Usually, artists are portrayed as lone geniuses working in solitude. This isn’t the case for South African-born artist Keya Tama whose solo exhibition at Harman Initiatives, The place Our Worlds Meet, options collaborative artworks created with distinguished artists from across the globe. Spanning years of inventive exploration, this exhibition provides perception into Tama’s profession and community-minded strategy, highlighting the wealthy tapestry of his inventive journey by way of collaboration.
Every art work in The place Our Worlds Meet is greater than the sum of its elements, mixing the artists’ kinds and mediums to create one thing completely new. Experiments like that of Tama with Kevin Cincotta or Spencer Gabour reveal how artists can synthesize their kinds right into a harmonious entire, concealing the place one artist’s contribution ends and the opposite begins. Different approaches, like that between Tama and Adele Renault or Audrey Kawasaki, create contemporary interpretations of an artist’s work by way of stylistic comparability. Whereas Tama’s hand reveals by way of in his repetition of flat symbolic icons, every motif is remodeled by the various visions of his collaborators.
The work and ceramics on show contact upon themes of sacred reminiscence, the expertise of leaving one’s nation of origin, and the journey of discovering and forming a brand new neighborhood. Mixing the non-public symbolism and mythos of every artist, dragons, tigers, mountains, cowboys, wrestlers, and snakes are now not emblems of particular person significance however a shared entity between collaborators. Daring, vivid, and playful, every art work transcends particular person contributions, weaving collectively methods, concepts, and inventive approaches into a gathering of separate worlds.
The place Our Worlds Meet opens on Saturday, July thirteenth with a reception 6-8 pm at Harman’s Los Angeles location at 2754 S La Cienega Blvd Suite B,
