STRUCTURE and FLUIDITY: Joanna Gabler & Marjorie Kaye

Future Lab(s) Gallery is pleased to present “Structure and Fluidity”, with artists Joanna Gabler and Marjorie Kaye. In this exhibition the artists find a meeting point in seemingly opposite disciplines. Both artists peer into the mysteries of the unknown, giving form to the nebulous energies of intuitive reception.

Joanna Gabler works instinctively, partnering with the chance flow of paint across the surface. She employs decision making as to its direction, coaxing the composition with flexible intent. She states: “My love for strong colors never wavers. I explored color for many years while painting with oils and simultaneously working on transcapes (my photographs of landscapes transformed by my imagination). In the past few years, I have been longing for a more fluid medium. I started working with acrylics. I call my technique ‘structured flow’. All of my work in this exhibition is executed in this way.

Marjorie Kaye builds sequences, adding to a primary shape, with each successive form getting larger and more complex, mirroring growth from cellular beginnings to complex formation. Her work manifests similarly to an explosion of a geode. The commonality of momentum is what drives each work and results from the exploration of the one before it. They are one continuous piece, accessible fractals. Details emerge from one basic pattern into a vast array of shapes. It is a net that captures and comprises the structure of the material universe, as well as that which can only be sensed.

There is a point, an apex in the space between Gabler and Kaye’s work, a place where the opposition of technique meets the similarity of intent. Both artists investigate and approach the dichotomy between structure and fluidity.

“Art is and always will be sacred and the secret gate between the invisible and visible”.

-Joanna Gabler