Lowell Ryan Projects celebrated Icons, an exhibition featuring the latest works of French-Canadian artist Marc Séguin. with an opening art party on March 9, 2024. The exhibition runs through April 13, 2024.
Lowell Ryan Projects Icons
Icons explores the uncertainty of our time through a grouping of symbolic archetypes. They include paintings of vultures, angels, wolves, in addition to humans. The works on view meditate on the duality of human nature as well as our capacity to resist instinct. This is Marc Séguin’s first solo show in Los Angeles and with Lowell Ryan Projects.
Central to the exhibition is a large-scale painting titled Artist + Vulture. The artist renders a vulture in black charcoal, spreading its wings fully as if taking off in flight. He then paints the outline of a falling woman on top of the vulture. This is done using thickly impastoed red oil paint, therefore creating the impression that she is dripping from the sky.
The painting is ambiguous in its intent. Is the bird rescuing the woman or is the bird flying past her? How is the bird understood in the context of our times or culture?
Accompanying Artist + Vulture are a series of smaller iconic paintings, classical depictions of angels, and renderings of vultures in various states of flight and stillness. Gestural markings in solid hues of oil paint conceal the faces of the angels or form symbolic depictions of shapes, stick figures, or abstract marks applied on top of the winged figures. Two howling wolves provide further symbolism in the exhibition.
Marc Séguin, Artist + Vulture, 2023, Charcoal and oil on canvas, 78h x 108w in, 198.12h x 274.32w cm, MS20
Lowell Ryan Projects
Founded in 2019, the gallery fosters a contemporary art program that highlights idea-driven, but also highly material art practices. The gallery is located in a split-level, art deco building with a backyard garden in Mid City, Los Angeles.
On view: March 9, 2024 – April 13, 2024
What: Icons, Marc Séguin
Where: Lowell Ryan Projects, 4619 W Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90016
When: Running through April 13, 2024
Website: https://www.lowellryanprojects.com/
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