Juxtapoz Magazine - Peter Opheim and Adam Handler are Warriors and Ghosts

GR Gallery is pleased to current Warriors and Ghosts, a primary duo exhibition of Peter Opheim and Adam Handler. The present will feature a complete of 21 performs, independently created by the two artists appositely for this occasion, that will obstacle the exhibition title by unleashing a range of ghostly paintings and abstraction stuffed warrior-like figures that will captivate and invite viewers into an practical experience that illuminates a vibrancy of colors and textures.

Warriors and Ghosts” aims to show distinctive procedures that immerse the viewer into a chaotically imaginative globe. The two artists make a wonderful realm, populated by whimsical characters that mirror on childish demeanor nonetheless also figuring out expressions in the variety of solitude, creativity, thoughts, and connections. Peter Opheim’s oil paintings are home windows into a entire world of fanciful entropy, pushing boundaries by the unconventional and provocative juxtaposition of childlike inspirations with adult views and thoughts. Opheim to start with results in clay figures that are at after glaring and enriched, then translates his people on to canvasses. His colorful clay collectible figurines embark his childish fears that are rooted in deformed entire body parts, unnatural shades, like an archetypal worry that hides guiding the innocence of the plot in fairy tales.

Adam Handler makes vividly aesthetic operates that cultivate elegance by returning to the supposed primal or elementary beginnings, adopting a little one-like type, questioning our conceptions of and presumptions about our surrounding actuality. Adam establishes his paintings on the ground leaning above the piece it is really a particular and psychical working experience. Within these intimate confines he feels free of charge to experiment with new principles. Lots of of the very small die-slash is effective on show depict a purging of his views, passions, insecurities, nightmares and dreams. Adam’s enchanting figures evoke kawaii, Japan’s culture of cuteness, floating in remarkably patterned, kaleidoscopic environments. Nevertheless, they also place towards our inner craving for the uncooked psychological states of adolescence. Handler’s paintings are finally maximalist odes to the creativity, populated with psychedelic gardens and surreal spirits.