NEXT EXHIBITION OPENING SEPTEMBER 17
MISE EN PLACE
September 17 - DECEMBER 10
Friends Artspace is pleased to present its inaugural exhibition, Through a Glass Darkly: Mirrors and Vanity, featuring the familiar objects of our foyers and bedrooms reimagined. Friends extends an invitation to see ourselves more clearly through playful interpretations of reflection and vanity. Mirrors provide the perfect nexus to integrate the viewer with the artist, to obscure and distort reality. Or, to expand it.
Through a Glass Darkly touches on the rich tradition of Murano glass and celebrates contemporary design through the revelatory work of Adiskidan Ambaye & Jomo Tariku, Anna Aagaard Jensen, Misha Kahn, Sabine Marcelis & Brit van Nerven, Lucia Massari, Léa Mestres, Ongaro & Fuga, Eun-Ha Paek, Isabel Rower, Lukas Saint-Joigny, and Laura Soto.
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Adiskidan Ambaye & Jomo Tariku
Mido, 2021
Baltic birch, walnut, copper, mirror
72.5 x 23.5 x 3 inches -
Anna Aagaard Jensen
Flâneuse, 2021
Steel, fiberglass, acrylic one, mirror, makeup
20 x 17.5 x 11.5 inches -
Anna Aagaard Jensen
Flower Flower on the Wall, 2021
Acrylic one, fiberglass, polyurethane foam, mirror, makeup
21.75 diameter x 3 inches
Edition of 25 -
Misha Kahn
Saturday Morning Series: Yellow Wall Mirror, 2015
Resin, automotive paint, mirror
78.25 x 52 x 7 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Friedman Benda, New York -
Misha Kahn
Square Sun Theory, 2021
Resin, automotive paint, mirror
42.5 x 34 x 11.5 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Friedman Benda, New York -
Misha Kahn
A Little Snack Would Do, 2021
Resin, chrome, mirror
29 x 24.5 x 9 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Friedman Benda, New York -
Sabine Marcelis & Brit van Nerven
Seeing Glass: Off Round Hue Collection, 2021
Glass, color: sunrise
22 x 24 inches -
Lucia Massari
Flora, 2021
Fret worked Murano glass mirror with colored glass elements
35 x 29 inches
Designed by Lucia Massari, Produced by Barbini Specchi Veneziani
Edition of 12 -
Léa Mestres
Bob, 2021
Personal secret mixture of foam, fibers, paint,
varnish, mirror
26.5 diameter x 6 inches -
Léa Mestres
Robert, 2021
Personal secret mixture of foam, fibers, paint,
varnish, mirror
26.5 diameter x 6 inches -
Ongaro & Fuga
Fleur, 2021
Hot-colored fusion Murano glass, aged with mercury antiquing technique
42 x 27.5 inches -
Eun-Ha Paek
Looking Glass Blue, 2021
Glazed ceramic with luster, epoxy, acrylic, resin
11.5 x 11.25 x 2.25 inches -
Eun-Ha Paek
Looking Glass Long, 2021
Glazed ceramic with luster, epoxy, acrylic, resin
10.5 x 4.25 x 1.25 inches -
Eun-Ha Paek
Looking Glass Oval, 2021
Glazed ceramic with luster, epoxy, acrylic, resin
7.5 x 5 x 2 inches -
Eun-Ha Paek
Looking Glass Shadow, 2021
Wood, plastic, acrylic, resin, pigment
6.75 x 5.5 x 1.5 inches -
Eun-Ha Paek
Looking Glass Handheld, 2021
Glazed ceramic, wood composite, epoxy, mirror
14.75 x 8.25 inches -
Isabel Rower
In the Slow Pouring Off of Rainbows Frame, 2021
Porcelain, glass, wood
9.5 x 8 x 2 inches -
Isabel Rower
I, Too, Gather their Spiritual Honey Frame, 2021
Porcelain, glass, wood
10 x 8.75 x 1.75 inches -
Lukas Saint-Joigny
Bigoût Mirror, 2021
Resin, pigment, MDF, mirror
9.75 x 13 x 4 inches -
Laura Soto
chair I, 2021
Acrylic, oil, resin, glue, mica pigments, wax, found armature
32 x 24 x 24 inches -
Laura Soto
meanwhile, 2020
Acrylic, oil, resin, glue, mica pigments, wax, ephemera, polymer, glass
36.5 x 35.5 inches -
Laura Soto
gumdrop, 2020
Acrylic, resin, glue, mica pigments, plaster, ephemera, concrete, canvas, paper
9.5 x 5 x 5 inches -
Laura Soto
mollusk, 2020
Acrylic, resin, glue, mica pigments, plaster,
ephemera, concrete
8 x 5 x 5 inches -
Laura Soto
tongue, 2020
Acrylic, resin, glue, mica pigments, ephemera,
polymer, asphalt
6 x 4 .5 x 4 inches -
Laura Soto
rose, 2021
Acrylic, oil, resin, glue, mica pigments, wax, ephemera, polymer, glass
8 x 6.5 x 6.5 inches -
Laura Soto
combustion, 2020
Acrylic, oil, resin, glue, mica pigments, wax, ephemera, polymer, glass
6 x 5.5 x 4.5 inches -
Laura Soto
plinth, 2021
Acrylic, oil, resin, glue, mica pigments, ephemera, polymer, fabric
5 x 4 x 4 inches