Kevin Todora: 7head
February 27 - April 03,2021
From the gallery: "ERIN CLULEY GALLERY is pleased to announce the concurrent solo exhibitions of Dallas based KEVIN TODORA and the first exhibition with the gallery by Indianapolis based artist ROBERT HORVATH. The exhibitions will be on view February 27th through April 3rd at the gallery located in the Dallas Design District at 150 Manufacturing Street, Suite 210. KEVIN TODORA is known for pushing the boundaries of the photographic medium, often merging the painterly and the digital in a playful way. Revealing itself through cunning juxtaposed imagery and trompe l'oeil shadows, the end result is an image with a rich, familiar texture and implied depth. In 7head, Todora continues this dialogue and renders the work as a way to process the tumultuous past year of pandemic and all-consuming politics. The figures began as therapeutic gestures and digital sketches in an attempt to alleviate the artist’s anxiety, stemming from constant consumption of the news cycles (a.k.a. doom scrolling). Experimenting with a range of diverse media, Todora captures texture, explores different states of his materials, and examines the interaction between various colors to achieve the ideal visual vibration. The animated colors, in part influenced by reading children’s books to his two young daughters, imbue both a feeling of optimism and of shock – simultaneously overstimulating while also providing a reprieve from the collective gloom of the past year. First imagined from a darker perspective, the concept for Todora’s exhibition made reference to the seven-headed dragon, a mythological personification of the apocalypse. However, to free the concept from a solely pessimistic outlook, he permeated it with humor. The title also makes reference to the use of the number 7 as a vulgar phallic insult in Cantonese slang, with “7head” being an extension of that idiom to say that someone is especially stupid or useless. About the Artists
On View: February 27, 2021 | 1-5 pm
Erin Cluley Gallery
150 Manufacturing Street, Suite 210
Dallas , Texas 75212
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