ATC Gallery is pleased to announce Summer Shorts, an exhibition of small format works by Karina Beltrán (Tenerife), Luis Kerch (Mexico), Nicolás Laiz Placeres (Lanzarote) and Julia Medyńska (Poland). The opening will be on Saturday 3 July from 11am to 2pm, and the exhibition will remain open until 24 July.
Karina Beltrán (Tenerife, 1968) graduated in Fine Arts from the University of La Laguna. She obtained a Master's Degree in Fine Arts from Chelsea College of Art and Design and a Postgraduate Degree in Photography from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London. Her pictorial works, generally in small format, are characterised by the use of an abstract, geometric language, in refined and schematic compositions. Conceptually, her work flees from certainties, it is situated on that ambiguous and hidden edge of the visible. The artist invents an imaginary of the senses through the construction of a poetics configured from the emotional. The being in continuous movement, the individual and the multitude, the external gaze and private reality, are issues present in her work, as well as intimacy, isolation, nostalgia, concealment and loss.
Luis Kerch (Mexico, 1962) currently lives in Tenerife. He graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Miami, Florida, and later studied at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, obtaining a Master of Science in Communication Design in 1990. Kerch is a plenairist painter. He organises his canvases in the manner of reverberations that activate our imagination, giving light to the landscapes they seem to form. His images are shifting, oscillations of light and colour caused by translucent stains. His motifs seem not to dissolve completely but to remain in a state of perpetual dissolution. As in Turner, in his work the intensity merges with the instant. Luis Kerch has exhibited in the USA, Venezuela, Mexico, Tenerife and Portugal.
Nicolás Laiz Placeres (Lanzarote, 1975) holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Goldsmiths College, University of London and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid. He has received numerous awards, and his works have been exhibited in the Canary Islands and the Spanish mainland, as well as in Vienna, Berlin, London and Seoul, among other cities. His work consists of a reflection, through different techniques, on concepts such as landscape, exoticism and the construction of nature as a cultural, social and economic concept. In his projects he can adopt, depending on his needs, the point of view of a naturalist or a historian, and thus employ both aesthetic concepts of Mexican socialist muralism and the Russian constructivist avant-garde.
Julia Medyńska, born in socialist Poland, escaped with her family to West Berlin in 1985. At the age of 19, Julia moved to New York to study acting. Subsequently, in 2009, she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts, and a Master Of Fine Arts Degree (M.F.A.) from Columbia University (New York). Medynska has received a scholarship from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation. Heavily influenced by her experience as an actress, Julia's figurative paintings are narratives that explore the psychology of the individual and the social mask as a concealment of underlying psychological truths. Influenced by baroque painting, Julia Mendynska brings to the canvas an inner world, which is both canonical and very personal. Her theatrical brushstrokes produce selective moments in movement, out of focus, making faces and figures indistinguishable from their surroundings.
