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In both In June Park’s paintings and Andrius Alvarez-Backus’s sculptures, fragments of daily life appear out of context, evoking both recognition and uncertainty. Body parts and household objects become self-contained artifacts–details that might otherwise be lost amid the noise of overstimulation. In retraining our focus onto an unseen whole, the specificity of which ultimately gives way to indeterminacy, the artists reenact an increasingly familiar tension: the pull between the human desire for intimacy and a cultural drift toward impermanence.
If the blend of realism and abstraction in “Ordinary Permanence” captures a certain contemporary psychology, it is one that Park and Alvarez-Backus know intimately. As students of Columbia’s MFA program, from which they both graduated earlier this year, the uncertainty that marks every young artist’s life was intensified by an atmosphere of political unrest and institutional upheaval.
If their practices are any indicatio…
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In both In June Park’s paintings and Andrius Alvarez-Backus’s sculptures, fragments of daily life appear out of context, evoking both recognition and uncertainty. Body parts and household objects become self-contained artifacts–details that might otherwise be lost amid the noise of overstimulation. In retraining our focus onto an unseen whole, the specificity of which ultimately gives way to indeterminacy, the artists reenact an increasingly familiar tension: the pull between the human desire for intimacy and a cultural drift toward impermanence.
If the blend of realism and abstraction in “Ordinary Permanence” captures a certain contemporary psychology, it is one that Park and Alvarez-Backus know intimately. As students of Columbia’s MFA program, from which they both graduated earlier this year, the uncertainty that marks every young artist’s life was intensified by an atmosphere of political unrest and institutional upheaval.
If their practices are any indicatio…
