FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MIAMI, FL -- (March 2012) -- Diana Lowenstein Gallery is pleased to present two new solo exhibitions
by artists Angela Glajcar and Michael Loveland. They will be on view from April 14th through June 2nd,
2012. The artists will be present at an opening reception on Saturday, April 14th, from 6 to 10pm
during the Wynwood Art District Second Saturday Gallery Walk.
ANGELA GLAJCAR | Paper and Light
Glajcar’s paper objects and installations explore the way space is experienced. Finely tuned states of
equilibrium of lightness and heaviness, materialness and immaterialness, are intended to evoke in the
viewer an emotional reaction to the inanimate objects. Glajcar’s professor, Tim Scott, attested his
master student an extraordinary ‘sculptural intelligence’. This ability of the artist, namely, to find
intelligent and thus cogent and strategic solutions, took her from wood and steel to paper, her current
material of choice, meeting her particular requirements. Initially, paper appears light and fragile.
Depending on its quality and layering, however, it can also be heavy and resilient. Since paper is made of
natural substances and is therefore perishable like any other natural tissue, it takes up a position
halfway between natural and artificial. In contrast to wood or metal it absorbs colour and is permeable
without being of any colour itself. Paper can be processed without any tools – although this requires
quite a bit of effort – and can easily be agitated, so that the works that already give the impression of
floating begin to sway, casting a moving shadow.
To draw the viewer’s attention to the interstice, this void, it is never possible to look straight through
the works, because the holes are positioned such that the hollow stretches into the unknown. Because
of our experience we think we recognize this interior to be a cave or a tunnel. However, the spaces
created by this artist have no direct relation to the figurative world, and we are faced neither by a cave
nor an image of a cave. All we have is Plato‘s Allegory of the Cave. We see what we are able to see or
what we want to see. – Sasa Hanten
Angela Glajcar was born in Mainz, Germany in 1970. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in
Hamburg, where she later taught for many years. She also served as Visiting Chair (Sculpture) at the
University of Giessen. Her artwork has been exhibited throughout Europe, as well as in the United
States, and has earned numerous awards.
MICHAEL LOVELAND | Word of Mouth
Inspired by antiwar posters, activist posters, Occupy Wall Street protest signs, and hand-scrawled
homes-for-sale signs wired to street corner poles, Michael Loveland’s new body of work examines
the power of the individual’s voice in society.
Working from mass-produced, found graphics such as pin-up girls and rock posters, Loveland
obliterates all but the mouth, the vehicle of the voice, through processes of masking and erasure.
The resulting expanses of open space surrounding the figures initiate a dialogue between them –
singing turns to screaming, a simple smile becomes overtly erotic.
Evoking the figure, these works inform the more minimal sculptures in the exhibition, which find
roots in issues regarding false securities, foreclosure and abandonment. Like his early works that
primarily consisted of groupings of color, like textures and combinations with unlike materials, the
new sculptures focus on unaltered everyday objects, questioning viability and value through
displacement. For example, the North West Utopia series derived from photographs of an
abandoned home across the street from the artist’s studio, from which he collected objects for
several sculptures, or Berlin Moments, a series of small sculptures that grew from objects and posters
collected during walks around that city.
Loveland is a Miami-based artist who graduated from the New World School of the Arts. He
subsequently earned his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and also studied in New York
before returning to Miami. He participates in exhibitions and art fairs in the United States, as well as
abroad. His artwork is included in several private and museum collections.
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