B49:UNTITLED ART FAIR
Viewing Room
LatchKey Gallery is proud to present, a sensory-filled experience of abstract works by Brianna Bass and Ivelisse Jiménez for this year's UNTITLED Art Fair.
Through color, texture, and pattern, Bass and Jiménez investigate abstraction beyond the boundaries of the canvas creating a phenomenological experience of color and space. Each of the artists directly engage viewers through their distinctive visual language resulting in a sensory dialogue between the observer and the work of art.
BRIANNA BASS
Brianna Bass’s compositions are a visual dance for the eye, a dynamic interplay of gradient colors and numerical formulas, used in conjunction with the color wheel to create illusions of movement and expanding space. Her paintings explore the limits of color theory, utilizing colors as codifiable units within an image to forge a relationship between optical and linguistic realms. Brianna's constantly evolving visual games invite viewers to hover at the boundary between art and science, showcasing the beauty and complexity of natural patterns. In contrast to the flatness common in geometric painting, she relies on shadows, warbling edges, and visual noise to interrupt and expand perception, creating an environment wherein the observer can forge a synesthetic experience.
Brianna Bass ( B. 1990) earned her MFA from Yale School of Art in 2022, and BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 2013. She has presented in lectures with Missouri State University, Pratt Institute, and Yale University. She has exhibited work nationally and internationally at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery (NY), Latchkey Gallery (NY), The Green Family Foundation (TX), Noh-Art in Naples, Italy, and Tree Art Museum in Beijing, China.
IVELISSE JIMENEZ
Ivelisse Jiménez’s (b. 1966 S.J., Puerto Rico) installations and assemblages present visual propositions regarding change and the construction of meaning in dialogue with the inhabited space. Her work has been exhibited in the United States, Europe, The Americas and Puerto Rico at museums, galleries, biennials, art fairs and other institutions. She has been part of the Museo del Barrio Biennale NYC, Prague Biennale, Cuenca Biennale and ARCO project rooms in Spain, among others. Awards include The Joan Mitchell Award for Painters and Sculptors and The Adolf Gottlieb Foundation Grant. Collections include Museo del Barrio NYC, Bronx Museum NY and Museo de Puerto Rico, San Juan where she is exhibiting her work currently.
Jiménez has a BA in Humanities from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras and MFA in Studio Arts from New York University. After living and working in NY for 20 years, she now has her residence and studio in Puerto Rico.
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