At first glance, Vian Sora’s works look like cosmic implosions. Flat, organic forms act as viewfinders for boisterous textures that resemble bubbling, oozing acid; wet, dense cement; and hazy cosmic dust. But Subduction, the artist’s first solo exhibition at Luis De Jesus
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles is very pleased to announce VIAN SORA: Subduction, the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition will be on view from June 4 through July 16, 2022. An opening reception will be held on Saturday,
The capacity to reside in joy and terror in equal measure gives Sora’s paintings their unsettling power, a brutal acknowledgment that creation coexists with destruction.
The first thing the eye sees is the tiny rivulets of blue, the happy hue of a robin’s egg or a bright morning sky, undulating dots and dashes that wind around the other pools of color: swathes of violet and
Louisville painter Vian Sora’s process is all about adding and subtracting. She first applies spray paint, acrylic or pigments to her canvas and, then, uses materials including Velcro and glass to strip color away. https://wfpl.org/destruction-rebirth-louisville-painter-vian-sora-finds-inspiration-in-berlin/
In the year since gallerist and curator John Brooks first had the idea for the group show We All Declare For Liberty: 2020 and the Future of American Citizenship, the world shifted in a way that feels dramatic and uncertain. Yet the
One of the showcase pieces in KMAC Museum’s inaugural triennial survey of contemporary art in Kentucky (up through December 1, 2019) is a trio of sumptuous, pretty, scary paintings by Vian Sora, an artist currently living and working in Louisville,
The first thing the eye sees is the tiny rivulets of blue, the happy hue of a robin’s egg or a bright morning sky, undulating dots and dashes that wind around the other pools of color: swathes of violet and
The abject has often been used throughout art history to describe the horrors of bodily waste: excrement, mucus, menstrual blood, the wound. As a term, it means to cast out or down, and as a theory, it can be simplified
Artist Vian Sora Finds a Home in Abstraction This is part of why Vian Sora believes miracles happen: It was 2003, just after the fall of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Sora, a promising young artist who’d had successful shows in Baghdad,