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Gallery70 is proud to participate at TRYST Art Fair. This fair presents a panorama of diverse artistic voices addressing a range of issues from different types of artist groups, with various structures, that exemplify the myriad ways that these initiatives support and grow the art world.
Join us at Booth 55 to celebrate artists Millie Benson (USA) and Jon Kraja (AL)
Friday October 27th: (preview) 4-6pm
Saturday and Sunday : October 28th -29th: 12-6pm
Del Amo Crossing, California 21515 Hawthorne Blvd, Torrance, California, 90503
About the Planet Paintings:
Millie Benson's tiny planet portrait series offers a luxurious exploration into color theory, process, and performative painting all while traveling through an outer an inner space of swirls, spray paint, fine brushstrokes, stenciled shapes and delicately layered painting techniques. The paint is hung on the organic and repetitive shapes of the universe and the geometric structures which represent the ways in which we measure these organic and unknown things in order to get to know them and understand them better.
About Symphony of Mockery :
The series of paintings Symphony of Mockery by Jon Kraja are time lapses of our daily life where everything and everyone: beauty, television , show , backstage, carnival, social media, Disney hero, politics , seem engaged in a mocking role.Jamming the images is a futile effort that only empowers the fantasies.
The artwork is build by constructing and deconstructing the image. The brutal spill over of the color destroys the figure and the original order , provoking the chaos that delivers the final image. Jon Kraja introduces in this series, a gestural , central black and white, irregular line “I don’t know if it is a frequency of energy , a childhood flashback of the jamming image, as seen in the TV** , or a fragment of heart ECG. But I know that it helps me to tell a story in multiple levels ”
Symphony of Mockery depicts moments of the constant and never-ending mocking human performance , under the lights of chandeliers, wondering if mockery has become our only way to communicate .
** during communism in Albania, the government was jamming the signal of international radio and TV channels in order to control all the information.
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Millie Benson is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her paintings and photographs have been shown throughout the United States and internationally. Benson moves fluidly between the mediums and methods of composing photographs, to an embodied painting practice.
Benson periodically curates art shows. She maintains a space in the Brooklyn Navy Yard .
Ms. Benson holds a bachelor’s degree from Cleveland Institute of Art and a master’s degree in fine arts from Hunter College.
Jon Kraja (b.1970) is an Albanian artist, working on painting, sculpture, installation and set design. He emerged in the art scene in the 90ies, after the fall of communism in Albania, producing surprising concepts in set design and working on gestural large scale abstract and figurative painting .
“I believe art is about one’s heart rather than one’s brain.” says him while asked to define his art .
Jon Kraja has exhibited internationally and in Albania. He graduated in Art Ma
Del Amo Crossing, California 21515 Hawthorne Blvd, Torrance, California, 90503
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