The Hogar Collection
362 Grand Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211
tel.718.388.5022     info@hogarcollection.com      www.hogarcollection.com

Gallery Hours: Thursdays - Mondays 12:30 - 7:00 pm    and by appointment

FOR RELEASE:

Lauriston Avery

Invisible Moon

September 10 – October 25, 2010

Opening Reception: Friday, September 10
6:30-9:30pm

The Hogar Collection is most pleased to announce Invisible Moon by Lauriston Avery. In his second solo exhibition at the gallery, Avery presents 4 large new mixed media paintings on canvas and a group of intimate works on paper that combine paint, paper pulp, ground glass, broken mirror, sewing thread and tinsel into poetically microcosmic abstractions of mysterious and expressionistic landscapes. The materiality of Avery’s seductive surfaces enchants and magnetizes the viewer allowing them to explore and contemplate the notion of an undetermined reality. Shattered mirrors within the paintings literally reflect a fragmented view of our perceived exterior world, revealing our fractal ubiquitous consciousness. Somewhere between a waking dream state and cognizant awareness, the works contain an entryway into the realms of a spiritual and psychological sensationism that romanticize direct base experiences of the ultimate unknown. Avery incorporates the underlying sublime tenets of color field and abstract movements while directing an eye to mysticism and the occult as a way to draw unconditional connections between image making and object event.

Lauriston Avery was born in 1968 in Connecticut and currently lives and works in New York. His works have been exhibited at venues such as 31 Grand, NY, Participant Gallery, NY, Next Art Fair, Chicago, Phillips de Pury, NY, HERE Art Space, NY and The Hogar Collection among others. Lauriston received a BFA from The Maryland Institute College of Art and the San Francisco Art Institute.

*For more information or images, please contact Todd Rosenbaum (director) at 718.388.5022.

Gallery Hours: Friday – Sunday: 12:30 - 7 pm. and by appointment

Above Image: Way out voices, mixed media on canvas, 90 x 70 inches, 2010.

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Subway:
L or G Train to Lorimer St, exit on Metropolitan, walk under BQE towards Manhattan, left on Marcy Ave, 2 blocks turn right on Grand at the corner of Marcy.

L Train to Bedford Ave, walk south on Bedford Ave to Grand St. Turn left on Grand St, walk 4 blocks, between Havemeyer and Marcy.

JMZ to Marcy Ave, walk 5 blocks north on Marcy, turn left on Grand St.

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Drive over the Williamsburg Bridge, 2nd immediate exit at South 5th St, left at light on Havemeyer, right on Grand Street, 4 blocks on right.