Former French Street Artist Koralie is currently having an extensive solo gallery show of paintings, sculpture and installation with Johnathan LeVine Projects in Jersey City, and her geisha is not hard to find – at least her sunny spirit is here.
Koralie. Detail. Indigo Blood Project. Jonathan LeVine Projects. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
The signature Japanese musical and dance entertainer she brought to the streets in the 2000s could be seen as an early influencer for these precise folkly patterned pieces – along with Russian nesting dolls, eastern European braided maidens, the occasional samuri.
Most striking as you walk through this colliding of patterns, colors, and laser cut texture, is the sense that symmetry can make order of the effusion; a series of rhythmically visual punctuations that almost become audio, almost dance.
Koralie. Detail. Indigo Blood Project. Jonathan LeVine Projects. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
The influences emanate from the childhood fantasies of ornamented cultural traditions including Japanese, Russian, and Hopi, but here they are trippily lifted and re-combined with one another through the ordered graphic vision of Koralie, detached from their heavier origins and free to make new friends.
Koralie. Indigo Blood Project. Jonathan LeVine Projects. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Koralie. Indigo Blood Project. Jonathan LeVine Projects. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Koralie. Indigo Blood Project. Jonathan LeVine Projects. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Koralie. Detail. Indigo Blood Project. Jonathan LeVine Projects. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Koralie. Detail. Indigo Blood Project. Jonathan LeVine Projects. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Koralie. Detail. Indigo Blood Project. Jonathan LeVine Projects. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Koralie. Detail. Indigo Blood Project. Jonathan LeVine Projects. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Koralie. Detail. Indigo Blood Project. Jonathan LeVine Projects. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Koralie. Detail. Indigo Blood Project. Jonathan LeVine Projects. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Koralie. Indigo Blood Project. Jonathan LeVine Projects. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Koralie. Indigo Blood Project. Jonathan LeVine Projects. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Koralie “Indigo Blood Project” Solo Exhibition is currently on view at the Jonathan LeVine Projects. Jersey City, NJ.
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