Newman Popiashvili Gallery is pleased to present the two-person exhibition of Kören Beck Tomlinson & Nuria Fuster. It will be the first time these artists exhibit in New York. Kören Beck Tomlinson is a Minnesota based artist whose abstract paintings play on the tension between nature and artifice, the domestic and the scientific. Similarly, in Spanish sculptor Nuria Fuster’s works, everyday objects gain a new dimension once juxtaposed and exhibited on ‘pedestals’ of discarded urban materials.

In Kören Beck Tomlinson’s paintings, absence of defined narration provides her with the unique ability to connect to the viewer on an intimate level. It is here that her images seem able to imprint themselves on the mind, as if they were things we have seen and experienced before. The undetermined points of view and ambiguity of scale in her works make it seem that they were snapshots of a part of a great event, one that cannot be fully understood.

Nuria Fuster applies new context for common, everyday materials. An old tattered chair, a rusted bedspring, an unfinished door; these elements all become an integral part of Fuster’s precarious, yet carefully composed sculptures. An object, when placed on top of, next to or within another, transforms these once discarded materials, devoid of their original function, into an elaborate display of balance, intellect and ingenuity. These domestic architectures are, more often than not, results of the artist’s observations and searches throughout the urban world.

Nuria Furster is a Madrid based sculptor. She has exhibited at Marta Cervera Gallery in Madrid and has an upcoming solo show at Hamish Morrison Gallery in Berlin. Koren Beck Tomlinson graduated from Parsons School of Design. She has participated in group exhibitions at Gale Gates et al and Exit Art.