Dancing With Colors connects to psychedelic experiments of the sixties and the disco era of the eighties. Cecilia André makes the non-corporeal colored shadows into a platform for visual kinetic experimentation and a place for spontaneous performers. When seen from outside this shop windows are illuminated with colored lights that seem to dance, suggesting an other-worldly atmosphere where the space – floors, walls, and even visitors’ bodies become canvases themselves.
Visits can be scheduled by appointment at: https://bit.ly/DColors
ChaShaMa artspace – 266 W 37th St, New York, NY
June 11 – July 14 June 11, 17, 18, 19, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27. July 11, 12, 13, 14. From 4 to 7pm. If appt is taken, the gallery will be open to all.
Cecilia André | ceciliaandre.com | insta @cecilia_andre_art
Artist Statement
My work explores light and color. I connect textured colorful fabrics, malleable plastics, and found objects by layering, stitching and glueing. Each composition is brought to life once incident light fills the gaps and traverses the transparent materials. Through the color gradations of my pieces, I play with the properties of light. Diverse traditions inspire and collide within my work: the transcendence of stained glass, the versatility of assemblage, the gestural impulse of abstract expressionist painting, and digital art. By sewing pieces together, these traditions are brought within the realm of feminine expressions of the past, which I believe deserve to be seen in a new light.My art pieces are light-sieves; thin, buoyant, colorful stretches of colored vinyl. The color expansions of the aqueous-like materials create a membrane that modifies our field of vision. One gets a sensation akin to that of looking into a swimming pool. My installations are interactive and invite the audience to dream into them. Pedestrians will instinctively make connections from the work to the surrounding urban city-scape as well as to garment district neighborhood due to the stitching of colors and fabric. Transparent layers of color partially invite and obscure the clarity of the colored shapes by either shifting their focus or giving them movement. The viewer’s perception will blur the boundaries with the inside and outside of the exhibition space. The transparent artwork on the window front connects and distances them at the same time. It will invite many gazes inside which will capture the color shadows and swirling mobiles and incite curiosity. When choosing to step into the space and observe or dance, visitors fuse the contour of their bodies with those of the artwork, confronting the impermanence of their visual experiences.
