Lucitations: Shawn Camp and Vy Ngo
Opening Reception:
Friday, April 11, 7-10 pm
Exhibition runs April 11 through May 10
Artist Talk
Third Thursday, April 17, 6-8
ICOSA Collective presents Lucitations, an exhibition from Shawn Camp and Vy Ngo exploring the connections between the creative process, the intersection of the organic and subconscious, and the various states of energy felt when we are present in our surroundings.
Lucitations is a meditative state achieved through the act of creation, where the painter and the canvas engage in intuitive dialogue. As artists, Camp and Ngo are conduits for decision-making, who allow their internal dialogue to guide them into creative flow. At the core of their process, prioritization on remaining fully present facilitates much deeper conversations between order and chaos, expansion and focus, trust and surrender.
Shawn Camp creates atmospheric passages through an ethereal color palette, first with structured boundaries, then by intuitively adding many layers of soft strokes. Each subsequent layer contributes to the formation of subtle shimmering, prism-like dimensions that invite us to question place and time in conversation with the art itself. Through translucence and refraction, these surfaces explore the mystery of light, matter, and space. Vy Ngo’s paintings are based on her physical and spiritual journeys into various geological terrains, reflecting on the energy around her and meditative states achieved by connecting with self in nature. Through the languages of color and movement, Vy attempts to hold onto the impermanent nature and dream-like states of memory.
Within Camp’s large-scale paintings exists a powerful flow between form and formlessness that creates fractal views of reality. Ngo’s vibrant abstract landscapes present dynamic perspectives that oscillate between organic vs organized and tangible vs transcendent. Lucitations creates an opportunity for you to contemplate and reflect on how you connect with yourself, your memories, your environment, and the broader human experience.