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Ieva Mediodia: Synaptic Katharsis at The Nicole Fiacco Gallery

The Nicole Fiacco Gallery is pleased to announce Synaptic Katharsis, a solo show of recent paintings by the artist Ieva Mediodia (Lithuanian b. 1968), marking the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery.

Ieva Mediodia’s exuberant paintings speak to the presence of the mind’s eye – the way in which neurological phenomena interplay with the consciousness of memory and time to form the visual. The artist uses oil, acrylic and airbrush paint in vibrant colors. According to the artist, “…My paintings emerge out of random spills of paint. I find this approach maintains a looseness and fluidity in my work, enacting the motion without a rigid structural logic as manifestation of feminine gesture.”

While Mediodia’s work does not represent a particular subject matter or narrative, the imagery links together various art-histories, concepts and experiences. Disparate iconographic imagery inhabits Mediodia’s pictures, including references to comic books, cartoons and other images from popular culture. These images are sometimes buried into layers of ribbon-like abstract lines and fluid marks of paint that hover, recede and swell from the picture plane. Mediodia connects visual fragments into complex compositional structures on canvas. Time and space fuse, giving the illusion of movement; and the play of transparency alludes to depth. To view one of Mediodia’s paintings is to simultaneously sense history and futurism, representation and abstraction, deliberation and spontaneity, analytics and stream of consciousness.

While Mediodia’s work does not represent a particular subject matter or narrative, the imagery links together various art-histories, concepts and experiences. Disparate iconographic imagery inhabits Mediodia’s pictures, including references to comic books, cartoons and other images from popular culture. These images are sometimes buried into layers of ribbon-like abstract lines and fluid marks of paint that hover, recede and swell from the picture plane. Mediodia connects visual fragments into complex compositional structures on canvas. Time and space fuse, giving the illusion of movement; and the play of transparency alludes to depth.

Ieva Mediodia lives and works in New York. She received her M.F.A. in Painting from Hunter College. Mediodia’s work has been exhibited internationally including solo exhibitions at Albert Benamou Gallerym, Paris, France; Bencivart Gallery, Pesaro, (Italy). Mediodia’s first New York solo exhibition took please at the Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, New York. Mediodia’s work has been noted in the New York Times, L.A. Weekly and Art Forum Magazine. Mediodia is represented by Annina Nosei in Europe.

This event is free and open to the public.

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