VOLUMES
Marina Kassianidou, Maia Ruth Lee
Lane Meyer Projects is pleased to present Volumes, a two-person exhibition featuring artworks by Marina Kassianidou and Maia Ruth Lee
Co-curated by Marsha Mack and Brooke Tomiello
August 19, 2022 - September 25, 2022
Opening Reception: Friday, August 19, 2022, 8pm - late
For Immediate Release:
Lane Meyer Projects is proud to present Volumes, a two-person exhibition by Colorado-based artists Marina Kassianidou (Boulder, CO) and Maia Ruth Lee (Salida, CO). The body’s relationship to language is the focus for works in the exhibition, with each artist interpreting the subtleties of marks, impermanence, and poetics stemming from the ever evolving concept of language.
Originally from Limassol, Cyprus, Marina Kassianidou’s practice is centered around mark and surface. In A Partial History III, she began with a well worn school book handed down by her Cypriot grandmother. Humble and tattered, partially disintegrated pages touched by her ancestors’ fingers bare the traces of use, and in those marks a unique physical language emerges. From her set of two inherited school books, Kassianidou has meticulously traced the silhouette of each worn page in what serves as a documentation between the lines; absent of written language, folds, creases, tears, stains, discolorations, and wormholes contain their own content.
Maia Ruth Lee’s artistic practice has long considered modes of language and its usage. Lee was born in South Korea, raised in Nepal, and spent nearly a decade in New York City before relocating to the Front Range - communication’s pitfalls and potential are well known to Lee. In her sculptural banner-like work included in the exhibition, silhouettes taken from bandages mark the surface of a hanging scroll. This ribbon-like ink painting cuts through the gallery, featuring abstracted silhouettes of bandages that serve as lexicon with a natural corollary to the body. Used when the body is damaged, bandages speak to the fragility of corporeality and its need for nurture.
The visceral experience of language enjoys new volumes in Volumes, as Kassianidou and Lee depart and converge around the universality of language and mark-making. In the cataloging of vintage school books and ink impressions taken from bandages, language’s form and flexibility is explored, offering nuanced meaning to the term body language.
Written by Marsha Mack
About the artists
Marina Kassianidou was born in Limassol, Cyprus, and currently lives and works between Limassol and Boulder, Colorado. Her work has been exhibited internationally at spaces such as the House of Cyprus (Athens, Greece), NiMAC (Nicosia, Cyprus), Thkio Ppalies (Nicosia,Cyprus), The Center for Drawing (London, UK), Tenderpixel Gallery (London, UK), YesMa’am Projects (Denver, Colorado), and GEORGIA (Denver, Colorado). She has been awarded fellowships at the Ragdale Foundation, Ox-Bow, and The Studios at MASS MoCA, among others. She is a recipient of the 2016 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant.
Press of Marina’s work: DARIA
Maia Ruth Lee (b.1983 Busan, South Korea) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Salida, Colorado. Select solo exhibitions include MCA Denver, Colorado; Jack Hanley Gallery, New York; and François Ghebaly, Los Angeles. Her works have been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Aspen Art Museum, Colorado; CANADA gallery, New York; Studio Museum 127, New York. Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
All photos taken by Erynn McConnell
