The Empire of Sighs

Numark Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of its fall season with The Empire of Sighs, a group exhibition curated by Andrea Pollan. Responding to the pervasive anxiety that permeates our contemporary times, The Empire of Sighs brings together nine artists: Laura Carton, Sarah Hobbs, Kyung Jeon, Michael Kalmbach, Takehito Koganezawa, Michele Kong, Walter Martin & Paloma Munoz, Roxy Paine and Julianne Swartz. Their aesthetically diverse works, in collective dialog, create a cumulative, undeniable emotional timbre of fragility and instability. Here worlds have gone awry or hover on the edge of incipient imbalance and conceivable chaos. These artists conjure a mood of delicate neurosis, awash with fantasy, obsessiveness, hallucinatory allusions, erotic illicitness, childhood fears, solitude, ethereality, and hints at forces unseen.

The exhibition features sculptures by internationally acclaimed artists Walter Martin & Paloma Munoz, Roxy Paine and Julianne Swartz; drawings by Kyung Jeon and Takehito Koganezawa; photographs by Laura Carton, Sarah Hobbs and Martin & Munoz; paintings by Michael Kalmbach and an installation by emerging area artist Michele Kong.

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The Empire of Sighs
Kurator: Andrea Pollan

Laura Carton, Sarah Hobbs, Kyung Jeon, Michael Kalmbach, Takehito Koganezawa, Michele Kong, Walter Martin & Paloma Munoz, Roxy Paine, Julianne Swartz