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Dagmara Genda will have an exhibition opening next weekend at 3rd Ward in Brooklyn, as the winner of their most recent Open Call competition.

Genda’s work is a mix of site specific all work and intricate drawing.  Genda’s works on paper are beautifully rendered, organically growing and twisting phantasms.  One really needs to zoom in to see just how much is going on in them.  Often they are full of contrasting imagery: buildings and hair, birds and communists, all amid flowery ornamental motifs.  There is an energy and level of detail that reminds me of Manabu Ikeda (whose work I loved so much in the recent Bye Bye Kitty exhibition).

Unlike Ikeda, Genda’s works have no sense of gravity.  There is no real sense of up or down, of backwards or forwards, of in or out.  The compositions seem to twist their way in and out of existence, and we are not sure if we are seeing something be born or torn apart.

The upcoming show at 3rd Ward, called Building Disaster, will open August 19th.

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All artworks are copyright Dagmara Genda, and were borrowed from the artist’s website.  More information on the upcoming exhibition can be found here.

 

Tagged: 3rd Ward, buildings, Dagmara Genda, drawing, installation, organic shapes, wall drawing, wallpaper