Gisela
Colon PODS, Castellani Art Museum, Niagara, New York
The Castellani Art
Museum of Niagara University is pleased to present an exhibition of sculptures
by Los Angeles based artist Gisela Colón. Glo-Pods the exhibition will run
through February 12, 2017.
Gisela Colón’s
Glo-Pods are made of blow-molded plastic and have a swelling, asymmetrical
geometry that suggests both organic and liquid forms. The sculptures’ inner
core of iridescent, reflective pigment creates the experience of colored light
emanating from within. Colón says, “These are autonomous, non-representational
objects that provide a perceptual experience of light, color, and space. The
viewer encounters a ‘different’ object each time he or she sees a piece, since
the interior colors are constantly morphing, depending on lighting conditions
and the angle at which they are viewed. These objects have the consistent
qualities of their asymmetrical, biomorphic forms, and the radiant, colored
light embedded within them. Although it is non-referential, this work has an
organic feeling, like a cell that is alive and pulsating with energy, growing
and mutating.”
Gisela
Colon PODS, Castellani Art Museum, Niagara, New York
Colón drew her
inspiration for the Glo-Pods series from the work of the Light-and-Space and Fetish/Finish
art movements that had begun in southern California in the 1960s. Colón
responded to their focus on perception and to the creation of minimalist forms
infused with light and color. An important influence was DeWain Valentine,
whose sculptures were in cast plastic meld form and color. In 2012, Colón’s
initial sculptural works were long, bulging forms in blow-molded plastic, whose
concave interior was spray painted, often in three gradually changing colors.
In what she describes as a “breakthrough”, towards the end of that year Colón
began her on-going series of Glo-Pods by embedding luminous color within the
curving, biomorphic forms.
Colon’s work is the
subject of a national museum exhibition tour which commenced at The Butler
Institute of American Art, Youngstown Ohio (September 2015- March 2016),
travelling throughout the United States to multiple institutions as follows:
International Museum of Art & Science (IMAS), McAllen, Texas (April 14-
August 7, 2016); Castellani Art Museum, Niagara, New York (August 28, 2016-
February 12, 2017); Museum of Arts and Sciences (MAS), Macon, Georgia (March 3
– June 11 2017); Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico (June 30 –
September 24, 2017); San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas (December
15, 2017 – February 4, 2018); Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia,
Misssouri (September - December 2018).
Colon’s work is also the subject of thematic museum presentations in the
US and Europe at the Grand Rapids Art Museum (September 2016); the Palmer
Museum of Art, Penn State University, Pennsylvania (Fall 2017), the Kunstmuseum
Wilhelm-Morgner Haus, Soest, Germany (2014); the Chabot Museum, The Netherlands
(2016); and the Neuer Kunstverein, Kunstlanding, Aschaffenburg, Germany (May -
July 2017).
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