If You Steal My Sunshine: California Abstraction Now
at Royale Projects
Royale Projects is pleased to announce If You Steal My Sunshine: California Abstraction Now, a group exhibition featuring Chelsea Boxwell, Heather Day, Priscilla Franco, Adee Roberson, Ladan Sedighi, and Rachel Strum
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The cross-pollination of music, style, and culture defined the 1990s. This fluidity of genres allowed for a unique expression based on the mishmash of fragments from a multitude of sources. Released in 1999, brother and sister duo, Len’s top charted single “Steal My Sunshine” brought together alternative, indie, pop, post-punk and hip-hop while sampling Andrea True Connection’s disco hit "More, More, More" (1976) and inspired by The Human League's "Don't You Want Me" (1981) forging an unprecedented sound characteristic of the time.
Today, visual abstraction has drawn a new generation of artists with urgency. Eradicating the constraints of the canon and systems in place, these young artists thrive with the freedom to explore uncharted territory. The six artists in this exhibition sample from their predecessors while infusing composition, color, form, material, and a vocabulary, fearlessly of their own aesthetic and narrative.
(b. 1989) Chelsea Boxwell creates suspended multidimensional paintings that reinvent the medium. Embarking on a journey to highlight the beauty of the unfinished while embracing the uncontrolled, the artist lays out various fabrics across her studio pouring and splattering paint and glitter that spills onto the multiple surfaces before creating the final site-specific form that does not adhere to a stretcher, frame, or wall.
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The cross-pollination of music, style, and culture defined the 1990s. This fluidity of genres allowed for a unique expression based on the mishmash of fragments from a multitude of sources. Released in 1999, brother and sister duo, Len’s top charted single “Steal My Sunshine” brought together alternative, indie, pop, post-punk and hip-hop while sampling Andrea True Connection’s disco hit "More, More, More" (1976) and inspired by The Human League's "Don't You Want Me" (1981) forging an unprecedented sound characteristic of the time.
Today, visual abstraction has drawn a new generation of artists with urgency. Eradicating the constraints of the canon and systems in place, these young artists thrive with the freedom to explore uncharted territory. The six artists in this exhibition sample from their predecessors while infusing composition, color, form, material, and a vocabulary, fearlessly of their own aesthetic and narrative.
(b. 1989) Chelsea Boxwell creates suspended multidimensional paintings that reinvent the medium. Embarking on a journey to highlight the beauty of the unfinished while embracing the uncontrolled, the artist lays out various fabrics across her studio pouring and splattering paint and glitter that spills onto the multiple surfaces before creating the final site-specific form that does not adhere to a stretcher, frame, or wall.
Listen here: Chelsea Boxwell on Abstraction on The ArtWord Podcast
