TAYLOR & PONCE | “OPEN STUDIO”, Thursday, May 2nd, 2024
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 2nd, 2024, 6 – 9 PM | Curated by Diego Ponce
We are delighted to announce the opening of TAYLOR & PONCE CONTEMPORARY, a studio opening, featuring a curated selection of artworks In honor of our launch, we are curating a new show featuring art pieces by a selection of the NYC artists we have worked with in recent years.
We will exhibit pieces by
Tim Okamura investigates identity, the urban environment, metaphor and cultural iconography through painting. By combining an essentially “realist” approach to the figure with collage, spray paint and mixed media, he juxtaposes the rawness and urgency of street art with academic ideals to create a visual language that acknowledges a traditional form of story-telling through portraiture, while infusing the work with resonant contemporary motifs
Olga Spiegel, Psyche-Realism, the mind’s eye, and the Art of Pareidolia. I was born and raised in Europe, now live and have established my studio in New York City. I find my freedom at the wild frontier of Imagination and my work is nurtured by Psychedelic Art in the 60s European Fantastic realism, Surrealism, and Science Fiction
HEKTAD, was raised in the Bronx, NY. Hektad started in 1981 at age of 12, hitting it hard in the Graffiti culture nonstop until 1999. The moniker, Hektad manifest as a merging of the tag Hektad and the acronym TAD for ‘They Always Destroy’ which was the name of Hektad’s first teenage crew, established in 1984.
Diane Detalle, is a French-born, American based painter. Energetic, intricate and spontaneous, her work embodies the dual traditions of European and American abstract art. This fine balance between unpredictability and a disciplined and focused self-control is at the core of Detalle’s artistic process in the studio. She describes how each painting is inspired by ’emotional pressure’… her need to react to a psychological state or a process of spontaneously travelling through a sensation, sound or vision.
Izabela Gola, works with multimedia narrative environments, including porcelain sculpture, video, and installation, which explore ideas revolving around memory, identity, and displacement, expressed through the conventional relationship between a figure and a landscape. Gola works with landscapes and imagery sourced from her own biography. Memories related to events, characters, and places from her life experience are transcribed into blue glaze paintings depicting obscured landscapes with hints of figuration and abstraction, painted on porcelain plates resembling hanging shrouds.
James Porto, When he was 11 years old James Porto discovered the black-and-white photographic process and became utterly obsessed with taking photographs and making prints. Fairly quickly however he became bored with pure photography and would manipulate his photographs in the darkroom using techniques such as solarization, printing multiple negatives onto a single sheet of paper, and doing multiple exposures in the camera. His new body of work, featured in Strange Visitors, is a departure from the figural work he previously made. However, while the fractal images in this exhibition are comprised of abstract patterns and colors rather than the human form, they maintain Porto’s interest in human connection to artistic practice. Rather than focusing on an individual figure, Porto’s new abstract works represent a shared state of consciousness where all beings are linked.
Louis Rodiger, a citizen of both Tijuana and San Diego, was nurtured by his witchy medium grandmother, inheriting a unique perspective on the world. Despite a tumultuous upbringing filled with visions and nightmares, his connection to the spirit world guided him. Struggling to connect with others until later in life when he found solace in music, forming a band that became his refuge. However, his visions intensified, leading him to discover photography as a medium to express his innermost thoughts and navigate the complexities of his experiences. Music and photography have been his salvation, transforming his darkness into purpose and granting him a sense of normalcy. Embracing his shadows, he finds solace and inspiration, forging a deep connection between his art and his journey through life.
Fernando Espinosa, From fashion models to drag queens, from the harsh landscapes and wildlife of the Galapagos to the architecture of New York City, Fernando Espinosa Chauvin’s work is characterized by his unique artistic sensitivity to the world around him. He explores this through exceptional and innovative use of lighting techniques, capturing photographs that are complex, sophisticated, and refined. Born in Ecuador, Espinosa has taught illumination techniques at photography workshops hosted by the International Centre of Photography in New York
