It is my utmost pleasure to share the upcoming exhibit, "Kim Abeles: Social Furniture (1976-2023)," at the Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery. Ms. Abeles is an artist of phenomenal vision, addressing such issues as social justice, the environment, and education in her art. Her contributions during the last five decades have been enormous, and this exhibit offers a sampling of her significant accomplishments.
The exhibition features her sculptures, large-scale installations, and mixed media artworks created between 1976-2023. The exhibition comprises six unique but interwoven sections with over sixty artworks: Human Nature, Documents, Body of Voices, Atmosphere, frugalworld, and Space + Time. These works are engaged with the environment, historical narratives, feminism, geography, and social sciences. Her images are reflections of life in the 20th and 21st centuries, and they are made with smog, landscapes discovered through geographic systems, collected objects, and portraiture across cultural zones. Abeles' work may be divided into two distinct spheres. One is on nature, and she treats it as a mystical experience beyond words but within the sphere of artistic valuation. The other is the world of humans, which embodies the random but purposeful and subjective constructs that are formed by individual ontologies in their social spaces.
Carefully curated and installed by Mika Cho and Kim Abeles with the support of the hard-working gallery student staff, this exhibition genuinely shares Kim's complex and compelling art world.
Mika M. Cho, Curator and Director, Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery
Gallery Hours
Monday - Friday 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Artist Walkthrough - Oct. 28, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
