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Korean-born, Nevada-based artist Amy Sol offers a new body of works at Thinkspace Gallery this month, under the title "Bird of Flux." The painter's whimsical, dreamlike works look at "themes of transition, adventure, and adaptation." The show features both oil paintings and sculptures, which carry the soft textures and fantastical elements of the panel works to three dimensions.
Artist Amy Sol has always had a special affinity for forests and nature. Though she now lives and works in the dry desert region of Las Vegas, she spent her childhood years in Korea, where the landscape is dotted with lush evergreen forests. In fact, it could be said that forests taught her how to paint- when Amy Sol was little, she would pause VHS tapes of Disney classics and copy the Tyrus Wong oil backgrounds in Bambi and Eyvind Earle's stylized landscapes in Sleeping Beauty.
Martin Wittfooth An esoteric concept that fascinated the first Surrealists, an "égrégore" is a sort of mob mentality. Scholar Pierre Mabille defined it as "a group of humans endowed with a personality different from that of the individuals forming it." This concept of collective consciousness was the springboard for Yves Laroche Gallery's eponymous exhibition, the gallery's largest group show to date. With dozens of artists, many of whom are associated with the Pop Surrealist movement, the show builds its momentum from the multitudes of distinct yet complementary aesthetics joined together. Among the line-up are names that will be well-known to our readers: Josh Agle (Shag), Martin Wittfooth, Amy Sol, Joe Sorren, Liz McGrath, Annie Owens (Hi-Fructose co-editor-in-chief), AJ Fosik, Miss Van and many others. Take a look at our sneak peek below before "Égrégore" opens on October 30 at Yves Laroche Gallery in Montreal.