Matterscapes
Opening Reception: Friday, June 12th, 6pm - 9pm
On View June 12th - 25th
Inés Esnal is an architect from Madrid School of Architecture and a graduate of Master of Science in Advance Architectural Design (AAD) at Columbia University. Previously, she worked in collaboration with several international firms such as Jean Nouvel and TEN Arquitectos. She has won several distinguished art and architecture competitions. Esnal has worked in Madrid, Barcelona, Paris and since 2005, in NYC.
At Columbia University, under a Caja Madrid Fellowship, she developed a research project about "Digital Materiality" where she discovered the potentials of printmaking. The Leroy Neiman Center Gallery Matterscapes exhibition is the first solo presentation of her artwork. Matterscapes merges digital design with conventional printmaking techniques. Esnal seeks to provoke her materials through a process of physical resistance found in embossing. Whereas, line in architecture represents the material and defines space, in Esnal's series, line is self-referential; line is made of the same material it represents. Matterscapes invokes the sensation of space by rearranging the spontaneous behavior of algorithms and seeing the tension in between shapes, all in an attempt to organize the chaotic rhythms of mind and nature.
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