THE DARK HOUSE OF GLORIA
03–04–2021Solo exhibition
Hashimoto Contemporary
San Francisco, USA
The Dark House of Gloria a solo exhibition of new works by Dutch artist Martine Johanna. Joining us for her second show, the prismatic figures within Johanna’s paintings and drawings smolder with introspection and complexity.
Alongside the hyper pigmented paintings in the exhibition are the graphite studies for each accompanying piece. The gray scale works are equally evocative and expressive in their textural mark making and gestures.
The fictitious environment of The Dark House of Gloria is a place “where stark contrasts are fighting to be unified or seperated. The works full of fire and optimism collide with suggestions of mourning, sorrow, loss and other harsh life experiences and its destructive effects.” Each of Johanna’s figures ricochet among opposing emotions - reality and fantasy, escapism and stasis, ferocity and vulnerability, seperation and unification, optimism and depression, intensity and tenderness.
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2021
AT THE EDGE OF REALISM
30-10-2021Group exhibition
KIRK GALLERY
Aalborg, Denmark
Featured artists: Martine Johanna | Kathrin Longhurst | Johan Barrios | Denis Sarazhin | Mark Tennant | Aron Wiesenfeld | Thierry Carrier | Helen Bur
3 allegorical works painted on dark backgrounds as a follow-up the solo exhibition, Surrender Dorothy 2020.
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2021
LA Inaugural
10–09–2021Group exhibition
Hashimoto Contemporary
Los Angeles, USA
Hashimoto Contemporary Los Angeles location, in the heart of Culver City. At the 2500 sq. ft. flagship location opened on Friday, September 10th with a grand opening group exhibition featured a survey of two dozen artists past and present. The Los Angeles location will mark the addition of a third city to the Hashimoto Contemporary family founded by the woderful Ken Hashimoto.
This work is a wrap-up of the solo show The Dark House of Gloria, like a coming to terms.
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