Untitled Art, Miami Beach
About the exhibition
Victoria Miro Projects is delighted to return for a second year to Untitled Art with a presentation of new and recent works by emerging female artists: Giuditta Branconi, Saskia Colwell, Konstantina Krikzoni, Tidawhitney Lek, Talia Levitt and Jemima Murphy, which celebrates recent and future Victoria Miro Projects.
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Editorials
The Los Angeles Times, A Long Beach-born painter captures the surrealism of the Cambodian American experience
Author: Carolina A. Miranda Published: 09 Nov 2023International Examiner, Q&A: Tidawhitney Lek reflects on visual language and Cambodia America
Author: Danielle Khlaeng Published: 14 Apr 2024La Voce di New York, ‘Deceive and Reward’: Talia Levitt Talks with Art Lovers through her Work
Author: Maurizio Casadei Published: 27 Oct 2023Hyperallergic, An Artist's Homage to Mundane and Macabre New York
Author: Annabel Keenan Published: 22 May 2023Juliet, Giuditta Branconi: Les Filles Terribles
Author: Edoardo Durante Published: 04 Oct 2022Victoria Miro Projects, Konstantina Krikzoni: Nymphidia
Published: 19 Sept 2024Malta Biennale 2024: Konstantina Krikzoni
Victoria Miro Projects, Jemima Murphy: Finding June
Published: 07 Jun 2024About the exhibition
Presented by
Victoria Miro Projects
Dates
04 Dec - 08 Dec 2024
Victoria Miro Projects is delighted to return for a second year to Untitled Art with a presentation of new and recent works by emerging female artists: Giuditta Branconi, Saskia Colwell, Konstantina Krikzoni, Tidawhitney Lek, Talia Levitt and Jemima Murphy, which celebrates recent and future Victoria Miro Projects.
Victoria Miro Projects, which launched in 2022, is an ongoing series of exhibitions by invited international artists on vortic.art. This year’s presentation highlights new and recent works by London-based artists Saskia Colwell, Konstantina Krikzoni and Jemima Murphy. Saskia Colwell will have a solo presentation at Victoria Miro, Venice in January 2025, following a residency this summer at the gallery’s Venetian studio. Colwell's charcoal on linen work presents a tightly cropped voyeuristic view of the female body, encouraging the viewer to reflect on their own psyche and the societal codes surrounding sexual desire.
Konstantina Krikzoni and Jemima Murphy both exhibited with Victoria Miro Projects this year. Shaped by her upbringing in Greece, Krikzoni’s paintings feature groups of female figures in scenes which seek to disrupt narratives within historical and classical paintings and writings to reconsider the relationship between women and nature. Identifying her works as reimagined landscapes, Murphy draws on the physicality of paint to examine and portray her own emotional experience.
The stand will also preview works by artists who will show with Victoria Miro Projects in 2025. Italian artist Giuditta Branconi paints on both sides of the canvas, incorporating rich imagery and quotations taken from historic European and contemporary Italian literature, exploring the intimacy of sibling relationships. Tidawhitney Lek uses glitter, acrylic and oil paint in large-scale compositions that examine her relationship to her family and upbringing as a first generation Cambodian American. American painter Talia Levitt’s trompe l’oeil painting contemplates the profound meaning of motherhood by referencing imagery from photographs, newspaper clippings, historical paintings and fabric.
Tidawhitney Lek
About the artist
Born in 1992 in California, USA. Lives and works in California, USA.
Tidawhitney Lek was born in Long Beach, California, USA in 1992. She completed her BFA at California State University, Long Beach in 2017.
Solo exhibitions include Living Spaces, Long Beach Museum of Art, California, USA (2023); My Walk, Taymour Grahne Projects, London, UK (2022); House Hold, Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles, USA (2022); and Reminiscing, Taymour Grahne Projects, London, UK (2021). Two-person exhibitions include What Will You Give?, Sidecar Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (2024) and Cultural Undertow, Luna Anaïs Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (2021). Group exhibitions include Prospect 2024, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, USA (2024); Spirit House, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA (2024); The First Taste, Anat Ebgi, New York, USA (2024); Cross Currents, Micki Meng, San Francisco, USA (2024); Made in L.A., Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA (2023); Ghost of Empires II, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK (2022); Loveline, Long Beach Museum of Art, California, USA (2021); and Fire Figure Fantasy, ICA Miami, Florida, USA (2021).
Lek’s work is in institutional collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, USA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA; K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong; Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida, USA; East West Bank Collection, Pasadena, California, USA; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, USA; and ICA Miami, Florida, USA.
Works presented in Untitled Art, Miami Beach...
Tidawhitney LekSolace Sisters, 2024
Tidawhitney LekFreeman St, 2024
Talia Levitt
About the artist
Born in 1989 in New York, USA. Lives and works in New York, USA.
Talia Levitt was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA in 1989, where she currently lives and works. She completed her BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, USA in 2011 and her MFA at CUNY Hunter College, New York, USA in 2019.
Solo and two-person exhibitions include Schmatta, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, USA (2023); Crossed Paths, F2T Gallery, Milan, Italy (2022); My Moon, ATM Gallery, New York, USA (2021); and Two Truths and a Lie, HESSE FLATOW, New York, USA (2020). Selected group exhibitions include The 7th Wall, Alice Amati, London, UK (2024); Reality Distortion Field: A Journey into Perceptual Realities, WOAW Gallery, Hong Kong (2023); Truth is Stranger, Adler Beatty, New York, USA (2023); Labor of Love, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, USA (2023); LUSH, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York, USA (2022); Moon in Venus, Bill Brady Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (2022); Double Trouble, Another Gallery, Paris, France (2022); Through a Glass, Darkly, Carl Kostyál, Milan, Italy (2022); and Tasting Menu, The Barns Art Center, Hudson Valley, New York, USA (2021).
Selected awards and residencies include TAC Residency, Monteverdi Marittimo, Italy (2023); New York Foundation of the Arts Painting Fellow (2021); MASS MoCA Assets for Artists Residency (2020); Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant (2019); and Skowhegan School Of Painting & Sculpture (2019).
Works presented in Untitled Art, Miami Beach...
Talia LevittI'm, 2024
Jemima Murphy
About the artist
Jemima Murphy was born in 1992 in London, UK. She lives and works in London, UK.
Jemima Murphy was born in London, UK, in 1992, where she lives and works. In 2023, she graduated from City & Guilds of London Art School. Murphy’s work was the subject of a solo exhibition atEdji Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (2023). Group exhibitions include A New British Modernity, Burberry Seoul Flagship, Seoul, Korea (2024); lbf & the lake, lbf contemporary, Muskoka, Canada (2024); Gesture & Form: Women in Abstraction, Almine Rech, New York, USA (2024); In The Know, Show, Green Family Art Foundation, Texas, USA (2024); Something Woman* This Way Comes, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland (2024); Beautiful Twisted Mind, Mint Gallery, Munich, Germany (2023); and Beyond Figuration: Then and Now, Gillian Jason Gallery, London, UK (2023).
Her work has been acquired by various public and private collections including Midas Collection, Los Angeles, USA; Green Family Art Foundation, Texas, USA; The Nixon Collection, London, UK; and The Scalpel Building Collection, London, UK.
Works presented in Untitled Art, Miami Beach...
Jemima MurphyBudding June, 2024
Jemima MurphyJune Study, 2024
Jemima MurphyPink Raptures, 2024
Konstantina Krikzoni
About the artist
Born in 1987 in Chalkidiki, Greece. Lives and works in London, UK.
Konstantina Krikzoniwas born in Chalkidiki, Greece in 1987 and lives and works in London, UK. She is a graduate of the Royal College of Art, London. Recent solo exhibitions include Nymphidia, Victoria Miro Projects, Online (2024) and Chamber, Newchild Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (2023). Two person exhibitions include Continuum at Frieze No.9 Cork Street, London, UK (2023). Recent group exhibitions include the Malta Biennale, Malta (2024); Afterdark, Newchild Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (2024); Disrupted Harmony, Public Service Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (2023); Hot Summer Pt. I, Galerie Julien Cadet, Paris, France (2023); and Hot Summer Pt. 2, Swivel Gallery, New York, USA (2023). She was an artist in residence at the Palazzo Monti in Brescia, Italy in 2023, culminating in the exhibition Shipping Address. In September 2024, Krikzoni participated in the Philippe and Marion Lambert Residency in Crete, Greece.
Krikzoni was shortlisted for the Chadwell Award 2022, London, UK. Other recent awards and scholarships include the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS, Athens, Greece (2021), and NEON Scholarship 2021/22, NEON Organization for Culture and Development, Athens, Greece (2021).
Her work is in the collection of the Yageo Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan, and the Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao, China.
Works presented in Untitled Art, Miami Beach...
Konstantina KrikzoniWeavers II, 2024
Konstantina KrikzoniWeavers I, 2024
Giuditta Branconi
About the artist
Born in 1998 in Sant'Omero, Italy. Lives and works between Teramo and Milan, Italy.
Giuditta Branconi was born in Sant'Omero, Italy in 1998. She completed her BA at the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino, Italy in 2020 and her MA at Brera Academy in Milan, Italy in 2023.
In 2022, Branconi had a solo exhibition, Les Filles Terribles, at LUPO, Milan, Italy. Group exhibitions include IOAMOTE, L'Arca - Laboratorio per le arti contemporanee, Teramo, Italy (2023); Salone d’Autunno, curated by Massimo Kaufmann, Galleria Giovanni Bonelli, Milan, Italy (2021); The Brief History of a new Perspective in Painting, curated by Alberto Zanchetta, Museum of Contemporary Art of Lissone, Italy (2021); and Sguardi Dall’interno dell’Accademia di Brera, curated by Marco Casentini, Andrea B. Del Guercio and Dany Vescovi, Lorenzelli Arte, Milan, Italy (2021).
Branconi’s work is in collections including Collezione Maramotti, Collezione Paneghini and Museo d'Arte Contemporanea of Lissone.
Works presented in Untitled Art, Miami Beach...
Giuditta BranconiMatilde (mi manchi), 2024
Saskia Colwell
About the artist
Born in 1999 in London, UK. Lives and works in London, UK.
Born in 1999 in London, where she currently lives and works, Saskia Colwell graduated from the Masters Painting Programme at the Royal College of Art in 2023. In 2022 she completed a BA (Hons) in Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art and, in 2018, the Foundation Year at the Royal Drawing School.
Her work has been included in several group exhibitions including LEDA and the SWAN: a myth of creation and destruction, curated by Minna Moore Ede and presented by Vortic in collaboration with Victoria Miro, London (2024), VAMPIRE::MOTHER curated by Jasmine Wahi in collaboration with Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles (2024), Conscious Unconscious at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (2023) and Summer Lovin’ curated by Joan Tucker and Henry Relph at Stems Gallery, Paris (2022). Colwell’s work is in a number of private collections.
Works presented in Untitled Art, Miami Beach...
Saskia ColwellV-Sign, 2024
Each Panel: 180 x 140 cm (70.87 x 55.12 in)
Freeman Street is where my first home was. It’s where it all began for me and my siblings. Home wasn’t far from the coastline, just a 10-minute drive to the bluffs. When my elders talk about those days, they remind me what it really was like. Our neighbourhood was notorious for gangs during the 80s and 90s. I didn’t know, I was little then. Not too long ago, my parents met my partner’s parents for the first time, and they chatted. My mom mentioned that we lived on Freeman Street and they responded, ‘That was a dangerous block.’ When I heard my partner’s mom say that, it was another affirmation for me. I grew up on Freeman Street in the ghettos of Long Beach, California.
Painting stickered signs is a motif or trope that I use often in my work. It’s a nod towards a subculture that thrives off of taking up space in this particular way. It points to a rebellious act with a play of notoriety in public spaces, like graffiti tagging. This particular ‘no left turn’ sign is located in the Arts District of Downtown Los Angeles. I was walking back to my car after finishing lunch when I saw it. Another nice one to paint, I thought. Won’t be the same tomorrow.
Image courtesy of the artist and Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York
Photo: Pietro Cisani
I was thinking about how much I still need my mom to hold me and how important that is to me. I will never let that go – this care between one woman and another. When I’m at my lowest, overwhelmed by uncontrollable feelings, my mother, her lap and arms, are among the few places that can calm me down. Then I thought about my sisters. I have three (older) Bong Srey. I thought it would be nice for them to hold each other, like how my mom does for me. To note, my mother rarely gave her loving affection to all of us. Her struggles kept her from spending that kind of time with us. There was a lot of miscommunication growing up, but we all understood she was our caring mother. So with that said, between us sisters, showing affection was also rare.
I had asked my sisters and my mom to pose for my work, that I would like to paint a composition in relation to mom, but in the end what I captured was the relationship between my sisters. I had them wear the Khmer garment that our mother had gotten tailored for us and used my parents’ backyard as the setting. I had each sister, one at a time, rest her head on our mother’s lap, sitting on the straw mat while mother sat upright on a bench. Each one exhaled in comfort, eyes closing, and energy humming as I took all the photo references I needed. One sister even said, ‘This feels so nice.’ Once that was done, I had them do the same with each other. My sisters used to be so close, but as we got older, it became harder for some reason. I blame miscommunication. No doubt that these two love each other, the ones in the painting. They’ve never left each other's side for their entire lives. And what I painted was how it was, the relationship still between the two. Bong Vann, in the blue, is the elder, and she is very much like my mom, while Bong Dah sits in consolation, a need we all share. I have another Bong Srey I would have loved to capture with the others, but the tension between them remains, and I could not convince her to join this experience of solace.
