Sharon Horvath at Pierogi: Where Owls Stare at Painting's Busted Eyeballs

From the signage onward, Horvath's exhibition yields the sense of time one experiences in the studio as a layered flow of past, present, geological and mythical realities. Gallery Link

View from outside the gallery. This front area alone is enough for an exhibition!

Throughout the exhibition small nooks are constructed, conflating past and present works like a dimensional diary.

A study of pottery drawing provides a thesis for the entire exhibition, summoning archaic sources as ongoing inspiration.

The stacks: what a brilliant idea, and way to show paintings casually! 

Not only are there jewels of paintings...inviting handling, though I refrained...

But also reading material of interest, adding dimension to the work on view.

Looking back toward the door.

The paintings have a beautiful sense of layering, matte surfaces and raised elements, such as decorative plastic doilies from mysterious lands. 

Horvath's color is wondrous to behold--few handle green so beautifully.

Works on paper from India, where the artist has traveled extensively, also paper mounted on canvas, and canvas itself. 

The surfaces are both incised and layered.

In a large display case, repurposed from the stunning Dawn Clements exhibition, Horvath's sense of multivalent time comes clear. How my heart melted on seeing this beautiful drawing, having made so many of my own. It is all the more poignant for the elements around it that speak to the life lived since.

More in the display case: an echo of the stacks, making the multiple realities we access daily conscious. 

The interactivity of screen and keyboard become dimensional as we walk and look. A beautiful exhibition.