"Pair in Process" - Meet the Maker Reception
Join InLiquid for a "Meet the Maker" reception on Wednesday, May 15, from 6 - 8 pm at the Hyatt Centric Center City Philadelphia.
Join InLiquid for a "Meet the Maker" reception on Wednesday, May 15, from 6 - 8 pm. To RSVP, email lex@punchmedia.biz to say you’ll be attending!
InLiquid is pleased to present the work of Jorge Caliguri and Chris Curchin at Hyatt Centric in celebration of Pride Month. Both artists work in abstraction. Caliguri’s methodical architectural approach is encaustic and fresco, versus Curchin’s methodology, which is more organic, random texture-making in oil paint. As a married couple, it’s interesting to see that despite how the work's materiality differs, a playful dialogue emerges between the two artists exploring shape, space, and color.
In 2020, out of necessity at the onset of the pandemic they unexpectedly began to share studio space. They have never shown their work side by side. Art can be a product but it is also by-product: of experience and process. Pair in Process presents reflections in proximity.
Chris Curchin began experimenting with abstraction in 1995 and developed the sgraffito technique, the scratch work, out of a need to delete the sense of representation. The evolution of this process uses randomness as a foundational element. Mark-making in wet ground before painting yields a surface that requires response and improvisation; control and happenstance. In the recycled box forms presented here the initial recycling and erratic randomness of shape and tearing resulted in irregular surfaces for experimentation. Because they were never intended as finished products to be seen they exist as relics of experience; like manuscripts telling the story of the process, the history of the elements and their recycling/creation.
Jorge Caligiuri’s body of work here is developed in fresco medium. In taking a modern approach to the traditional secco process, Caligiuri uses experimentation and serendipity to fuse layers and textures. Shapes and patterns accumulate and recede in the process. The outcome is never certain. Using fundamental elements; line, shape, curve, angle, circle and triangle in an improvised geometry he finds liberation in process and the surface’s constant change; reflecting his interest in transience and the fragility of matter over time.
The work on display here experiments with negative space, shaped surfaces, and angles removed.
