These Seeds Breathe
press release
These Seeds Breathe
Elisa Lendvay and Osamu Kobayashi
September 6- October 6 2019
Opening Friday September 6th 6 pm- 9 pm
Elisa Lendvay and Osamu Kobayashi both work in a way that is emblematic of plant growth. For “These Seeds Breathe” at Underdonk Gallery, they have given special focus to the seed.
In Osamu Kobayashi’s paintings, the sweep of the gesture is influenced by smaller moments that in themselves hold the form that will become the archetype of the image. Radiating again and again in eternal waves. In Elisa Lendvay’s sculpture she reduces form to its nascent state. The viewer watches them grow into wild and elegant assemblages yet through each movement they reflect themselves and the delicate, absurd, and raw beauty within that energy.
The seed is the center of the idea. The seed is emanating, breathing inward and outward. The seed contains the archetype that it will carry and expand upon in each stage of its growth. The metamorphosis of expansion and contraction, an eternal flux and morphological return, gives this work life. And we are left with a breathing body. An image that lives, for it sustains itself with its own breath.
Underdonk Gallery
1329 Willoughby Ave. Brooklyn, NY
Jefferson stop on the L train
