the natural world with the spiritual has found form in artists as disparate as Rockwell Kent, Agnes Pelton and me: artists who process what they see, what they experience and what they imagine into a painted image. My minor miracles mostly surface from the rhythms of my day. Strolls and hikes and swims root me in my local landscape and put beauty in my way. My images are the meeting in the middle of the everyday world and the way my imagination processes it and my hand executes it.
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Bomb Cyclone
Bomb Cyclone
46 x 40 inches (h x w)
Oil on canvas
2018
About the Artwork:
Lee Kaloidis states, "My paintings are a direct byproduct of intense involvement with improvisational music and free-verse poetic composition. They are about expressive freedom, dramatic and evolutionary movement, balance and integrity, and ultimately about natural order. I like to think of my paintings as places where the most divergent and unexpected things collide, converging at just the right time into articulate realizations of new compositional possibilities. I don't know what I'm gonna do in the beginning. Sometimes I try to get out in front by forcefully seeing things, but that's always wrong. You can't discover what you already know. You can't see what doesn't exist yet. What's best is to get your head right in the beginning, then do something and respond to that honestly and deeply and with all the love you can muster - Over and over and over again till you're done."
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Reimagine
Reimagine
38 x 60 inches (h x w)
Watercolor on Yupo Paper
2023
About the Artwork:
Margery Thomas Mueller states, “Liminal space… the world in between – between a world I live in and a world I listen to, that has always been what has driven my imagery. Edna St Vincent Millay’s poem “Renascence”, the place in between life’s state of being and how we treat the other, has been an internal focus.
In recent years, finally being able to work in my studio full time, the connection has become deeper and stronger. Investing time in understanding the travails of the other, has consumed my emotions and driven my imagery. Watching the world move from continent to continent, seeing humanity being uprooted as they seek a solid resting place makes my landscapes evolve. The branches, the thickets, the thorns reveal the human tales. As I work on Yupo paper, an unstable ground in itself, the moving ink and moving graphite speak to those emotions. Knowing that I can erase the entire picture plane with strokes of water and ammonia relates to what is happening in the human landscape as it transforms. Liminal space is the space in between. In between, knowing, owning, being connected and permanent into a space that is in flux. Where life is unknown. A landscape where only the ground is stable. My work starts with a basic composition, a layout and then the medium leads me through the fluid reaction. I listen to the ink, as we listen to the land.”
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Iris #1
Iris #1
24 x 24 inches (h x w)
Digital Photo
2023
About the Artwork:
Victor Griffin states, "Flowers started as a project which turned into a whole body of work which now forms the main emphasis of my work. Flowers are all around us through all seasons and although I’d never take the time to spot the obvious, it dawned on me that there is a whole world of natural beauty wherever we look if we take the time to notice it. My hope is that I can convey some of that beauty and detail in the images that I produce."
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On Fertile Ground: Ghosts
On Fertile Ground: Ghosts
36 x 30 inches (h x w)
Oil on Mixed Media
2022
About the Artwork:
Quoting writer Alice Butler of Frieze: ‘In Vanessa Mitter’s paintings, the personal is treated as a pliant material, a source of affect and investigation, but also of fiction and performance. There is an abject narrative at play – of childbirth, loss, fertility – but it is a narrative.. working and re-working the surface, with the addition of a swathe of fabric, a ripped sheet of paper, or an expressive gesture of paint, becomes a signifier of the passing of time.”
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Hedgerow
Hedgerow
24 x 16 inches (h x w)
Ink
2024
About the Artwork:
Ian R. Pearsall states, "My walks took me over to the Maer Hills, and what has emerged is a series of Ink Drawings that capture the riches of nature's colours and shapes. Deep earth colours; trees and the marks of human presence through the farming of this landscape have become driving motifs in my work and I'm excited to showcase them in my artwork. My passion for the exploration of a widely variable array of materials has always been inextricably linked to my explorations of instinctual subject matter. There is an instinctive truth in my choices of material to the subjects I explore. My work must speak for me."
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Four Narcissi
Four Narcissi
20 x 20 x 1.5 inches (h x w x d)
Digital Photo
2024
About the Artwork:
Photographer, Andrew Harrison states, "For too many years I working as a commercial photographer - These images all sought perfection. The products were polished - food was styled, and models unblemished. Even though retouching was still a manual process involving airbrushes and skilled graphic artists there was little reality in the finished images. Now it is time for me to make images and supply them as limited editions. These objects, people and places with their patina and life carried proudly are in line with the ancient Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi. Wabi-Sabi is the Japanese concept that impermanence and imperfection are integral and even beautiful parts of life. My photographic still life series are a personal exploration and celebration of the beauty found within everyday objects. I aim to transform ordinary objects into captivating subjects that evoke emotions, provoke thoughts, and invite viewers to see the world from a different perspective. Each still life photograph tells a unique story, showcasing the interplay of colour, texture, and form. Through my lens, I seek to uncover the hidden narratives and symbolic meanings within the objects - I hope to inspire viewers to pause, reflect, and find beauty in the seemingly mundane. By highlighting the poetry found in everyday objects, my goal is to evoke a sense of wonder, encouraging viewers to see the extraordinary in the ordinary and appreciate the inherent beauty present in the world around them. I see the potential for images all around me all the time in objects and nature."
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Mystery
Mystery
24 x 20 inches (h x w)
Digital Photo
2019
About the Artwork:
The mysteriously shaped white flower from Nigella Japonica species is grown in Southwest Asia, Western Asia and Southern Europe. This flower has white, purplish petals which are the sepals, and thread-like leaves which are the bracts surrounding and contributing to its mysterious flair.
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READING
READING
12 x 16 inches (h x w)
Acrylic on paper
2023
About the Artwork:
Irfan Ajvazi states, "I take snapshots, without looking for a special photo. I photograph a motif or figure that catches my eye and interests me. When I paint a picture, it is then that I compose—I find a figure interesting and search for something that goes together with it. At the end, the work is put together from different sources. Things that have influenced me are: film, commercials, media in general and art history."
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Wild Flowers
Wild Flowers
30 x 15 x 1.5 inches (h x w x d)
Acrylic on Canvas
2022
About the Artwork:
"Wild Flowers" presents an abstract green rendition of a floral landscape depicting a beautiful green landscape filled with wildflowers. I describe my art as a form of visual poetry, aiming for this floral landscape to evoke the idea of romance while remaining engaging and contemporary. “Wildflowers” captures romantic fields while the nature depicted emerges to tell stories of far away lands. With this, my intent is to create meaningful work that celebrates my love for nature and the environment along with nature’s importance in our lives.
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