
Emotional Landscapes
14 January – 4 February
FORMah is pleased to present “Emotional Landscapes”, a group show featuring works by Dana Nechmad, Adi Oren and Rives Wiley. The three artists’ works present contrasting perspectives on one’s emotional being, offering a spectrum of views and artistic approaches. The artists bring their own unique style to the gallery space, while exploring various aspects of the human experience. Distinct in their statements, all artworks share a deep message about the search for meaning, whether it comes from within human nature or a response to social interaction, and surrounding reality.
The show presents three artists that bring to the canvas the internal human experience as an Emotional Landscape. Exposing thought provoking visual moments while presenting the broad spectrum of life’s experience
Dana Nechmad transforms bodily experiences, affecting states, and existential modes into visual manifestations. Nechmad’s work is deeply personal and informed by
Adi Oren’s paintings
Rives Wiley is a photo surrealist painter who creates idealized interiors inspired by stock photos and social media. These interiors and the figures within them are trapped and confined to the scene and the edges of the canvas. Wiley’s work is fundamentally satirical and attempts to expose how we trap ourselves within the confines of a rectangular frame, influenced by social norms and the dissolution of original expression. Through her work, Wiley reflects the omnipresent influence and toll that such aesthetics have had on our individuality.
This exhibition will be on display from January 14th to February 4th at FORMah gallery, 42 Allen street, NYC.
Bios:
Adi Oren creates paintings that celebrate the exuberance of life. Through movement, gesture, and dance, she explores the concept of freedom. She was born in 1989 and raised in New York City, and completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at Rhode Island School of Design. Oren was Co-Chair of the Ellenville Arts Collective, where she extended her passion for the arts and the importance of bringing art to the community at large. In the summer of 2021 she painted a large-scale outdoor mural in the center of the Hudson Valley town, where her divers have become an emblem of renewal and freedom.
Oren’s work is included in private and corporate collections, and continues to sell at art fairs and galleries around the US. In her early years she fabricated window displays at the legendary Henri Bendel in New York City.
Rives Wiley (b. 1990) is an artist working in New York City. She holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Wiley’s work has been featured in publications such as Hyperallergic, Vogue, The Washington Post, Vice: The Creator’s Project, The Huffington Post, and Harpers Bazaar. Her solo exhibitions were shown across US and featured in multiple international art fairs. Wiley is a 2016 Hamiltonian Fellow, a recipient of a 2017 DC Commission for the Arts and Humanities Grant, and has been a Trawick Semi- Finalist.