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Jane Lombard Gallery presents a solo booth by James Clar at UNTITLED, Miami Beach, 2019. The booth features new sculpture and installation inspired by the movement, aesthetics, and our ecological relationships with water. Clar engages with liquids as a cosmic force by using LED lights and filters to create complex and intimate structures. As the title suggests, Dynamic Entities, are those entities through which power flows and diminishes. The language is derived from Nietzsche’s contemplation on the forces of nature and the will of the individual upon such sublime systems.
This meditation on water and its irreplaceable properties brings to the forefront climate change as a cultural zeitgeist. In Clar’s practice, there is much examination of natural and cultural phenomena and the psychological and sociological impact of these occurrences. In this series, he focuses on natural beauty and the mesmerizing interactions between water and light; creating artificial replicas of nature's most beautiful moments. Clar enacts stillness in a rapidly moving world.
Water appears in different viscosities throughout the work, Twilight Rain is quick and darting, like fireflies at dusk or the trails of stars captured in a timelapse. The LED lights are cast in resin producing a gradient of light rays coming out of the dark. Underwater Sunburst captures the geometric movement of the sun's rays as viewed from beneath an ocean or pool. There is an essence of temporality in these portraits of water: curling lights and 2D screens suspend these moments in their artificial arms. 100% Humidity brings us closer to the eye of the storm, when the air is ripe with humidity, the trees seem alive with the wind, and animals feel the prick of disaster as a tropical storm emerges from the swirling waters.
Clar considers the impacts of climate change on these moments of beauty that are both wild and enticing. As we lose more and more of these precious natural materials, it is imperative to cherish the ecology of our declining planet.
To foster education and innovation in the areas of climate change, the artist and gallery have decided to donate a percentage of sales to the Ocean Conservancy environmental charity.https://oceanconservancy.org/
James Clar’s Gravitational Collapse is on view in UNTITLED ART’s Special
Projects. The LED sculpture represents an impossible geometric form of a
James Clar (b. Wisconsin, 1979) lives and works in New York, NY. Clar received
his BA in film and 3D animation and his MA in Media Art, the Interactive
Telecommunications Program (ITP) from the Tisch School, New York University.
His work has been exhibited at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ; Pera Art
Museum, Istanbul, Turkey; Can Framis Museum, Barcelona; Seoul Museum of
Art, Seoul, South Korea; Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL; Sharjah
Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE; MoMA PS1, New York, NY; Parasol unit, London,
UK; The New Museum, New York, NY; Somerset House, London, UK; Museum
on the Seam, Jerusalem and Shadai Gallery at Tokyo Polytechnic University,
Tokyo, Japan. Clar has been an artist in residence at Eyebeam Atelier in New
York, NY; Fabrica, Treviso, Italy, and the FedEx Institute of Technology/Lantana
About Jane Lombard Gallery
Jane Lombard Gallery, although (re)opened in 2015, has a rich 25 year history with an established reputation for bringing to the forefront artists who work within a global perspective/ aesthetic relevance to the social and political climate of today. The gallery seeks to promote both emerging and mid career artists in a variety of media - painting, sculpture, photography, installation and film - in the US, Europe and Asia, including new artists we have recently introduced to our program. Formerly Lombard Freid Projects, founded in 1995 in Soho, the gallery later moved to Chelsea, first to 26th Street and then to its current ground floor location on 19th Street in 2010.
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