The Compound gallery in Yucca Valley presents a six-artist group show entitled “Recurrence” tonight, with opening reception from 6-10PM.
“Recurrence” features works revealing the enduring resonance of familiar patterns. Forms composed of recurring elements — whether in the form of materials, motifs, or concepts — inspire curiosity about the artists and the worlds they inhabit. And in the artist’s devotion to their practice and the resulting work, we observe the combined power of chance and preparation. The dedication to making and finding patterns as humans can often border on the obsessive. But an artist’s practice of creating repeated abstractions or returning to similar themes and gestures day in and out, can also accumulate into personal narratives.
Compound Programming Director Caroline Partamian said:
“We as curators are curious how… once an artist gets entrenched in one theme, why do they remain and return to that theme time and time again? For example, in this show we have examples of artists going back, returning home to personal histories or themes as we see in Boramie and Sam Schryver’s work; returning to themes in your daily practice, which we see in Yehrim Lee, Tielin Ding, and Julie Weiman’s work. In the end, as we present these artists all in the same space, we observe that these artists practices all have this theme of recurrence that are organized or disorganized, from meditative to chaotic, observing, to that of mending, and so Recurrence highlights the ways these artists choose to return to their practices again.”
The six artists Tielin Ding, Julie Weiman, Yehrim Lee, Boramie Ann Sao, Samuel Schryver, and Sally French all have respective approaches to the theme, yet Gallery Director Lara Wilson also saw a synchronized recurrence happening within the collective work:
“At first, we were just drawn to various artists that had abstract yet graphic themes present in their work and the title ‘Recurrence’ didn’t appear until much later. Although pretty soon into the process of curating the show, we did identify this theme of repetition for Boramie, Sam Schryver, and Sally French and even Yehrim, we see these repeated ‘sail shapes.’ They’re obviously totally distinct artists in different regions but for some reason there’s this similar shape that appears through these various artist’s work.”
Opening reception for Recurrence is tonight at Compound Yucca Valley from 6:00 – 10:00PM and will be on view through March 16th. Compound is located at 55379 Twentynine Palms Highway in Yucca Valley.
