Pelavin Gallery is proud to announce a solo exhibition of recent work by Chinese-American artist, Rosa Ruey. The show is comprised of saturated mixed media collages in a variety of sizes. This will be Ruey’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, and in New York City.

Ruey’s work is sculptural in nature. She employs drawing and collage as a way to create fantastic structures and spaces on paper. This work is part of a new series that involves drawn and hand-printed elements that are collaged to build up whimsical machine-like structures. Ruey’s work is labor intensive with manic detail that constitutes an optimistic interpenetration of natural and industrial building blocks. The individual components that make up each piece—abstracted industrial and domestic forms—are meant to unravel the viewers associations with the objects in their environment. Each component is infused with a bright artificial hue referencing colors found in popular and contemporary culture. The combination of these saturated colors is a form of exaggeration that aids in placing the work in the realm of another world.

The Chrono-Particle Processor, one of the largest pieces in the show, was inspired by the artist’s obsession with time. It is a playful architectural model of a time machine. This time machine is not built to travel through time but rather to re-distribute time among individuals. The work looks at contemporary and possible future conceptions of space and time, and questions our use of the time we are “given.”

In this new body of work Ruey discusses humanity’s desire to control the uncontrollable by using the implications of large machines seeking physical truth such as the Large Hadron Collider. Fear, doubt and anxiety are just some of the emotions that we collectively experience in navigating hierarchical systems. This work proposes transforming that overwhelming energy into hopeful and playful systems while capturing the sublime magic that surrounds imagination.

Ruey received her Masters in Fine Art Sculpture from Slade School of Fine Art, London (UK) in 2005 and double B.A. with High Honors in Chinese and Communications from University of Santa Barbara, California in 1998. The artist’s work has been widely exhibited in galleries and museums in America, England, Morocco, Greece, Italy, Ireland and Taiwan—this past year the artist participated in an exhibition at The Bronx Museum, New York. Her work is included in such private and public collections as Ernst & Young and The Wonderful Fund and has been published in The Large Format in Contemporary Engraving (2004) edited by Silvia Ferrari and in Zink Magazine: Summer Issue (2009).

For more information please contact the gallery at 212 925 9424 or [email protected] Pelavin Gallery 13 Jay Street New York NY 10013