Clara Fialho
the intolerable white sun
May 8th, 2008 through June 21st, 2008
Opening reception:
Thursday, May 8th from
6-9pm
Merge Gallery
205 West 20th Street
Hours: Tuesday through Saturday 11-6pm
Merge gallery is pleased to announce The Intolerable White Sun, an exhibition of new work by artist Clara Fialho. Fiahlo is a conceptually rooted artist who uses ideas drawn from the unconscious to reveal collectively understood concepts. Fialho explores these abstract concepts in her new work through a myriad of colorful oil paintings that will be on display beginning May 8th, 2008.
Fialho’s work is partially a manifestation of her fixation with Carl Jung’s seminal theory of the collective unconscious, as well as an expression of dream elements and the synchronicity of ideas which are common to everyone. Fialho’s work embodies a reservoir of experience and a definite maturity that is distinct and nearly somber. However on the contrary the work can easily be seen as equally quirky, ambivalent and glowing sweet.
Fialho’s prescient use of interacting orbs and shapes of all size and color possess a seemingly random and inadvertent nature and a colorful, muted chaos. But incredibly there is simultaneously a cohesive composition comprised of several layers, extreme depth and an ostensibly calculated order.
For further information or to arrange an interview with the artist, please contact Cass Zielinski at info@mergegallery.com or telephone 212.929.7505.
