MEMBER NEWS:

Sfera Louis at LIV Gallery

We’re excited to announce that Brown Bears Studios Rockella Space Member Sfera Louis is opening her debut solo exhibition at LIV Gallery in Manhattan!

New York, NY — LIV Gallery proudly presents Superposition: The Possibility Gaze, the highly anticipated first solo show from Brooklyn-based painter Sfera Louis.

• Dates: May 10th – June 7th
• Opening Reception: May 10th, 6 pm – 11 pm
• Closing Reception: June 7th, 6 pm – 11 pm
• Location: LIV Gallery, 424 E. 9th Street, New York, NY 10009
• Gallery Hours: 11 am – 11 pm daily

About the exhibition

Superposition: The Possibility Gaze explores the malleable nature of reality and the viewer’s key role of focal choice in the viewing of art and its impact on consciousness. This show features select pieces from a larger body of work done in an instinctive painting process and art theory called “spherealism”; an inclusive feminist response to cubism and surrealism.

About Sfera

Sfera Louis is a painter and sculptor living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Unconventionally raised by leftie intellectuals both off the land and in the city, she first broke ground as an underground party maven in the punk, funk, and club kid scenes, generating hundreds of events nationwide. With music as a primary influence, sub-culture was her sculptural medium of choice. Sfera now pours decades of that ephemeral art life into her studio practice, resulting in a body of work brimming with wild colorful stories and existential riddles born from a life fully lived through art of all kinds.

Sfera works in an automatic free-from process playing with spatial and linear puns and intentionally preventing any single narrative or path from dominating. The lack of hierarchical centering is meant to evoke a shift in consciousness or relaced awareness, as the viewer must reconcile the apparent contradictions by allowing them to coexist simultaneously.

To dive deeper into Sfera’s work and artistic journey, head over to our People page and check out the in-depth interview we conducted with her in 2023.