Quantum Matter, Curated by GENIE DAVIS opens March 22nd at Matter Gallery, Los Angeles, is an immersive group exhibition featuring multiple works in mixed media, oil and acrylic painting, collage, and sculpture by artists Susan Ossman, Angelica Sotiriou, Monica Marks, Karena Massengill, and Sandra Vista.
The exhibition explores each artist’s own unique vision of all things connected, great and small. As a scientific definition, quantum matter can be topological and refer to emergent order and exotic properties. These artists each express and experience such, from the vastness of the lines, conjoined brush strokes, and brilliant hues of international artist Susan Ossman to the lush and intensely lovely abstract spiritual landscapes of Angelica Sotiriou to the landscapes of desert, raw earth, and sky of Monica Marks, these artists exhibit vast and fascinating vistas that speak to a rich accumulation of the proportional or quantum energy of the world. For sculptural artists Karena Massengill and Sandra Vista, matter is an infinite use of materials as diverse as beading and gourds for Vista and fine metal works in amazingly detailed shapes from Massengill.
The quantum world may defy conventional logic, but creates its own, intense, magnetic language, as do the artists in this beautiful, seminal exhibition. The exploration of the visionary and the unseen, the massive in terms of emotion, brush stroke, sculpted forms, small elements made large when conjoined all comprises the mystical, magical work in this exhibition. The unexpected and the uncanny, the infinite and the minute are all encompassed in a collection of lustrous work.
- Genie Davis, curator
"I regard matter as derived from consciousness." — Max Planck
"We are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe." — Stephen Hawking
