Crucible Opening Reception

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Join us this Saturday 6pm-10pm for the opening of our first show "Crucible." RSVP to attend our Sushi/Sake reception from 6pm-8pm featuring sustainable sushi provided by Ki Sushi!

Mirus Gallery presents its Inaugural Exhibition:
Crucible
Collaborative works by Damon Soule, David Choong Lee, Mars-1, NoMe Edonna, Oliver Vernon

Mirus Gallery is pleased to announce its launch with the inaugural exhibition, Crucible: collaborative works by artists Damon Soule, David Choong Lee, Mars-1, NoMe Edonna and Oliver Vernon who will each be exhibiting new solo works alongside a number of the collective’s large-scale collaborative paintings.

This exhibition marks the opening of Mirus Gallery, a new gallery space in downtown San Francisco. Run by art collector and entrepreneur Paul Hemming, the programming will be marked by a commitment to championing new movements in contemporary art. Crucible is co-curated by long-time art collector, Brian Chambers. The opening reception for Crucible will be held on November 10, 2012 from 6pm – 10pm. The exhibition will be on view through December 1, 2012.

“At times it feels as if painting is alchemy. We throw in the many ingredients of painting technique and abstract language; they mix, dissolve, simmer, combust, coagulate into new forms and spaces. To grapple with the age-old tradition of paint while aiming for a pure and contemporary expression can be an arduous test of fortitude and perseverance.”

– Oliver Vernon discussing Crucible

The centerpiece for Crucible is an eponymously titled collaborative work, a 7 x 16 foot canvas created over the course of one week spent in the Black Rock Desert. Compositionally complex, with intricate shapes and geometric patterning that resonate virtuosity. While the painting is ultimately an abstracted work comprised of line, color and form, these fundamental visual elements pulse and contract creating a dimensionality that evokes representational elements of the natural world such as space, movement and depth. In this work, the celestial and the terrestrial converge with overt references to the natural world; quasi-meteorological forms resembling whirling tornadoes, geological allusions to bodies of water and astral patterns blanket the canvas and saturate the eye.

“Crucible” is a collective reference point for the visual language explored by each of the collaborating artists. This exhibition will also include individual works by the artists produced autonomously or outside of the collective. Individually produced works are included in this exhibition to illuminate the artists’ collective efforts in their synergistic work while simultaneously highlighting each artist as a singular facet of the creative prismatic whole. For instance, viewers can look at a piece by an individual artist and see the way that artist’s style is echoed in the collective’s shared artwork. In this way Crucible aims to showcase the dialogue that takes place between these artists, whether it is on a shared canvas or manifested in their solo work.

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