2024 PROGRAM BEGINS JUNE 1
2024 PROGRAM BEGINS JUNE 1
2023
HANDS ON
An Exhibition of
Studio Jewelry & Painting
AT THE SALON SHOW
November 10 - 13
PARK AVE ARMORY
643 Park Ave, New York, NY
FRI, SAT, SUN 11-7 MON 11-5
RSVP | elevatedmatter@gmail.com
ELEVATED MATTER GALLERY is pleased to present the works of 5 American jewelry artists in conversation with ink paintings by Master Chinese painters in an exhibition titled HANDS ON.
HANDS ON explores the role of the human hand, heart and spirit as well as the discipline of mastery in creation.
The works will be exhibited at the Park Avenue Armory in New York as part of the SALON art and design show from Nov 10-13.
For tickets courtesy of the gallery
RSVP: elevatedmatter@gmail.com
JEWELRY BY
ANDY LIF
ANTHONY LENT
CHRIS DAVIES
ELIZABETH GARVIN
STELLA FLAME
PAINTINGS BY
PAN GONKAI
TAI XIANGZHOU
HANDS ON presented at SALON, NY
November 10 - 13, 2023
PARK AVE ARMORY
643 Park Ave, New York, NY
FRI, SAT, SUN 11-7 MON 11-5
2022
Joseph La Piana/ PHOTONASTIC
August 26 - September 16
ELEVATED MATTER GALLERY
422 1/2 Warren Street, Hudson NY
DAILY 11-5 or by appointment
ELEVATED MATTER GALLERY is pleased to open an exhibition of paintings, collage and wood sculpture by Joseph La Piana as part of the 2022 Hudson Eye Festival. The solo show, titled PHOTONASTIC, will run from Aug 26 through Sept 16.
Reception for the artist:
Tuesday Aug 30, 2022 at 7:30 pm
RSVP: elevatedmatter@gmail.com
“These works consist of complex structures — numerous labyrinths creating whimsical, organic fluid abstractions.”
“My creative process is centered around the concept of evolution and the capacity to transform.”
CUMULATIVE RELIEF PAINTING II | 2018 | Acrylic on Canvas, on Canvas | 52 x 52 in
Over the course of two decades Joseph La Piana has established a multi-disciplinary practice as a visual artist, drawing upon a diverse range of materials and techniques. The work investigates forces, seen and unseen, that act upon our embodied experience of the world. Incorporating methodologies and theories from science, biology and physics, mathematics, and phenomenology — La Piana’s work is both process-oriented and singularly deconstructive in aim.
PHOTONASTIC COLLAGE II | 2017 | Mylar, craft and construction paper | 26 1/2 x 26 1/2 in framed
PHOTONASTIC COLLAGE 05 | 2017 | Mylar, craft and construction paper | 18 x 24 in
La Piana’s works have been included in numerous exhibitions and site-specific installations internationally, including solo-exhibitions at the Robert Miller Gallery (New York) and The Warhol Museum (Pittsburg). His site-specific installations have been exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2011 as part of the Warhol Museum’s “The Venice Text Project and in 2019 his “Tension Sculpture Installation” were featured along Park Avenue in collaboration with the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation and The Fund for Park Avenue.
2021
Lydia Rubio/ CONSTELLATIONS
August 7- September 15
ELEVATED MATTER GALLERY is pleased to have exhibited oil paintings by Lydia Rubio in Hudson, NY as part of the 2021 Hudson Eye Festival. The solo show titled CONSTELLATIONS featured 13 abstract paintings by Cuban-American artist Lydia Rubio that had not been exhibited before. The exhibition ran from Aug 28 - Sept 15. 2021. We are happy to arrange a viewing of any current available works.
Twelve Moons | 2018 | Natural pigments and mixed media on canvas | 71 x 118 x 2 in
Since her 2015 trip to Patagonia, the artist has been fueled by a need to simplify and distill. She has replaced the terrestrial narrative present in her previous paintings with an idiosyncratic and transcendental alphabet of gesture and form. In these compositions, the artist approaches the construction of her paintings as a “visual musician”. Rubio’s work achieves a sort of cosmic hum that recalls the idea of the Musica Universalis. The ancients argued that the Music of the Spheres, while inaudible to anatomical ears, can be heard by the soul.
Blue Note | 2019 | Natural pigments and resin | 20 x 20 x 2
Rubio’s paintings are both contemplative and constructive in nature. They contain the “spiritual fervor” of which Kandinsky so intensely wrote: "Composition is an expression of a slowly formed inner feeling, which comes to utterance only after long maturing.” The painting technique combines transparent atmospheric spaces with sharply defined geometric forms. Her unique language of form and color awakens the senses, conferring an uplifting and spiritual elegance upon the viewer.
“CONSTELLATIONS is an exploration of opposites combined: concreteness and gesture, order and chaos, the Apollonian and the Dionysian. At its heart, it is a series about magnificence and mystery.”
-Lydia Rubio
Notes on the Sea/2 | 2020 | Oil on Panel | 12 x 12x 1
Lydia Rubio is a Cuban-born American artist based in Hudson, NY. She comes from three generations of women painters, and her multidisciplinary works include paintings, sculptures, drawings, artist books, and public art. Hers is a search for the poetic with painting as her core activity. She is interested in process, word-image connections, fragmentation, and change. Her paintings balance Apollonian clarity and Dionysian excess while looking for order in technique and concept.
Constellation #8 | 2018 | Mixed media on panel | 30 x 30 x 1.5 in
Rubio holds an M. Arch. from Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she studied with Rudolf Arnheim. She taught at Harvard and Parsons School of Design before starting her full-time art practice in 1980. Rubio has exhibited in galleries in New York, Miami, Montreal, and Bogota. She has held solo museum exhibitions at The Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale (1995) and the Bronx Museum of the Arts (1985); group exhibitions at the Museum of the Americas (2019), Frost Art Museum (2011), and the Museum of Latin American Art (2006); and traveling exhibitions at the Snite Museum of Art and the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art.
about /
ELEVATED MATTER
ELEVATED MATTER is a salon-style private gallery in a historic Warren street townhouse in Hudson, NY. The gallery opened in June 2021 and shows fine art, fine studio jewelry, and design. The focus is on contemporary American artists and designers who engage deeply with historical processes and craft.
Careful curatorial attention is paid to the non-traditional and unexpected, particularly in the realm of the senses. This emphasis on sensory elevation infuses the space with an intimate elegance. The founder, Chris Davies, is an artist-jeweler hailing from a family of artists, architects, and designers going back generations.