Art Labor Gallery is displaying works by Christy Lee Rogers at its Shanghai venue in an exhibition titled “Muses.”The exhibition will feature new photographic works, new media and textile installation by Hawaiian-born artist Christy Lee Rogers (b. 1972). The solo exhibition features works the artist’s pioneer underwater photographic style and technique. These have earned the artist international acclaim, her work embraces the unique quality of light refraction between the surface and layers of water, and her personal approach is to honor and explore the frailty of our existence within the elements around the audience.“Obsessed with the transformative qualities of water, Rogers uses it once again as her muse, pushing toward a new boundary for herself both artistically and emotionally. This collection of entirely new work, thus titled ‘Muses,’ is derived from the sources of that inspiration itself, and the depths to which an individual will go to find and hold on to that inspiration, until a new spark of insight is needed, once its predecessor has vanished. It’s this mechanism that Rogers delves deep into and what she reveres, as it is common to all of us and never ending,” says the gallery. “She finds in the creation of a body of work all this trapped passion, which is then finally unleashed in all its glory, but then so it fades and to be desired again yet again. Out of this desire to connect with the universe and a certain knowledge of what is beyond our current reality is then intensified, after having had some glimpse of the possibilities deep down into our own ship of treasures, filled with immaterial and material wealth.”In the current exhibition one can also see the colors and cascading bodies take on late Renaissance and Baroque tones, with chiaroscuro contrasts of light and darkness creating movement and purpose within each scene. The exhibition is on view through August 8, 2018, at Art Labor Gallery, 101 Haifang Lu, near Changhua Lu, Shanghai, China. For details, visit: http://encn.blouinartinfo.com/galleryguide/art-labor-gallery/overview Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition.http://www.blouinartinfo.com Founder: Louise Blouin
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