PARK VIEW / PAUL SOTO @ Gallery Platform
Mark McKnight & Victoria Colmegna
Park View / Paul Soto presents a two-person showing by gallery artists Victoria Colmegna and Mark McKnight. The two work distinctively, yet their respective feminist and queer positions overlap and we highlight that here by focusing on the idea of the “skin.” For the two, the skin is a material surface produced culturally and environmentally. Its genesis as a receptor surface for its surroundings from life until death makes the effects of culture and environment indistinguishable from the persona or the physical body. Rather than re-creating hierarchies of knowledge to parse differences within this life process, both explore the self and their immediate surroundings through a fluid, horizontal relationship to materiality, one focused on pleasure and pain. Colmegna turns her gaze inward, and McKnight his outward. The debased is as full of spirit as the pure from their related standpoints.
Participating galleries: 1301PE, Bel Ami, Jeffrey Deitch, Matthew Marks Gallery, Jenny’s, Park View/Paul Soto, Philip Martin Gallery, Various Small Fires, Vielmetter Los Angeles