Euclid Gallery Exhibit – It Stands to Reason, Joy Still Exists
Ari Salka
It Stands to Reason, Joy Still Exists, a solo exhibition of paintings by Ari Salka.
Salka provides impassioned investigations of repetition and fragmentation throughout the presentation with the vehicles of abstraction, figuration, and poetry. Despite the work’s frenetic appearance, Salka’s previous iconography of bodies can be found embedded in these works in an autobiographical approach to marking.
This grouping of works presents both large-scale and small pieces completed from 2020-2023. Employing reference to Salka’s past figurative and abstract bodies of work; as well as moving toward the artist’s most recent explorations to realize the meeting of both languages.
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Salka's paintings resist; not only by showing us non-binary bodies, but hands prepared to reach out and lead us beyond the present political limitations, into a realm where these bodies are not withheld from view, not merely visible, but beheld and, most importantly, in their dynamic, breathing, singing, multitudinous forms-held.