Imaginary Elsewhere
A Group Exhibition
September 3 – 14, 2022
The anachronistic works in the exhibition revolve around impressions of the past informed by extant media rather than lived experiences. This expression of bygone eras is evident not only in how they depict consumer products, technologies, and fashion and design sensibilities that, albeit obsolete, remain iconic and characteristic of certain periods but, in using black-and-white or sepia palettes and replicating effects (e.g., foxing) that signify deterioration, many simulate how the past has been represented and mediated through practices like photography and printing.
Hence, the works in the show express nostalgia, a sentimentality not for a past tinged with personal experiences but for speculated and idyllic ones. The artists’ fascination for an imagined past also suggests a shared attitude towards our current condition a desire to retreat from the pressures of the present and seek respite in dreamlike settings, an “Imaginary Elsewhere,” yearning for a tranquil yet irrecoverable state.
– Dominic Zinampan
“Full Flowering”
Oil on Canvas | 48 x 24 inches | 2022
“Little Fruit of Labor”
Oil on Canvas | 36 x 24 inches | 2022
“And So, The Story Began”
Oil on Canvas | 24 x 36 inches | 2022
“Life’s Never Ending Story”
Oil on Canvas | 24 x 36 inches | 2022
“Faded Memories”
Oil on Canvas | 36 x 24 inches | 2022
“Home and Love”
Oil on Canvas | 36 x 24 inches | 2022
“What’s in There isn’t Actually There”
Oil on Canvas | 36 x 24 inches | 2022
“When She Left”
Oil on Canvas | 24 x 24 inches | 2022
“Golden Slumber”
Oil on Canvas | 24 x 18 inches | 2022
“The Loyal’s Fool: Homage to Luna’s La Bulaqueña”
Oil on Canvas | 24 x 18 inches | 2022
“A Tale of Passion”
Oil on Canvas | 24 x 24 inches | 2022
“Debate, The Language of Love”
Oil on Canvas | 24 x 24 inches | 2022
“Mercado Negra: La Cristina, After Hidalgo”
Oil on Canvas | 36 x 24 inches each (36 x 48 Diptych) | 2022
“Mercado Negra: La Cristina, After Hidalgo”
Oil on Canvas | 36 x 24 inches each (36 x 48 Diptych) | 2022
“Diplomacy Immaculacy”
Oil on Canvas | 48 x 36 inches | 2022
“Femme Fatale”
Acrylic on Canvas | 36 x 36 inches | 2022
“Bleed & Bloom 7”
Mixed media on canvas | 60 x 48 inches | 2022
“Bleed & Bloom 8”
Mixed media on canvas | 60 x 48 inches | 2022
“Bleed & Bloom 4”
Mixed media on canvas | 60 x 48 inches | 2022
“Vestige I -III”
Mixed media on Canvas | 17 x 17 inches | 2022
“Relic 1 – 6”
Mixed media on Canvas | 26 x 26 inches | 2022