Exhibition Review: RGB at Yossi Milo Gallery
RGB, a group exhibition featuring the work of John Gill, Daniel Gordon, Emily Mullin, and Ettore Sottsass, explores the four artists’ unique styles as they experiment with color, design, and illusion. The unique curation of works is approached through different mediums, creating a compelling show that combines harmonious and independent elements of each artist’s work in one cohesive display.
Daniel Gordon, one of the artists featured, dives into a unique process of image-based practice. According to the gallery, Gordon’s process involves printing images, cutting them out, and assembling “a three-dimensional tableau in the studio, which he then photographs with a large-format camera.” Gordon then simplifies these works to the RGB color scheme. Gordon’s artwork “Tulips and Apples in Blue” displays a modern take on the time-honored artistic tradition of still-life depictions.
Working with a contrasting medium, Ettore Sottsass creates using furniture and design, combining Italian and Mediterranean influences with the RGB color palette. Sottsass’s mirrors and glass are art-deco with a bit more flair and challenge the stigma of traditional decor design.
Both John Gill and Emily Mullin work with decor and design, using mediums such as ceramics and powder-coated steel. Mullin reconstructs the design of a typical vessel while using elements of the traditional still-life practice to construct mind-bending works. Her works such as “LJL Garden II” use color and pattern to create vibrant vessels that beautifully display themselves and the flowers it carries.
Aiming to use ceramics to create dynamic, 3-D works, Gill strays from typical design narratives as well. “Sake Bottle” clearly showcases his unique method, morphing something typically mundane into an origami-like sculpture. Gill’s work immediately catches the eye and toys with a playful perspective on ceramic design that is urgently needed.
Although distinct in their respective works, these four artists combined their craft to build a larger-than-life exhibition, connecting their works through motifs such as color and pattern. The Yossi Milo Gallery manages to curate a show around something as simple as the colors displayed in RGB while showcasing the magnitude and uniqueness of simplicity.
RGB will be on display until August 12th at Yossi Milo Gallery, 245 10th Ave, New York City.