THE ARMORY SHOW
PUBLIC DATES:
Friday, September 6, 11am–7pm
Saturday, September 7, 11am–7pm
Sunday, September 8, 11am–6pm
BOOTH P42
Javits Center
Crystal Palace Entrance
429 11th Avenue
New York, NY 10001
smoke the moon presents imaginal disc, a two-person exhibition of new work by Nambé, New Mexico-based artists Cory Feder and Diego Medina (Piro-Manso-Tiwa). Feder and Medina are partners in work and life, weavers of an ever-flowing desert mythos. Through a formal command of material and devotion to small gestures, the artists converge in a sublime pursuit of a cosmic ataraxia.
Guided by meditations on ancestral symbology through his deep ties to Puebloan cosmologies, Diego Medina creates scenes that depict a world felt but not often grasped–one filled with an eros of transcendent visions. Medina’s ancestors made their home in the Mesilla Valley, where he continues to actively contribute to the preservation of traditional lifeways.
Feder is an illustrator and ceramicist who draws on her Korean-Jewish heritage to create vessels of visual language that are both profound and whimsical. Feder’s intuitive invocation of color, pattern and form create tableaus of intimate folklore. Her work begins with storytelling and relationality, an interior space that she transmutes to panel and clay.
The artists expertly manipulate and push the bounds of humble materials, both working masterfully with colored pencil. Throughout both artists’ imagery, a tie between the sensual and monastic emerges. All symbols exist on a devotional plane: desert rocks, strands of hair, coupled faces, and rooms of one’s own all equal in their splendor, all floating toward the heavens
Through patience and fidelity to their craft, Feder and Medina present crystalline visions of worlds yet to come. Ascension is coupled with earthliness. There is the distinct feeling that Feder and Medina are guides toward this realm; their work crackling with shared secrets soon to be revealed as long as we stay present, and open ourselves to the heavens.
THE ARMORY SHOW
A cornerstone of New York’s cultural landscape since its founding in 1994, The Armory Show brings the world’s leading international contemporary and modern art galleries to New York each year. The fair plays a leading role in the city’s position as an important cultural capital through elevated presentations, thoughtful programming, curatorial leadership, meaningful institutional partnerships, and engaging public art activations.