Realm
ON VIEW
March 8 - March 30, 2024
ARTISTS
Jung Yun, Marley White, Elías Hernández, Kevin Carneiro, BEAR
SUMMARY
Known Studio is excited to present Realm, a group exhibition featuring works by 5 LA-based artists. The show features furniture design, ceramics, sculptures and paintings which serve as literal and abstract realms that allude to the artists’ childhoods, ancestries, inner thoughts, sexuality, and fantasies.
While there are clear stylistic distinctions between each artist, the works in the exhibit find common ground in their ability to transport viewers to the worlds and themes that are most present in their makers’ minds. Hernández and Carneiro both explore heritage and childhood memories in their work, alchemizing early experiences into rich, textural dreamscapes and designed-objects for use today. Through her dollhouses, BEAR urges viewers to examine the rooms that make up our everyday lives through an omniscient perspective. Yun exhibits new reductive paintings that literally unveil additional layers to the viewer, and abstractly urge the viewer to engage in topics that have been on Yun’s mind (in this case, the consumption and consequence of cobalt as a resource). Similarly, White explores themes of purity, religion and the body through her sculptural pieces– a common motif that runs through her practice.
