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March 23 – April 26, 2021 | 79 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, NY
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Raymie Iadevaia, The Intangible Forest, 2020, Gouache, watercolor, and colored pencil on paper, 14 x 17 inches
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Halsey McKay Gallery is thrilled to present The Intangible Forest, Raymie Iadevaia’s first solo show with the gallery. Iadevaia’s intimately scaled landscapes are densely packed with marks built up into sublime atmospheres with impact that belie their modest size. The passages of paint—thick and thin, scraped and scumbled over, rubbed in, stained, and saturated—flutter in and out of focus in optical vibrations. They induce a hallucinatory effect of light holding itself taut, dancing in the pit of the eye, as in a daze, when language and logic cut out and the primacy of sight and intuition return. His imagined vistas depict those moments when it suddenly becomes dark, turning from day to night in a snap, triggering a reflection on the immediate past. Often referred to as Entre Chien et Loup, that time of day when the light is such that it becomes difficult to distinguish between a dog and a wolf, between friend and foe, between known and unknown.
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Raymie Iadevaia (b. 1984, Newport Beach, CA) is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. He received a BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts and an MFA from Art Center College of Design. His work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, New York, Switzerland, Berlin, and Japan. Recent group exhibitions include, Celestial Opera, Human Cathedrals curated by Lauren Wolchik at Paradice Palace, NY and Mirror Eye curated by Kate Mothes and Jes Cannon at Ortega y Gasset, NY.