Image: Installation view featuring the Desert Palette series
Solace/Sublime looks at the phenomenon of the natural world as a source of inspiration
Exhibition opens with public reception July 8th, 2023 at AGCC from 3-5pm
San Pedro, CA – Angels Gate Cultural Center (AGCC) is pleased to present a new exhibition, Solace/Sublime on view July 8th – September 9th, 2023. Curated by Molly Enholm Velazco, this group exhibition explores the elemental forces of nature to find moments of hope and solace, perhaps even achieve the sublime.
Solace/Sublime opens with a free public reception at Angels Gate Cultural Center located at 3601 S. Gaffey Steet, San Pedro, on Saturday, July 8th, from 3 – 5pm.
Solace/Sublime is a group exhibition featuring the work of artists who look to the phenomenon of the natural world as a primary source of inspiration. Historically, portrayals of the natural world were often cast as attempts to conjure the aesthetics of the sublime. Accordingly, paintings of land, sea and sky would emphasize the grandeur of nature and its epic scale and power to conjure emotions of awe, and even terror, within the viewer. In this exhibition, the works of contemporary Southern Californian artists Samantha Fields, Megan Frances, Yvette Gellis, Virginia Katz, R. Nelson Parrish and Molly Enholm Velazco, seek to explore a contrasting notion through the very elements often associated with the sublime experience. To conjure a view of an endless horizon, towering mountains, or the unfettered power of raw nature to offer moments of hope and solace, as opposed to existential dread. Through exploring these elemental forces of nature, these artists embrace the dichotomies of the natural world: the minute and overwhelming, the eternal and the ephemeral, the solace and the sublime.
Gallery Conversations, AGCC’s onsite artist talk series, will feature the curator and several artists of Solace/Sublime in a live conversation and Q&A in the gallery on Saturday, August 19th, at 3pm.