Markings 01,
2016, ink of staff paper, 8 ½” x 11”
LMAKgallery
is pleased to present Unmappings, a solo exhibition by Nayda Collazo-Llorens.
On view will be a new series of works furthering Collazo-Llorens’ ongoing
explorations on concepts of perception, navigation and mapping. The artist
brings together existing and unchartered territories as she unravels that which
is found, remembered and imagined.
The wall
installation, Geo Dis/connect #4 incorporates a sampling approach through which
collected maps and charts have been sliced and remixed. In this case, the
artist combines lunar charts with nautical and aeronautical charts of the
Caribbean region, adding curved areas of solid color that function as
spotlights or highlights as well as cover-ups or concealers of information. The
360 framed images that make up Geo Dis/connect #4 offer a view of a landscape
that has been shifted and dislocated. Its scrambled cartographic data renders
traditional navigation obsolete.
A5 Survey #
1, 2018, ink on archival pigment print, 8 7/8” x 18 7/8”
Unmappings
also includes a new series of smaller scale works on paper. These are an
intimate and intuitive collection of marks, fictitious landmasses, and found
maps, charts, images and documents that have been intervened by the artist.
Less specifically grounded in geography, these works expand in multiple
directions and focus. Non-objective marks coexist with traces of remembered
movements, invented sites, pseudo-science and shifted cartographic conventions.
Through these works—some functioning as images, others as
artifacts—Collazo-Llorens investigates and surveys a series of elusive
coordinates as they drift in time and space.
Nayda
Collazo-Llorens, born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a visual artist engaged in
an interdisciplinary practice incorporating multiple mediums and strategies.
Through her practice, she examines the way in which we perceive and process
information, dealing with concepts of navigation, memory, language,
hyperconnectivity and noise.
Detail Geo Dis/connect
# 4, 2016, 360 framed
collages with found maps
4” x 6”
each overall approximately 5 x 6 feet
Her work
was recently included in Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the
Caribbean Archipelago curated by Tatiana Flores at the Museum of Latin American
Art in Long Beach, California as part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time:
LA/LA, and in the Museum of the Real and Odd at The Tube Factory in
Indianapolis, Indiana. Recent projects have included MACRO2NANO a permanent
public art commission for New College of Florida in Sarasota, in collaboration
with Patricia Villalobos Echeverría; ELF (Extremely Low Frequency), a video and
portfolio of prints produced in collaboration with writer Ander Monson, and the
multimedia performance ELF, featuring the video and live performance of
ELFsong, an electroacoustic composition by composer Ashlee Busch for piano,
violin and stereo playback. ELF has been performed at various venues, most
recently at the New Music Festival 2017 in Fairmont, West Virginia.
Collazo-Llorens
received an MFA from New York University and is a former Pollock-Krasner
Foundation Fellow. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art Net,
Art US, Art Nexus, Art News, Arte al Día International, BOMBlog, Hyperallergic,
and Newcity, among others.
March 23 –
April 29, 2018
Opening:
Friday, March 23 from 6-8 pm
LMAKgallery:
298 Grand Street New York, NY 10002, between Eldridge and Allan Street
For more
information or press inquiries, please contact Bart or Louky Keijsers Koning at
Bart@lmakgallery.com, Louky@lmakgallery.com or call 212 255 9707.
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