AMY LEMAIRE & NICOLAS TOURON: SECOND NATURE

December 9, 2022 – January 28, 2023

373 Broadway
New York, NY 10013

An opening reception will take place at the gallery at 5PM on December 9, 2022.

SARAHCROWN is pleased to announce an exhibition by American artist duo Amy Lemaire and Nicolas Touron, Second Nature. The exhibition will take place between December 9, 2022 – January 28, 2023 at SARAHCROWN New York’s Tribeca location. Working in 3D printed porcelain and borosilicate glass respectively, Nicolas Touron and Amy Lemaire’s collaborative sculptural works reconsider nature from a post-anthropocene perspective.

The collaboration between Lemaire and Touron has much to do with time, humanity, and nature. Their work exists in the past and future at the same time, and is concurrently of flora, fauna, and technology. Lemaire, a glassblower, utilizes a craft invented over two thousand years ago, while Touron uses the contemporary technology of 3D-modeled and printed porcelain. As a result, their works include  thousands of years of human innovation as they regard the effects of these achievements and technology on nature. In this sense, their technique and subject matter parallel one another: Lemaire and Touron reveal, in the physical sense and the philosophical, what nature can look like in sync with humans and their technology. 

The works flawlessly combine two materials produced by each one of the duo. The ceramics created by Touron function as the base of the sculptures. Often resembling medieval fortresses or futuristic spaceships, they  function as a stage for the story to be told. Lemaire’s glass work, colorful and even more organic in form, is whimsical and delicate much like nature itself; sometimes they look like otherworldly plants or fungi, sometimes perplexing figures or animals. They represent the actors in this theater. 

As an artist, Lemaire considers the role of technology as an accelerant in a multiplicity of narratives that weave together virtual and physical worlds. Touron, who also uses storytelling as a crucial part of his art, constructs narratives without specific beginnings or ending, and in this way become visual embodiments of the living process of storytelling. Together, their work tells a tale of our time: an ongoing story of growth, coexistence, and time.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Amy Lemaire is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. An explorer at heart, her work reveals an interest in currency systems, material language poetics and the production of histories. As an artist, Lemaire works with glass, photography and digital fabrication. Lemaire received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA from Pratt Institute. She was selected for residencies at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, NY, The Museum of Art and Design, NY, and UrbanGlass, NY, among others. Her latest exhibitions include Through A Glass, Darkly at The Delaware Contemporary, DE,  River of Shadows at Heller Gallery, NY, Glass Age at Helena Anrather Gallery, NY, and more. Lemaire’s work has been included in exhibitions nationally, and is in many private and museum collections. 

Nicolas Touron is an artist and storyteller working in ceramics and painting. As an artist he creates engaging and complex work that, through concepts of movement, evolution, characters, and motifs, suggest larger narratives. Touron received his BA from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and his MFA from the School of Visual Arts, NY. In 2001, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship. His recent solo exhibitions include Objects & Surfaces at Sculpture Space NYC, NY, Parallel Universe at Detais Gallery, Paris, France, and Artificial Moment, ID Center, New York, NY. His work was shown by institutions such as the Kunsthall Rotterdam, The Pera Museum, Istanbul, The Royal Society of American Art, and Sculpture Space NYC, among many others. Touron’s work has been featured prominently in the USA as well as internationally in art galleries, museums and public spaces. His work is in numerous private collections around the world. Touron is currently in Residency at the Harvard Ceramic Program.

All works of art are for sale, and the proceeds will benefit the artist. For more information, please contact: info@sarahcrown.com |  www.sarahcrown.com

All the ceramic works are 3D printed with the generous support of Sculpture Space NYC.