Eccentric Abstraction Stephanie Beck • Sky Kim • Christina Massey • Sui Park Curated by John Cino April 6 – June 2, 2024
Reception:  April 6, 2024, 5:00 – 7:00PM
Coffee with a Curator:  May 4, 2024, @ 12:00 PM (In person and on Zoom)

MoCA LI and the Patchogue Arts Council are proud to present Eccentric Abstraction on view from April 6 through June 12 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Long Island, 20 Terry Street Patchogue.  In the late 1960’s a group of artists intensified the cool emotive presentation of Minimalism with works that were expressive and idiosyncratic.  Of the many names given to the movement, one was Eccentric Abstraction.  The artists of the present exhibition continue that tradition into the present.  

Eccentric Abstraction offers four artists who each produce works through unique and somewhat obsessive processes.  Ultimately their works produce an impact through the sum of their final form and the viewer’s awareness of the labor-intensive process. 

Stephanie Beck works by joining wood into works that hybridize the geometry of architecture with the softness of organic forms.  In her mosaic pieces hard-edged geometry are combined with complex geometry and the patterning and colors of various wood grains.  In the linear constructions, milled wood is combined with found branches through an inventive hinging technique.  These evoke prosthetics and our manipulation of nature.

Sky Kim uses watercolor to create tiny puddles of color which combine to make organic forms existing just beyond recognition.  Her pieces evoke meditative and ultimately spiritual states through the recognition of minute detail coalescing into unitary compositions. 

Christina Massey uses repurposed materials to create works which exist between art and craft, painting and sculpture.  Using strips of aluminum resourced from craft beer cans, she weaves structures reminiscent of marine forms or floral designs.  Through these pieces she comments on the dialects of natural vs artificial and masculine vs feminine stereotypes.

Sui Park weaves plastic monofilament or zip ties into the membranes of simple organic forms. The pieces are flexible and fluid which captures the transient nature of emotions, memories, and expectations while speaking to the pervasiveness of synthetic materials in the natural world.

The artists of Eccentric Abstraction bring to life inert materials through unique and intensive processes.  Along with the finished forms these processes are essential to our understanding of the artist’s vision. 

There will be an opening reception on April 6 at 5:00 pm
Coffee with a Curator, May 4, noon will feature a live discussion between the artists and the curator.

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