NADA NY 2023
Ánima Correa
Booth 1.16
May 18-21
548 W. 22nd Street NYC

PRESS: ARTnews “The Best Booths at NADA New York 2023” | UP Magazine “A Tale of Two Art Fairs: Frieze and NADA”

Hunter Shaw Fine Art is pleased to participate in NADA NY 2023 with a solo presentation by Los Angeles based interdisciplinary artist Ánima Correa. The presentation features a suite of new paintings created specifically for the fair, exploring the literal and figurative associations of optics and extraction. The centerpiece, “Coriolis” (2023) is the artist’s largest work to date, and depicts a massive, spiraling school of fish illuminated by the eerie glow of 550 nanometer green light, the most common and effective frequency of light used in commercial fishing. Correa deploys this particular shade of green throughout her works as a signifier of post-Y2K culture, alluding to surveillance, greenwashing, and toxicity simultaneously. “Coriolis” is complemented by four medium-scale paintings from Correa’s ongoing series of obsidian reflection vignettes. This body of work is rooted in scrying, the divinatory practice of gazing into a reflective surface to reveal emergent images. Obsidian is a volcanic rock frequently used in these practices. Within this body of work, Correa draws parallels between the scrying stone and the rare earth materials that are mined to fabricate smart phones and computers, while simultaneously alluding to how we view these technologies as “black mirrors.” These works examine algorithmic bias and the subjectivity of truth: images sourced from mining landscapes and popular media surround the obsidian stone, their reflections corrupted and distorted in its surface, closing the circuit from imagined to real, concrete to abstract.