VBMA’s Spring Exhibits Celebrate Light and Nature
Railroad Nostalgia, 2012, Artist Proof #2, plywood, LED lights, railroad tracks & ties, hardware, mirrors, 100 x 144 x 41.5 inches, Collection of the artist, Courtesy of C. Grimaldis Gallery
VBMA - The Vero Beach Museum of Art has two intriguing new exhibits this spring. Through April 25, 2021 in the Stark Gallery and Rotunda, the fascinating exhibition New Light by Korean-born Baltimore artist Chul Hyun Ahn features a dozen sculptural works and is an investigation of infinite space. Ahn uses light, color, and illusion to immerse his viewers in deep landscapes that bridge the gap between the conscious and subconscious. Chul Hyun Ahn constructs illusionistic environments, providing a space for contemplation. His sculptures urge the viewer to consider man’s boundless ability for physical and spiritual travel while exploiting notions of infinity and the poetics of emptiness. Ahn has translated geometric painting and the Zen practice of meditation into an art of light, space, and technology, enticing the viewer to look deeply into his frame of environments. His works create an optical and bodily illusion of infinity through apparent limitless space. The notion
of the void distinguishes his work amid the vast panoply of ways that artists have used light as a medium since the experiments of the 1920s, and particularly since the 1960s. Chul Hyun Ahn is an artist of international acclaim, with works in numerous public and private collections including the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, the Hearst Foundation, Movado Group, the Jordan D. Schnitzer Family Foundation, Delaware Art Museum, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art and the Palm Springs Art Museum. Ahn participated in Art Basel Hong Kong 2019 in collaboration with La Prairie, Switzerland. He lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland and has been represented by C. Grimaldis Gallery since 2002. Through May 2, 2021 visitors will also be awed by Poetry of Nature, Hudson River School Landscapes. This stunning array of over 40 paintings from the New-York Historical Society's collection by renowned Hudson River School artists, including Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, Albert
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