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3 Person Group Exhibition "Ambiguities" Mirus Denver, by Mirus Gallery on Jul 30, 2018 20:26:54 GMT 1,














Mirus Gallery is pleased to present Mirus Denver’s 3-person exhibition, "Ambiguities" including Wyatt Mills, Joseph Lee and Florian Eymann. The exhibition opens Saturday August 4th, 7-10pm and runs through September 1st, 2018. VIP and Press is open Saturday August 4th, 5:30-7pm. Exhibition is free and open to the public.

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he’ll tell you the truth”Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist

About the Exhibition:

“Ambiguities” is an extension of a recent group exhibition titled “Anamorphic Portraiture” we held at Mirus Gallery San Francisco in 2017. After a successful group show we decided to focus our attention on a smaller group of artists and invited 3 of the strongest painters to exhibit together in this 3-man exhibition. After inviting Wyatt Mills, Joseph Lee and Florian Eymann to exhibit we wanted to dig deeper into their approach to portraiture and the abstract nature of their work. Although each artist has their own approach to painting and their own conceptual approach to their work, there is still enough of a thread to pull them together.

The origin of the word “Ambiguities” dates back to the Latin word ambiguus "having double meaning, shifting, changeable, doubtful. What strikes me about the term when describing the paintings of these artist is this duality, and the nature for their work to have multiple interpretations. There is a hidden meaning behind not only their paintings but also the people they are portraying. Using abstraction and ambiguity to reflect a truer version of the truth than representation could ever capture. You are forced to see a brutal rendering of a portrait versus a beautiful representation of a person. This honesty allows contemplation and the hidden psyche behind people’s masks and exteriors to surface. Ambiguous also reflects the abstract and uncertain nature of their paintings, usually portraits. Each artist has their own way of arresting the viewer with direct representations of what look at times like faces, yet they could even stretch the idea of a portrait further into ambiguity. There is an uncertain energy that each artist is able to bring to their paintings that reflect a personal truth through abstraction and the use of different painting techniques. We are excited to share a new body of work from each of the 3 artists that will compliment as well as engage each other in gallery, allowing the spectator to reflect upon a diverse range of abstraction and portraits.

Mirus Gallery is pleased to present Mirus Denver’s 3-person exhibition, "Ambiguities" including Wyatt Mills, Joseph Lee and Florian Eymann. The exhibition opens Saturday August 4th, 7-10pm and runs through September 1st, 2018. VIP and Press is open Saturday August 4th, 5:30-7pm. Exhibition is free and open to the public.

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he’ll tell you the truth”Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist

About the Exhibition:

“Ambiguities” is an extension of a recent group exhibition titled “Anamorphic Portraiture” we held at Mirus Gallery San Francisco in 2017. After a successful group show we decided to focus our attention on a smaller group of artists and invited 3 of the strongest painters to exhibit together in this 3-man exhibition. After inviting Wyatt Mills, Joseph Lee and Florian Eymann to exhibit we wanted to dig deeper into their approach to portraiture and the abstract nature of their work. Although each artist has their own approach to painting and their own conceptual approach to their work, there is still enough of a thread to pull them together.

The origin of the word “Ambiguities” dates back to the Latin word ambiguus "having double meaning, shifting, changeable, doubtful. What strikes me about the term when describing the paintings of these artist is this duality, and the nature for their work to have multiple interpretations. There is a hidden meaning behind not only their paintings but also the people they are portraying. Using abstraction and ambiguity to reflect a truer version of the truth than representation could ever capture. You are forced to see a brutal rendering of a portrait versus a beautiful representation of a person. This honesty allows contemplation and the hidden psyche behind people’s masks and exteriors to surface. Ambiguous also reflects the abstract and uncertain nature of their paintings, usually portraits. Each artist has their own way of arresting the viewer with direct representations of what look at times like faces, yet they could even stretch the idea of a portrait further into ambiguity. There is an uncertain energy that each artist is able to bring to their paintings that reflect a personal truth through abstraction and the use of different painting techniques. We are excited to share a new body of work from each of the 3 artists that will compliment as well as engage each other in gallery, allowing the spectator to reflect upon a diverse range of abstraction and portraits.