THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY: MIRRORS AND VANITY

September 18, 2021 - January 7, 2022

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.

  • 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