Indirect references to the figure allow subject hood to dissolve. The art object becomes a democratic site for considerations of selfhood, memory, and touch to take place. All works present various ways that touch can psychologically impact us. Abstraction allows us to re-evaluate simple - even what can be considered mundane or lower experiences - as opportunities to become in touch with our humanity and our individual essences.

[1] Korzybski, Science and Sanity, 1933.

CYDONIA would like to thank Mindy Solomon Gallery their support

Osamu Kobayashi was born in Columbia, SC in 1984. He has exhibited widely in the US and abroad including solo exhibitions at the Greenwich House in New York, AplusB Contemporary Art in Italy, and John Davis Gallery in New York. He was recently awarded the Hassam, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Purchase Fund from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is a recipient of the Morris Louis ’32 scholarship. Osamu currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Kobayashi just recently completed a summer residency at Lepsien Art Foundation in Germany.

Sydney Williams holds a BFA in Ceramics from Texas Christian University. CYDONIA hosted her first solo exhibition in December 2016. In October 2017, Williams debuted the Stack series based on architecture and children’s building blocks at Art Toronto. CYDONIA had the pleasure to debut her Structure series during her second solo show in March of 2018. Her works are collected throughout the US and Canada. The artist lives and works in Fort Worth, Texas.

Barb Smith received a MFA in Sculpture from Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson. She has exhibited throughout North America inclusive of solo exhibitions at Páramo in Guadalajara, the Mesa Art Center in Arizona, and Purdue University in Indiana. Additionally she has participated internationally in residencies such as Offshore Residency in Sardinia and Corsica, Artists-Invite-Artists Residency at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Maine, and the A.I.R. Gallery Summer Residency in New York. Smith has been awarded The Peter S. Reed Foundation Individual Artist Grant, the Art Purchase Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and has been nominated for Women to Watch from National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Museum of Arts and Design. The artist lives and works in Queens, New York.

Impressions opens on Saturday, September 14, 2019 and runs until Sunday, October 25, 2019. The public is invited to an opening reception on Saturday, September 14 from 6PM to 8PM. CYDONIA is a contemporary art gallery. Our programming is committed to co-operating with artists whose practices reflect conceptual research. We approach art as a cultural good related to reciprocity, praxis, and discourse. For more information, please contact info@cydoniagallery.com, call 682-207-2699, or visit www.cydoniagallery.com