Avenue 50 Studio presents, Women on the Verge featuring new works by Stephanie
Mercado and Alpha Lubicz, curated by artist Sonia Romero.
"Since I was able to successfully launch my solo career from the Avenue
50 Studio in 2006, I wanted to continue the tradition by offering the
opportunity to Alpha and Stephanie, two extremely talented emerging artists." --
Sonia Romero
Stephanie Mercado's work will include dry point prints, carefully scratched
to create a rich tonal range and intricately detailed imagery. It will also
include Mercado's latest sculptural installation, modeled after 17th century
French fashion. Both the prints and the dress interpret and deconstruct the
American Dream and our consumerist culture. The result is a body of work
that merges fashion with works on paper and combines historical images with
contemporary socioeconomic issues to redraw and reinterpret imagery that
has, for generations, shaped our ideas of prosperity.
Alpha
Lubicz is a collage artist who uses vintage imagery to create a new visual
language, merging her own
drawings with imagery appropriated from
aged books. Through stream of consciousness, she develops layered images
rich with pattern and a sense of nostalgia.
I
think collage is going to have its moment in the art world soon.
Collage as a medium is developing momentum among emerging artists, and
paper art in general is being taken out of the realm of craft, and into
the gallery. I'm interested in challenging the boundaries of what a collage
is, and what it means to appropriate imagery, by incorporating my own
drawings into the work. -- Alpha Lubicz
Please join Sonia Romero, Stephanie Mercado, Alpha Lubicz and the Avenue
50 Studio for an exciting evening of art, friendship and wine.
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