Dualities
An exhibition exploring complementary dissonance in material, form and process.
Featuring
Michael Bartmann
Stanka Kordic
Katherine Stanek
Dualities will be on view at the Miami location of Stanek Gallery from January 25th through March 22nd, with an artist reception to take place January 25th from 6 – 9pm
Michael Bartmann, Exhale VII, 2024
Stanka Kordic, Birds Of A Feather, 2020
Katherine Stanek, Hope, 2009 - 2025
Stanek Gallery Miami is pleased to present Dualities, a three-person exhibition examining our domain over reality, memory, mind and matter. Featuring new work by Michael Bartmann, Stanka Kordic, and Katherine Stanek, the exhibition brings together a diverse group of artists weaving unique approaches to dialogue exploring process vs intention, decision vs. evolution and becoming vs belonging, while creating an intimate, contemplative space where reality and imagination intertwine to shape something entirely new.​​
Bartmann works in oil on firm support to create innately familiar, yet completely fictional industrial interiors forged from urban compilations found only in his mind to create a newly informed, forward-looking yet remarkably nostalgic reality. In his new collection, the window is a prominent character that serves as a metaphor for both time and space questioning barriers that separate. He satiates his appetite for color while expertly rendering these architectural compositions encouraging you to wander the empty spaces in your own recollection as well as in his two-dimensional world.
Internal Echo II, 2025. oil on cradled board, 30 x 24 inches
Stanek’s sculpture in concrete with exposed steel, bronze and other media demonstrate a masterful ability to create enigmatic depths that entice intrinsic and existential dilemma of what can be seen and what is hidden, what is ours by passage and what is fated. By allowing her work to be process driven, Stanek uses decisive destruction to incorporate fractures, fragments and the natural tendency of the material as part of her visual language, leaving room for questions, new perspectives and personal connections, merging and layering these different visual codes in works that seem simultaneously contemporary and classical.
Becoming Mask, 2019. concrete with metal, 22.5 x 8 x 8 inches.
Kordic’s figures are graceful experimentations of characters emanating through the space between imagination and nescience, holding you in their gaze as if coming or fleeting events are casting their light and shadows before them. Using oil on various supports, she fuses highly emotional moments with her visceral decisions as reactions to the evolving imagery. The protagonist is a feeling, an expression, an overwhelming sense of fragility in the attempt to create an experience and emotion rather than a specific person from her memory.
