NEW SEASONS FANTASY

MARCH 9-MAY 4, 2024
OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, MARCH 9TH FROM 6-9 PM

Marmo Gallery is pleased to present New Seasons Fantasy, a group exhibition featuring the work of Greg Bartol & Carol Orr, Carrie Brennan, Maria Bressler, Arrington Dionyso, Lauren Kim, Rainen Knecht, Mariella Luz, Lisa Mellinger, Lehman Noviello, Anya Roberts-Toney, Lizzy Sheehan, Connie Simpson, China Faith Star, & Suzy Louise Valentine.

New Seasons Fantasy explores how artwork that engages in realms of the fantastical can offer us new ways of seeing. It allows us to consider the powers of imagination in the face of worldly, structural limitations, offering us new perspectives and allowing us to question what is “real” and what isn’t.

The artists in this show delight in interpreting the world and in shattering interpretation. They teach us to become both the perceiver and the imperceptible, leading us to climb through the middle of a question, scaling heights, and stretching to reach the gates of the cosmos.

In these pieces, we find ourselves between the real and the unreal, in an intermezzo. We unlock another way of traveling through the world, moving through the middle, coming and going, rather than starting and finishing (Deleuze).

There are times when we can’t perceive meaning and are simply moved; the significance of the work of art lying in its pure, untranslatable, and sensuous immediacy. We are shown that this sensory experience is crucial to discovering new perspectives.

New Seasons Fantasy shows us that we must learn to see more, to hear more, to feel more.

TEXT BY ISA RADOJCIC
NEW SEASONS FANTASY POEM BY TAYLOR HURLEY
FLYER BY MARIA BRESSLER

Anya Roberts-Toney, Born with Your Name in Her Mouth, 19" x 17", oil on linen, 2022