Gemma Holzer
June 2020
Online Exhibition
Four You Gallery is pleased to present artist Gemma Holzer’s first solo exhibition entitled ‘Alone Together’.Californian born Holzer recently graduated with a first class bachelors degree in Fine Art from City & Guilds in London, and has already exhibited works in the Netherlands and the United States. Primarily, her work is a reflection on childhood, the following emergence into adulthood, and life in the post digital age. The artist uses creative tools including autobiographical illustration, references to popular culture and indications to familiar children’s media to demonstrate her philosophies. Holzer paints primarily with brightly coloured oils and acrylics to attain surfaces that mimic digital screens. Her painterly method realises saturated illusions that both absorb and activate dream-like recollections of youth.
‘Alone Together’introduces the fetus-like creature PinkBoy, a self-portrait of Holzer, who remains the subject of the paintings in this exhibition. PinkBoy is reminiscent of familiar cartoon imagery, and exists as an embodiment of Holzer’s childhood experiences. He is placed within the artificial worlds to raise questions and concerns around being human in today’s age, and depicts the artist’s own understanding and navigation of life within it.
Stickymonger
Lonesome Planet
February 19th – March 11th, 2020
OPENING: Wednesday, February 19th from 7-10PM
Facilité, Building 2, Dubai Design District, UAE
Four You Gallery’s inaugural exhibition entitled ‘LONESOME PLANET’ presents the recent work of South Korean born, and New York based artist Stickymonger. The artist works predominantly in paint, and has recently begun producing sculptors – some of which are showcased in this show. Stickymonger is informed by her direct experience of the world, she transforms space into one of pulsating fluctuation. Her work is autobiographical – she manipulates and distorts her own experiences through the mediums of paint and sculpture. A demonstration of dark and light, innocence and anxiety, one is transported into a liminal state of being.
The hypnotic gaze of her female subject is soft yet entirely unapologetic, they resolutely subvert the voyeuristic stare of the spectator. They offer insight into the dreamlike realities in which Stickymonger metaphysically resides. 3 World Trade Centre in New York City has accommodated the artist, putting her up in a studio that spans the whole of the 79th floor. Despite the chaotically busy surroundings of the city upon which she can contemplate from her expansive windows, Stickymonger’s overwhelming emotion is loneliness.
Four You Gallery offers Stickymonger this innovative space, and its dynamic platform upon which she can share her work and project her unique artistic voice.