TRANSITIONS

Transitions
January 20th - March 5th, 2022

Opening: Thursday, January 20th from 6-9pm

5 Harrison St
New York, NY 10013

A.M. Bjiere is proud to present its inaugural exhibition, Transitions, featuring works by internationally-renowned artists Javier Toro Blum (Chile), Le Fawnhawk (California), Javier León Pérez (Spain), Thomas Devaux (France), M. Benjamin Herndon (Rhode Island), Daniel O’Toole (Australia) and MK Balint (France).

Nothing is static.

Transitions examines both the ephemerality and physicality of the titular theme. Progressions and regressions, moving at once forward and back, reflecting beginnings and endings, gateways and time. The intersection of planes; gradients of light and color; intentional forms suddenly re-shaped and re-made by kinetic and divergent viewer perspectives, emerging into something both familiar and new.

Toro Blum’s monumental wall sculpture evokes an eclipse in transit, capturing the forces of mass in motion and the convergence of darkness and light.

Le Fawnhawk, modern master of the surreal, presents esoteric sculptures and an exclusive limited print, invoking the gateways where our imaginations spill into the concrete world; fantastical monolithic forms made real, moving endlessly there and back again, between the conscious and unconscious—fleeting permeance through the passage of perceived permanence. Javier León Pérez’s sculptural reliefs twist and turn and rise and fall from the walls, their intricate details placed meticulously—tediously by hand, one-by-one—yet dramatically transformed from each angle of sight. Thomas Devaux’s two-toned totems draw the audience forward, their hypnotic dichroic glass diffusing a mirrored composition over and across the space, pulling viewers toward a bewitching horizon of internal desire.

Daniel O’Toole presents the duality of night and day—a deep blue twilight giving way to a warmer dawn, and separately interjected by the magic hour in between; a closer look (and clever, innovative construction) reveals brilliant auroral depth. Handmade graphite, itself a transitioned form of elemental carbon, is carefully layered over itself repetitively before being selectively polished back off in M. Benjamin Herndon’s monochromatic works—there are no physical edges marking formal delineations on the canvas; rather, dark and light dance around and through one another, intersecting on the same plane, substance readily slipping back into the void and disappearing fully from view. MK Balint, a trained classical dancer, lets her interdisciplinary process shine in her magnificent oil paintings, where serene swaths of blue wash gracefully over the canvas, subtly indicating to the sweeping choreography of the hand that made them.

Nothing is static.