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Opening: April 23, 2023 | Lisa Blas "Pause (Play), Horizon" | 76,4 * Brussels

76,4 is pleased to announce

PAUSE (PLAY), HORIZON

2020-2023

by 

LISA BLAS

from 23/04 - 28/05/2023

OPENING 

Sunday 23 April, 16:00-19:00 

Lisa Blas, Bruxelles, April 2023

2020___suspended time___2023

Rue de Bosnie appears on Google maps at an angle. Walking north from 76,4 in Brussels, the street intersects with Rue André Hennebicq at the roundabout. Here, one finds the New Hollywood café. Point your imaginary compass due west, and Hollywood, California, will eventually appear in the mind’s eye – where the sun, horizontality of the landscape and light’s reflectivity are in constant oscillation. 

PAUSE (PLAY), HORIZON is the quadrant of two horizons, geographical and biographical — and two periods of time, April 2020 and April 2023. As if folding the page of a book you were halfway through, and finding it again three years later, the narrative is re-remembered. Meanwhile, the interstices of daily life played out. 

At 76,4, I exhibit a painting spanning 2 x 4 meters. The viewer encounters a tilted curvilinear form with an oculus at the center. Similar to the aperture of a camera, the oculus is the space linking interior and exterior, the spectator and the object in view. In March 2020, the oculus shape emerged for me while painting at dawn — the view through my apartment windows, weather conditions, the western sky meets the Hudson River, forming a horizon line with the New Jersey shoreline. Horizontal divisions of space eventually gave way to curvilinear forms with a lacuna radiating at the center. These daily viewpoints accrue in time and space, and in memory — color appears and disappears through an infinity zone. I define them as “afterchromes”.

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76,4

24, rue de Bosnie

1060 Saint-Gilles, Brussels 

Permanently visible from the street.

Hosted by Michel François, Ekaterina Kaplunova, Juan Pablo Plazas and Richard Venlet.

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Opening March 24, 2018: Valediction / Ejecta Projects, Carlisle, Pennsylvania

I am pleased to be participating in the inaugural group exhibition "Valediction" at Ejecta Projects, curated by artist Anthony Cervino and art historian Shannon Egan, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The gallery was founded after a book project the couple produced entitled "Ejecta", addressing their collaboration as artists, professors, writers, parents, and participants in the academic workplace and community life of Carlisle and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

In a beautifully written letter last January, Shannon and Anthony asked to include my work in an exhibition that would coincide with the opening of the gallery. Their venture seemed quite timely and a necessary antidote to these times of polarization and widespread discontent. Communities are in great need of new venues that arise from the spirit of collaboration and dialogue, where artists and exhibitions can be introduced to the public in a welcoming space for visitors, neighbors, colleagues and friends.

Please join us in support of this celebratory occasion of "Valediction" at Ejecta Projects from March 24 - May 5, 2018.

See you in Carlisle!

Ejecta Projects
136 West High Street
Carlisle, PA 17013
443.904.3649

 

LISA BLAS, Horizons, v. 2, Acrylic and interference color on watercolor paper on Opalux vellum, 19.5 x 25.5 inches, 2018
(Note: There are two sheets of Opalux, A over B, presented as one version of display)
Framed: 22 x 28 x 1.75 inches