Hijinks

HIJINKS
FEBRUARY 24 – MARCH 22, 2024
Opening Reception Saturday, February 24, 4-6 pm

JAVIER ARIZMENDI KALB
KIM FROHSIN
JYLIAN GUSTLIN
GENEVIEVE L’HEUREUX

Andra Norris Gallery is proud to present Hijinks — an exhibition featuring new paintings, assemblage, mixed media, and aquatint etchings from four contemporary artists who forge into the unknown with aesthetic bravery.

JAVIER ARIZMENDI-KALB
Mexican-American artist and internationally renowned architect Javier Arizmendi-Kalb’s abstract paintings are characterized by their pictorial structure of space and the relationship between line and color. A dynamic new series of assemblages — presented in plexiglass boxes — reflects the artist’s interest in formal issues of geometry, composition, color, abstraction, mass, volume, and shape. These small works are also explorations of the nature of various mediums, including found advertisements on cardboard, and they demonstrate his ability to further communicate signature painterly applications that consider the natural world as it intersects with utilitarian design.

KIM FROHSIN
Bay Area Figurative artist Kim Frohsin’s iconic Cautionary Tales series is comprised of over 50 paintings and mixed media works that consider the dizzying growth and development of her beloved San Francisco in 2015. In this exhibition, we are thrilled to present major works from Cautionary Tales, including traffic cones, cone-scapes, orange mesh abstract paintings, and street sign textile collages.

JYLIAN GUSTLIN
Jylian Gustlin explores how science and mathematics intersect with art in her abstract and representational mixed media paintings that she created with acrylic on wood panels and other media, including ink, gouache, pencils, and resins. She intuitively brings her ideas into being by immersing herself in the complex themes that form the basis of her process-driven work.

GENEVIÈVE L’HEUREUX
We are delighted to exhibit for the first time the elegant work of printmaker Geneviève L’Heureux, whose methods and expertise include a variety of aquatint etching techniques, mezzotint, and chine collé. L’Heureux’s evocative works oscillate between opposing concepts that mirror the human condition. Fittingly, the works simultaneously induce a sense of meditative calm while being aesthetically destabilizing, in that they bring us away from the comfort of established norms and closer to our fundamental nature: one of continuous transformation.

For more information, please contact Andra Norris.

ANDRA NORRIS GALLERY
311 Lorton Avenue
Burlingame, CA 94010
gallery: 650 235 9775
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