VB Contemporary is pleased to announce the selected artists for the upcoming "Summer Haze" art exhibition. The exhibition brings together an amazing number of accomplished and talented artists and photographers. The exhibition celebrates the theme of "Summer" with all its sentiments. Sunlit views, blue waves, yellows and blues of Summer hues, the fun in the sun and reflections of the summer season through the creators artistic take are presented in this whimsical exhibition.
Artists in the exhibition are:
Amber Lauder, Kazu Saito, Jason Rafferty, Gabriela Horikawa, Juan Canals, Sigrid Thaler, Satoshi Morita, Lisa Kachajian, Katsumi Ishikawa, Zoltán Vadászi, Vian Borchert
About the Concept:
The Summer haze theme is delivered in a plenitude of abstracted styles and mediums. Nostalgia and memories take center stage to Summer days well spent under the sun. The exhibited artists deliver varying conceptual aspects and philosophies of reminiscence via a dreamy outlook to what Summer entails.
Concept and curation by Vian Borchert
Exhibition Dates: June 5 - July 31, 2024.
The catalog for the exhibit "SUMMER HAZE" is available for Download
Eternal Summer
Eternal Summer
24 x 34 inches (h x w)
Digital Photo
2023
About the Artwork:
Amber Lauder states this about her creative process, "The majority of my work combines the beauty of the natural world with the whimsy of experimental film techniques. The experimental method used in these photos is called film soup. My favorite way to describe film soup is “messing up my film to make the photos even more beautiful than they would have been had I not souped them. A mouthful, but an accurate description. I shoot a roll of film, drop it in a mason jar and fill the jar with boiling water and other household ingredients, all with the film canister still in the jar. After agitating the film periodically and letting it sit for around 12 hours, I rinse it for 2-5 minutes, put the film on a sunny windowsill and let it dry for two weeks before sending it off to a film lab that accepts film soup. The results are pure magic. Sometimes, the ingredients used in the film soup overtake frames completely, which can create beautiful, painterly scenes of color."
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HOSHI GATARI
HOSHI GATARI
16 x 14 inches (h x w)
Nihonga/On Japanese Washi paper
2024
About the Artwork:
Kazu Saito describes this artwork through these lines, "Two people walking along a rice paddy path reflecting the summer full moon. The lights of the distant city and the stars seem to be blessing the two of them.
What are they talking about?
Who are you?
It's just your image."
HOSHI GATARI means "Star Story".
Kazu Saito wants to explore and pursue "beauty" in the everyday. Saito also wants to spread that knowledge to the world and deliver it to the whole world as well.
Detail - Medium: Nihonga painting / on washi paper.
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Lotus Field
Lotus Field
28 x 33 inches (h x w)
Digital Photo
2016
About the Artwork:
A photo of a lotus field in a pond in Japan.
About the Lotus Plant:
In the Summer season, one can contemplate on the traditional lotus flowers blooming in Japan,
the lotus flower is a symbol of Japan's historical background. It has been used in numerous
traditional Japanese gardens and ponds all around Japan. A symbol of enlightenment and the
purity of spirit, the Japanese Lotus is one of the most beautiful plants in the world; It is
tall with its gorgeous green leaves which are enormous, and the flower (pink, red, or white)
is beautiful.
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Transcendence
Transcendence
30 x 15 inches (h x w)
Acrylic on Canvas
2023
About the Artwork:
This acrylic on canvas painting presents Borchert’s abstract skyscape capturing light colors of the blue sky along with yellows. The artwork showcases different hues and tones of blues, white and lemon yellow hues. Borchert with this work aims to highlight the beauty of the color blue and yellow, its lightness and airy quality through an abstracted skyscape that illuminates hope and elation and with such, sentiments of transcendence start occurring.
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Lake Balaton Vibe #2
Lake Balaton Vibe #2
24 x 24 inches (h x w)
Photo
2024
About the Artwork:
Photographer Zoltán Vadászi states this about the artwork, "Lake Balaton is the biggest lake in Hungary also called The Hungarian Sea, however it is not. For me it is a special place close to nature and always acts as an endless inspirational location." Moreover Zoltan voices this about his photography practice, "I am searching for and trying to push the limits of post-photography, however I frequently use analogue instant techniques as well."
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In Her Wildest Dreams
IN HER WILDEST DREAMS
23 x 17 inches (h x w)
Digital Photo
2020
About the Artwork:
Photographer Lisa Kachajian describes this work through these words, "With Kelly, a Welsh Pony. A moment between reality and dreams. Imagining her world, her basic needs and desires, along with my own."
Lisa Kachajian states that her photography is a practice that "begins as a meditation, a thought, a feeling, a sensory perception, while the world becomes a curiosity to my imagination. Looking closely at the scene, mood, and gesture, the perceived reality transforms into a visceral language" Kachajian feels that a desire to portray what she sees and feels reflecting "that what is unseen, deeply connected, an expression evocatively reinterpreted by the camera in ways words may fail to express adequately, to create a sense of place in and of itself."
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Looking Twice
Looking Twice
11 x 6.5 inches (h x w)
Oil & Mixed Media
2022
About the Artwork:
Jason Rafferty's possible Landscapes' artwork explores an emotional narrative of climate change
and the transition to sustainability, related in the metaphorical space of a school classroom
immediately before and after a vague cataclysm takes place. Rafferty states, "This work grows out
of past experiences as a climate activist and as an art educator working with youth at a STEM-oriented
middle school. The classroom serves as a theatrical stage from which to launch into speculations about
climate futures."
Details - Medium: Oil and collage on paper mounted to board with artist-made oak frame.
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Daytrip
Daytrip
52 x 36 inches (h x w)
Acrylic on Canvas
2022
About the Artwork:
Gabriela Horikawa reflects on her artwork by stating, "Summertime memories, family time, and children at play are the inspiration for this series I’ve been working on for these past two years.
Personal memories are represented in abstract compositions where figures are drawn and erased during the painting process. The final result is unknown, each painting is evolving as I work on them until I feel that it has been completed. My paintings are not perfect; I paint memories, feelings drawn from a deep process of intimate reflection."
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KAME
KAME
20 x 14 inches (h x w)
Mixed Media on Paper
2024
About the Artwork:
Satoshi Morita describes this work through these lines, "Slowly, straight ahead… the tortoise passed through the space."
Satoshi Morita states that he aims to make " the invisible visible. Projecting new stories. Sharing new lights.” while exploring unknown light and darkness and expressing a story about how light and darkness are reconciled. Morita's painting process and technique encompasses a number of mixed media along with approaching the work from varying angles, he exclaims, "I paint, rub, scrape, and do various things whatever I think of. My body just follows along with my energy and inspiration. I feel this natural movement of my body is my technique and that makes my art unique." In regards to inspiration, Morita voices that he asks himself , "Is the source heaven, hell, or even the universe? I am playing with the image whichever source it comes from."
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UOMINI
UOMINI
16 x 16 inches (h x w)
Mixed Media
2023
About the Artwork:
Sigrid Thaler states this about the artwork: "Dark and light, shadows reflecting different sides in us." Details - Medium: painted with black iron using acrylic, oil pastel, enamels, and painting spray.
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Maquina
Maquina
28 x 20 inches (h x w)
Mixed Mida
2003
About the Artwork:
Maquina means machines in Spanish. Juan Canals Carreras states about the work that, "I remember when I was little my uncle in his small textile workshop, I was very taken by seeing the machines in motion and above all that this synchronous movement was capable of creating objects. Machines were little creative beings. That idea of machines that create things led me to study precisely the specialty of Machine Tools for a time." Details: Painting and Collage on paper.
Artist Statement:
Juan Canals Carreras exclaims about his art practice, " My work is to a certain extent a diary of painted emotions. In my painting there is a struggle between figuration and abstraction. Sometimes one end wins, sometimes not. Yet, to some extent, both ends are present. They cohabit in the plane of the artwork. Many times, the majority of the support ends up supporting an infinite number of interventions that take place over time. Most of my work is in mixed painting techniques.
As the pictorial art practice, I experience resistance when I consider carrying out a previously planned or configured project - Therefore, I let it flow. I work mainly from the impulse or drive, collecting some of the methods used in the surrealist era, in this way, the work is constructed in a non-foreseeable or predictable way, but once that period of drive has passed, a more constructivist action is built conditions towards subsequent transformations.
A desire to give value not only to the work as a finished artifact, but also to those attempts that have not reached completion, but that have occupied time and space in the artist's processual journey is reflected and thus giving relic value to a portion of executed work and passage of time of the person who executes the work. Automations, letting the emotions, the moment, let whatever has to happen flow. I am you, you are me, we are energy that interacts. I also tend to capture references that are part of my imagination. Possibly the flying devices from my teen times."
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