Agró/Glickman STEP (1) at Scope Miami 2007

What Lies Beneath

Agró/Glickman STEP (1) presents a curated group-show for ScopeMiami 2007, entitledWhat Lies Beneath.  The three artists included in the show are all dealing with the concept of what lies beneath the surface, whether that’s in the realm of the physical, psychological or visceral.

Born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, the now Brooklyn-based Zachary Clement plumbs the deepest depths with his paintings…and in so doing, he successfully captures the purity and intensity of darker human emotions at their most primal level.
As a self-taught artist, his approach to painting is very instinctual and “from the gut”.  His body of work has been evolving through two main series.  The first one, “Visitor,” consists of self-portraits and it documents his struggle to leave one place in his life to arrive at another.  The second series, “Young Alexander,” springs from that journey and aptly uses infants as the metaphor for his re-birth.

Columbian-born Ana Garcés Kiley also relies on metaphor in the imagery she uses in her paintings.  Her work is an unveiling, in both an imagined and literal sense.  She seeks to create a visual language about the mysterious archetypes that inundate and drive our society.  The ephemeral and diaphanous qualities of the sheer material she paints on (a transparent polyester fabric) and creates layers with, parallels her questioning of those archetypes that defy simple definitions. 

And lastly, Neapolitan-born Angelo Musco’s Murmek (means ant in Greek) Project is the most literal portrayal of what lies beneath…as it’s a digital rendering of a system of tunnels and chambers underneath the earth’s surface, where humans act as the stand-ins for ants.  The wall installation will consist of 113 photographs of various sizes (ranging from 3”x 4” to 12”x 12”), which taken together will recreate the industrious activity of an ant colony.  This work is being created expressly for Miami, and is the last installment of a trilogy (the two previous projects were also presented, successively, at the last two scopeMiami fairs).