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Carvalho Park opens the first exhibition of Paris-based artist Garance Vallée in the United States
Installation view.
BROOKLYN, NY
.-Carvalho Park announces the first exhibition of Paris-based artist, designer and architect, Garance Vallée, in the United States. Portrait de Famille, a solo exhibition, features a suite of paintings, drawings and sculptures of Vallées distinct and indelible language. Portrait de Famille, is on view at Carvalho Park in Brooklyn until March 20.
Vallées scenes are an invitation into her singular vision. Of an articulated Surrealist doctrine, these interior spaces are suspended between representation and non, volume and silhouette, tangibility and fiction, inquiry and play. These are inhabitable, contemplative spaces, filled with precise forms. At once environment and still life, Vallées scenes tilt towards abstraction as forms oscillate between two and three-dimensionality. Vallées objects tempt us to pluck them from the picture
Brush Fire (2020). Courtesy of Kohn Gallery.
Los Angeles-based, Dallas-born artist Kate Barbee creates expressive, wildly colorful large-scale paintings filled with tumbling human figures amid domestic settings. To make her works, Barbee often starts out drawing onto the canvas on her studio floor. The works end with Barbee sometimes sewing patches of fabric or discarded canvases onto the new works. Barbee’s latest works, “Feral Floral,” are currently on view with Kohn Gallery and were made entirely during the pandemic. Here, the tangles of her figures’ forms are interspersed with houseplants, ceramics, and the various nicknacks of a home. At times, the works capture the energy of the German Expressionist, other times the dreaminess of Marc Chagall’s atmospheric scenes, but are filled with a very contemporary sense of longing.