LOVER’S CONCERTO

Works by Kate Pincus-Whitney, Merrick Adams, Nabilah Nordin, Nick Modrzewski, Jude Pauli, David Korty, Yoora Lee & Jungwoo Lee

December 17th, 2024 –February 15th 2025

WORKS

Spanning both figurative and abstract works, the exhibition brings together examples of contemporary painting, sculpture and conceptual video in a celebration of introspection, duality and personal connection, echoing the writing of The Divine Image by William Blake, “Love, the human form divine.”

Upon entering Lover’s Concerto at the gallery space, the viewer is invited to reflect on the bodily quality of desire and desire’s promise of transcendence. Jungwoo Lee’s video work Roro and Bobo’s Moments of Love, 2024 explores how when true feelings are unknowable, they appear to love, sulk, dance, and even mate—blurring the lines between artificial intelligence and emotional expression. Paired with Yoora Lee’s Lover’s Concerto, 2024 and Bubble Gum, 2024, we can see how impressionistic and dream-like moments emerge. Contiguous to the distortions inherent to video tapes, her horizontal marks and subtle pastel color relationships trace ethereal scenes, memories and illusory places.

Similarly ethereal and rendered in a combination of welded steel, wood, cement oxide and granite powder, the monumental sculptures Pillar, 2024 and Article, 2024 by Nabilah Nordin anchor the exhibition in visual dialogue with Nick Modrzewski’s large-scale oil painting Triumph and Glory, 2024. The evocative and bodily forms trace energy and movement alongside a raw treatment of surface, line and space. Observing both together demonstrates a poetic entanglement and coalescence that alludes to being in close embrace with another, akin to a metamorphosis.

Building upon these compositions, David Korty’s Untitled (Stadium Painting #1), 2024 renders a luminous vision of lovers and couples in public, demonstrating an innocence and softness that is inherent to our interior universes when connected to collective memory. Furthermore, his partner Jude Pauli’s seemingly weightless sculpture Untitled #66 (Fifteen Part Vertical Construction in White Clay Body), 2024 renders the effect of an immaterial volume constructed by intricate combinations of the earth’s naturally occurring clay deposits, stoneware and steel.

Close observation of these works is rewarded by finding intricate and delicate details in each scene. For Merrick Adams, Sailor’s Delight, 2024 and Orange Ocean Blues, 2022 point toward looking further inward, ever deeper, to observe a subtle story not only of color and surface, but also of light, love and infinity in a natural landscape. Displayed together in dialogue with his partner Kate Pincus-Whitney, we can notice a vibrant creative exchange that is joyous, expressive and palpable in her inimitable scenes Water For My Soul, 2024 and Light In The Darkest Night, 2024.

Lover’s Concerto as an exhibition creates a collective space for learning, maturing and growing the spiritual self. We are thrilled to bring together these four artistic couples who have become vital and embedded to the Los Angeles artistic community and invite guests to share in the gallery space as a loving, flourishing home where geographically and stylistically diverse influences gather and thrive.