Indecent Exposure-Exposed and Unconscious
Lawrence James Bailey, Mary DeVincentis, Guillermo Jimenez, Thomas Whittaker Kidd, Martin Kramer, Nilay Lawson, Easton Miller, Loser Angeles, The MAC, Jim Ovelmen, Rabbit, Kata Unger and Cate White
Exhibition: May 21st - June 13th, 2022
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 21st from 6-9pm
The level of vulnerability displayed in the content of these artists’ works results in a deep identification with common elemental reflections on being human. The beauty of vulnerability, observing the nude mind as a way to unload a history of biases and filtration systems, brings comfort through discomfort caused by unfiltered communication.
The comfort comes from seeing individuals and basic human commonalities. Fear often shuts us down from understanding and looking at something clearly. Seeing beauty in identifying with our common vulnerability leads to connecting with individuals and creative reactions.
The works in this exhibition are held together by the way the Unconscious, a term Carl Jung used to describe what Sigmund Freud called the Subconscious, can display subject matter often relegated to the private sphere or kept to oneself completely. Conveying this subject matter in “normal” social interactions, would often be called “over sharing”. These artists generously display their essential thoughts.
Indecent Exposure-Exposed and Unconscious, contains works by 13 artists from Europe and the US; Lawrence James Bailey, Mary DeVincentis, Guillermo Jimenez, Thomas Whittaker Kidd, Martin Kramer, Nilay Lawson, Easton Miller, Loser Angeles, The MAC, Jim Ovelmen, Rabbit, Kata Unger and Cate White.
bG Gallery specializes in accomplished artists who regularly engage with and traverse traditional art ideologies such as expressive-conceptual, insider-outsider, high-low, figurative-abstract, among many others. bG’s aim is to bring authentic art with elements of human spirit back to the forefront of the contemporary art scene.
Nilay Lawson, "Oppressed and Destroyed by Imperialism", 2021 Flashe and ink on linen, 39" x 30"