Our friends at Thinkspace Projects are excited to kick off their 2023 programming with a series of shows in their space, with the main gallery being a solo exhibition with Ryol (aka Ryo Laksamana) alongside solo exhibits from Shinnosuke Hariya, Michael Polakowski and Abi Castillo in their other gallery spaces.
Visual artist RYOL’s (aka RYO LAKSAMANA) new body of work, Caught in the Art, fills the space with paintings that showcase how light is the most fundamental element in the visual arts. A work can become more dramatic with the use of light. Light becomes the experimental medium in Ryo’s new series of oil paintings.
When we look at Rembrandt's work, we can see that the light captured in the painting is the light that is surrounding the object or model that has been set, producing a dramatic visual that is caught by the eye and transferred into the painting.
Caught In The Art is a play on the phrase "caught in the act," and refers to the play of light that appears to focus directly on the objects in the painting that appear to be cornered.
