INNER STATE
Artists Lara Alcantara James Burke Felipe Chavez Eve De Haan Kay Gasei Steve Rudin Charles Bane III Matt Neuman Mareo Rodriguez
INNER STATES ArtnFolly are proud to introduce Inner States, an inaugural exhibition in a series of takeovers at the former Security Building. This exhibition brings together artists globally whose work reveals the physical, emotional and psychological states we have faced over recent years. The exhibition reflects current social and political tensions in the world today in the unique perspectives of nine artists, through mediations, everyday routines, insecurities, anxieties, isolation, hopes, dreams and fears.
The exhibition offers a chance to make positive commentary on our society, presented in a historic building in an area of Downtown Miami that has widely seen the impact of depression and economic decline. In an ever-increasing time of confinement and uncertainty, the exhibition marks a turning point. Through artistic expression, there is an opportunity for connection, experience and unity.
Guest curated by Chantelle May Purcell
SPONSORED BY
LARA ALCANTARA, Just a Reminder, 2020, Digital C-print on archival paper, 40 x 35in., Edition of 5, $3,600.00
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LARA ALCANTARA Spiral Jetty Digital C-print on archival paper 40 x 35 in. Edition of 5 $3,600.00
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LARA ALCANTARA (Venezuelan, born 1982) Quarantine, 2020 Digital C-print on archival paper 90 x 60 in. Edition of 5 $6,500.00
CHARLES BANE III, Mortal Instruments, Oil on canvas 16 x 12 in. $1,500.00
CHARLES BANE III “She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not”, 2021 Oil on canvas 48 x 60 in. $8,500.00
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FELIPE CHAVEZ In His Room, He Tries, 2021 Indian ink wash on 638gsm Paper 30 x 22 in. $3,500.00
KAY GASEI, NEWS Series: WDWGFH (We Do We Go From Here?), Digital painting + Oil on Canvas, 33.1 x 23.4 in $7960.00
STEVEN RUDIN Metropolitan (Tableau), 2019 Photographs, Hand-Cut Paper Collage Tableau 32 x 40 in. $15,000.00
CHARLES BANE III Untitled, 2018 Oil on canvas 30 x 24 in. $2,500.00
EVE DE HAAN Robot Spam Neon, perspex and spam cans 40 x 40 in. $11,950.00
STEVEN RUDIN Bar Mitzvah Noir, 2018 Archival pigment on Matte Paper 76 x 52 in. A/P 1/1 $6,500.00
Matt - Untitled, 40.6 x 40.6 cm £2,250.00
MATT NEUMAN Untitled Series Acrylic paint on panel with custom baltic birch frame 16 x 16 in. $2,250.00 each
CHARLES BANE III
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Happy Meal, Fresh Produce (Dicks Still Life, Brutus) Oil on canvas 24 x 30 in. $3,000.00
JAMES BURKE The Middle Class, 2019, Oil on canvas, 78 x 59 in., $4,000.00
MAREO RODRIGUEZ Gold Stone Wall Sculpture Resin, Fiberglass and chrome paint 35 x 29.5 in. $7,370.00
MATT NEUMAN X Acrylic paint on panel with custom baltic birch frame 65.5 x 65.5 in. $15,000.00
ARTIST BIOS
LARA ALCANTARA (Venezuelan, born 1982) FEELING THE PANDEMIC is a colorful series of self-portraits born entirely out of quarantine. Alcantara, a professional photographer in New York City, found her world flipped upside down when quarantine hit in early 2020. Like many others, her once busy lifestyle filled with meetings, staff and lighting teams, studios and directors was quickly replaced with homemaking activities such as house chores, cooking, cleaning, and assisting with her children’s studies.
The abrupt halt was debilitating, but Alcantara, a reflective and spiritual being, realized she had been given the gift of time on a silver platter. Fears of isolation turned into quiet contemplation, and mundane daily life spurred a robust creativity and a return to the camera that produced over 40 works for the series.
CHARLES BANE III (American, born 1985) Bane is a native and resident of West Palm Beach, FL. Where he keeps a studio steps away from The Norton Museum of Art. After playing with many mediums and styles of work, he’s committed to still lives and vanitas. Exploring in a contemporary fashion the challenges of capitalism, consumerism, and how we as a society struggle and fluctuate between Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Never afraid to put in a police car or try to put in context racial injustice in America. His work, whether it’s public installations or still lives capture a universal feeling. Some interpreting the work one way or another, but still being able to engage and understand the work.
KAY GASEI (Zambian + British 1991) The synthesis of myths and stories inspires London-based artist Kay Gasei. Relishing the intricate aspects and intimacy that stories hold, he utilizes an innovative approach of his inspiration merged with cultures, past, present and extinct.
These entities are the underlying framework of his paintings. He moulds the Hellenic aesthetic’s mythical attributes derived from Greek mythology to devise a new take on the artistic realm to communicate his narrative.
FELIPE CHAVEZ (Colombian) Felipe Chavez is a contemporary painter, born in Colombia and now working in London, England. With the use of Indian ink, he explores the notion of existence in an empty space- and attempts to demonstrate the purity behind belonging to a tangible world as both a human, and a man. At a young age, he saw his potential within the arts and decided to study art in college and with a plan to start a degree in architecture, he found himself fascinated by the 3D form but soon realized it was the beauty of conceptualism and structure that intrigued him, so he shortly decided to withdraw his university application and concentrate his career on the practice of fine art. Self-Taught, Felipe draws inspiration from artists such as: Emil Alzamora, Egon Schiele, and Marlene Dumas.
In the last few years he has explored his medium and is constantly learning more about the beauty of its textures. He considers Ink and the way it reacts, mysteriously hollow, forcing the viewer to look around the page and submerse themselves into its marble like forms. As a consequence, his recent collection of works have become the perfect hosts to portray the rawness of Felipe’s aesthetic, and the visceral side of figurative expressionist art.
EVE DE HANN (British + Mauritian, born 1992) Eve De Haan is a young London based artist with an incredible appetite for creativity. Her degree in Theology has informed and influenced her work, developing a strong body of installations which examine concepts of change and the imprint technology is having on youth culture.
She has exhibited in Europe and the US in iconic galleries such as the Saatchi gallery and the Museum of Neon in LA. She was recently invited to lead on an Instagram Live for Tate London. She has had billboards in London, created artwork for Nike & been featured in major publications.
Her creations are provocative and challenging. Through her love of the written word Eve finds neon the perfect medium to explore the gradients and shades of meaning within a statement.
MATT NEUMAN (American, born 1985) Matt Neuman is a painter and printmaker who is fascinated by design. During his MFA years at Boston University, Matt began to focus his attention on basic geometric interactions. Eight years later, Matt’s work still probes geometry as a means of providing structural logic that resonates with humanity’s instinctive tendency to organize information. From his studio in the Bronx, Matt is continuously pushing his practice forward. Influences like physics, pattern, and the infinite creep into Matt’s stream of consciousness and fuel his exploration of spatial
James Burke (British, born 1981) Burke’s philosophy has always been to challenge Art’s dependency on the gallery institution, making work that focuses on accessibility and the desire to positively connect people with their environment. His work draws on themes of Art as commodity, fusing a wide range of disciplines from fine Art, graphic design, interior design and architecture. Burke is the founder and Creative Director of International, multi disciplinary creative studio Acrylicize. Founded in 2003, the practice explores the notion of ‘Art as Identity’.
Burke has also established shesh his graffiti tag - presenting it as a visual brand, continuing his exploration of Art and the commercial world. Here he examines the symbiotic relationship between Art, fashion, music and the identity of the Artist as a brand in their own right.
MAREO RODRIGUEZ (Mexican, b. 1981) Mareo Rodriguez’s work is a view on matter, topography and natural territory conceived as a living being, latent and in constant movement. Epidermal stratification wrought by time, with a telluric language emerging, pressing, gravitating, revealing different tensions through the landscape, experience rooted in line, color and repetition. Matt’s most recent works introduce color field gradients to the pattern based compositions for which he’s known. Simultaneously graphic and spatial, this series of multilayer woodblock prints have a seductive surface quality rare in relief print media. I n the artists’ words, “I’ve always relied on my internal compass to guide me through iteration and development of forms. Now more than ever with the normalcy in our lives upended and the details of our futures uncertain, I crave and respond to the positive energy coming off the work. In the context of the now, the interplay of gradient color and arcing forms have become characters, like ourselves, twisting and turning in our tight spaces in search of balance, contentment and flow.”
STEVEN RUDIN Barcelona, 2018 Archival pigment on Matte Paper 76 x 49 in. A/P 1/1 $6,500.00