Interview about the solo exhibition, art and life with Undercurrent:
https://undercurrent.nyc/podcast/2021/1/26/habby-osk
The live Artfare moderated by Carolina Wheat is now on the Artfare YouTube channel:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A3JK-2VuotA
Proximity and Distance brings together artworks with intrinsic values of wholeness and time, giving hope during the historical turning point of a worldwide crisis. Featuring Berlin and New York-based artists Isabelle Borges, Carson Fox, Axel Geis, Anna Grath, Katherine Jackson, Stella Meris, Habby Osk, and Paul Wesenberg, the exhibition focuses on the shared belief that rapidly changing times require a new search for artistic language—one that offers calm and resilience in the face of the complexities of our lives.
February 28 – March 28
https://www.kunstraumllc.com/single-post/proximity-and-distance
| Habby Osk’s work rests upon basic physics – balance, movement and time. These concepts are the concrete medium for her artistic practice where objects challenge the limits of balance and stability. Through sculpture, photography, and installations, Osk reveals a tension between movement and stillness by placing objects in seemingly unstable positions, capturing a moment of perpetual precarity. These compositions of fragility emphasize the potential for destruction yet live within an equally mirrored state of harmony. Osk employs a range of materials to underpin the relationship between time and physicality. Emphasizing the fragility within stability, Osk uses devices that are considered sturdy, such as concrete or wood for a singular point of structural support, delicately balanced to uphold the whole piece, the object of strength being then the most fragile component. For her photographic work, she casts food such as jello, guava, and gelatin. As a malleable substance with a temporary existence, they physically and conceptually invite destruction and mortality. In combining permanent objects such as wood and plaster with impermanent materials such as food, wax and plastic bags, Osk can capture the series minuscule incidents that surmount to change, whether it be the momentary life of destruction or the transformation of physicality over time. Habby Osk is born and raised in Akureyri, Iceland, and lives and works in Brooklyn. Habby’s work has been exhibited around the world, including solo exhibitions in the US and Iceland, thereof two museum solo exhibitions at Kopavogur Art Museum (IS) and Akureyri Art Museum (IS), and numerous group exhibitions such as Lorimoto Gallery (US), Soho20 (US), Tina Kim Gallery (US), Grimmuseum (DE) and Re:Rotterdam (NL). She holds a MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York and a BFA in Fine Arts from the AKI ArtEz University of the Arts in The Netherlands. Habby is a three time recipient of the prestigious Artists’ Salaries from the Icelandic Centre of Research, currently a recipient of a 12 month Artists’ Salaries’ grant. She has as well received grants from The Icelandic Art Council Fund, The Icelandic Visual Art Copyright Association and MUGGUR. Habby is currently a resident at ISCP – International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York (11/1/19-4/30/20) and has been an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center (US), Hafnarborg Museum (IS) and P:142 (DE). |
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Undercurrent is excited to launch the 2021 program with Connectivity, a solo exhibition by New York-based Icelandic artist Habby Osk. Grounded in sculpture, her work is an ideal segue from the imbalances of last year finding us a new foothold with the start of a new one. Connectivity will run from January 29 until March 7. https://undercurrent.nyc/