Solar Music / Lunar Revel.
Uffner & Liu
June 27—August 15
Uffner & Liu is pleased to present Solar Music / Lunar Revel, a group exhibition that explores the dual forces of the sun and moon — radiant and reflective, irrefutable and elusive — as they move in continual dialogue across the sky and through the human psyche. These celestial bodies, long central to the visual, spiritual, and scientific vocabularies of cultures across time, serve here as metaphoric and material anchors for a range of inquiries — mythological, phenomenological, ecological, and affective. Participating artists include Piper Bangs, Katherine Bradford, Shuyi Cao, Christian Franzen, Jess Xiaoyi Han, Yulia Iosilzon, Olivia Jia, Wanda Koop, Reeha Lim, Zoe McGuire, Heidi Norton, Laurie Nye, Katie Paterson, Anna Danyang Song, Jia Sung, Daniel Um, Angela Wei, and Leon Zhan.
The exhibition title borrows from Solar Music (1955), a painting by Spanish-Mexican surrealist Remedios Varo, in which a cloaked figure strums golden rays of sunlight like harp strings. Varo’s image offers a key interpretive lens for the show: the notion that a substance as immaterial as light — and by extension, the indefinable theses of artmarking — can be channeled, translated, and transfigured through aesthetic form. In this way, the sun and moon serve as both metaphor and methodology for the artists in Solar Music / Lunar Revel, a conduit to render the intangible visible.
